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Film Screening & Director Talk: “I, Too”

Name: Film Screening & Director Talk: “I, Too”
Start: 2024-01-29T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-01-29T19:00:00-05:00
Location: FedEx Global Center #1005

January 29 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Join CES for the 2024 EU Film Festival! From January 26-29, in FedEx GEC 1005, we’ll be screening films and hosting discussions with UNC faculty that speak to contemporary challenges facing Europe, the EU, and the transatlantic relationship. These events are CLE Credit Eligible! Parking is available in the GEC deck during the screenings.

Trailer

On January 6, 2021, armed insurrectionists besieged the United States Capitol in the name of patriotism. To some, it was an unexpected and shocking attack on democracy. To others, it was a noble attempt to rescue a nation on the brink of collapse. For Carol Anderson, the insurrection was a predictable coda to more than two centuries of American mythology. What happens, she asks, when we discover that the history we teach our children is comprised of fables not facts; when the gulf between soaring rhetoric and cynical policy is too wide to ignore; when white supremacy is allowed to thrive? In I, Too, we embark on a journey to shine a light on stories that reveal how we reached this inflection point in American history, as we strive to narrow the gap between who we say we are as a nation…and who we actually are.

Faculty Discussant

Tony Silberfeld is Director of Transatlantic Relations at the Bertelsmann Foundation. He joined the Bertelsmann Foundation in April 2014. As director of the Transatlantic Relations program, he oversees the design and execution of projects covering a range of topics in the Euro-Atlantic sphere including politics, economics and social challenges. Tony joined the Foundation after seven years with the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office where he was head of political and public affairs at the Northern Ireland bureau. He also served as the Northern Ireland government spokesman in the Americas and advised Northern Ireland’s government ministers on political developments in the United States, Canada and Brazil. Prior to his tenure at the embassy, Tony spent several years as a foreign policy advisor in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. He also spent time in the private sector in the international team of Booz Allen Hamilton. Tony has a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Denver and a bachelor’s degree from Tulane University.

Priscilla Layneis Professor of German; Adjunct Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies; and Director of the Center for European Studies. Priscilla’s first book, White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture, is forthcoming April 2018 with the University of Michigan Press. In this book, she examines how, following WWII, German artists often associated white, rebellious male characters with black popular culture, because black culture functioned as a metaphor for rebellion. Priscilla is currently working on her second book, Out of this World: Afro-German Afrofuturism, which focuses on Afro-German authors’ use of Afrofuturist concepts in literature and theater. In addition to this project, some of the broader themes she is interested in are German national identity, conceptions of race and self/other in Germany, cross-racial empathy, postcolonialism, and rebellion.

The EU Film Festival is cosponsored by the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Romance Studies, and the UNC Film Studies program.