The Clowes Center Film and Speaker Serieshighlights various dimensions of the theme of violence through public screenings and discussions of selected feature films and documentaries. The series began in 2009 focused on the themes of memory and reconciliation (see below).

Rethinking Citizenship, Democracy and Activism: local-global entanglements.

• Fall 2011 - Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 2:30-4:30pm
  This is What Democracy Looks Like
  Directed by Jill Friedberg and Rick Rowley. Post screening discussion with Lance Bennett (UW Communications/Political Science Faculty) and current participants of Occupy Seattle/veterans of WTO 1999
• Winter 2012 - Thursday, February 16, 2012, 2:30-4:30pm The Future of Food Post screening discussion with Heather Day (CAGJ).  At Allen Auditorium

• Spring 2012 - Thursday, May 3, 2012, 7:00-8:30pm (provisional date) 23rd and Union. Post screening discussion with Director, Rafael Flores.  At the Langston Hughes Center.

The opinions expressed by the speakers in this series are theirs alone, and do not reflect the opinions of the University of Washington or the Clowes Center.

Past Clowes Center Film and Speaker Series:

2010-2011 - Silence, Violence, Voice: animals, justice, and the politics of advocacy

2009-2010 - Paths of Terror and Truth: Violence, Memory, and the Politics of Reconciliation