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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">You are cordially invited to the free screening of documentary film
<i>Lessons in Dissent</i>, on <b>10 March 2015 (Tuesday), 4.30pm to 6.30pm</b>, at the Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room (Room 106), The University of Melbourne (on Swanston St). Details of the film and event are included below and in the flyer
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Schoolboy Joshua Wong (nominated for
<i>Time Magazine</i>'s Person of the Year 2014) dedicates himself to stopping the introduction of National Education, and a showdown with the government seems inevitable. Microphone in hand, and still in his school uniform, he leads 120,000 protesters into
battle.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Meanwhile, former classmate Ma Jai fights against political oppression on the streets and in the courts. Having dropped out of school and dedicated himself to the social movement,
he endures the persecution suffered by those not lucky enough to be protected by the media’s glare.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Lessons in Dissent catapults the viewer onto the streets of Hong Kong and into the heart of the action: confronting the viewer with Hong Kong’s oppressive heat, stifling humidity
and air thick with dissent.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">The film will be introduced by Shiau Ching Wong, who is writing her PhD thesis in the School of Culture and Communication on the anti-National Education movement in Hong Kong. The
screening will be followed by a video-linked discussion with Matthew Torne, director and writer of the film, and Avery Ng, activist and Vice-Chairman of the League of Social Democrats, and moderated by Associate Professor Fran Martin</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">This event is sponsored by the Screen & Cultural Studies Program, School of Culture & Communication, University of Melbourne, with support from the Research Unit in Public Cultures.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">For further information please contact Associate Professor Fran Martin (<a href="mailto:f.martin@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">f.martin@unimelb.edu.au</span></a>)
or Shiau Ching Wong (<a href="mailto:shiauw@student.unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">shiauw@student.unimelb.edu.au</a>).</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">We look forward to seeing you there!</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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