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Front Picture: Pak Sŏk-chŏng, Workers of Japan and Korea Unite! in Puroretaria bijutsu (Proletarian Art), no.2 (1932); Excerpted from Emiko Kida, “Japanese-Korean Exchange within the Proletarian Visual Arts Movement” in Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 14.2 (2006): 495-525
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Upcoming Events
THE MAKING OF...
A DISCUSSION WITH THE FILMMAKER
Fri. May 16 3:00 – 5:00 pm Cobb 107
Hosted by the Art and Politics of East Asia Workshop With generous support from the Center for East Asian Studies, the Council on Advanced Studies, & the Committee on Japanese Studies Refreshments will be offered.
Atomic Mom is a documentary portrait of Pauline Silvia, a Navy biologist who worked in the Atomic Testing program in Nevada in the 1950’s. “Operation Upshot-Knothole,” a series of 11 detonations, was designed to glean information about weaponry, firing procedure, radiological damage, and civil defense. Pauline witnessed firsthand these atomic detonations, and she tells stories of feeling the blasts from a so-called safe distance and then going into ground zero to collect mice, the biological samples she would use for her research experiments. She has now decided to break her decades long silence with her daughter, filmmaker M.T. Silvia, and share her complex feelings about her work—work that included testing with dogs. What emerges from this mother-daughter tête-à-tête is a stunning revelation of a scientist’s work during the Cold War, and a rigorous questioning of the ethical and moral questions that are raised by science and technology. The film will be an important tool that will provoke public discussion and an exchange of views on the legacy of the Atomic Bomb on the world, on our nation and on our personal lives. Atomic Mom is being produced by Smartgirl Productions, with support from the San Francisco Film Arts Foundation. http://www.atomicmom.org/ Persons with disabilities who may require assistance should contact Nicholas Albertson (nea@uchicago.edu) or Jae-Yon Lee (jaelee@uchicago.edu). |
