Month: January 2022

September 2020 Film: PBS’s Égalité for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution Speaker: Professor Brenda Gayle Plummer 

January 2021 Film: BBC Documentary: The Unwanted- The Secret Windrush Files Speaker: Professor Joan Anim-Addo, Goldsmiths, University of London Resources: Windrush Children and Broken Attachments  

December 2020 Film: Frontline: The Vaccine War and COVID’s Hidden Toll Speaker: Dr. James Conway

October 2020 Film: Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War Speaker: Anton Shirikov

November 2020 Film: Earth Speaker: Professor Ria Banerjee, Guttman Community College Resources: India Partition lesson plans and documents Videos, discussion questions, suggested readings, and additional educational resources 

February 2021 Film: Persepolis Speaker: Professor Roozbeh Shirazi, University of Minnesota Resources

March 2021 Film: Ngaben: Emotion and Restraint in a Balinese Heart Speaker: Ni Luh Gede Sri Pratiwi Resources Study Guide

In this APTLI lecture (July 2021), Palestinian Filmmaker Baha’ AbuShanab discusses his film experience and filmmaking in Palestine. His documentary, The Living of the Pigeons, will be covered. The film is “A haunting glimpse of the …

April 2021 Podcast series: Language Latte: A Podcast for World Language Teachers Speaker: Kate Grovergrys, Madison Area Technical College Resources: Guide to Foreign Language Podcasts Toolkit: Using Film to Teach Languages Using Podcasts to Teach English