UW Simpson Center: Children of War

Conferences & Symposia: Children of War

Symposium

March 4 - 5, 2005
Smith 102
Open to the public.
Admission is free.

Program (10k PDF)

Children of War brings Spanish Civil War veterans and survivors together with psychologists, artists, literary scholars, archivists, and children's rights activists to explore the transformation of trauma and memory in art and expression.

Highlights include a keynote address on March 4 at 5:00 pm, with testimonials by survivors, interdisciplinary panel discussions, and a performance work by Elyse Pineau on March 5.

Course

Poetry and Politics:
Art and Literature of the Spanish Civil War
Spanish 491/Comp Lit 421
Professor Anthony L. Geist

Children of War is organized and curated by Anthony Geist (Spanish & Portuguese Studies and Comparative Literature)

Exhibition

They Still Draw Pictures

Children’s art in wartime
from the Spanish Civil War to Kosovo.



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Professor Anthony Geist appears on the March 17th episode of KCTS Connects to discuss the exhibition.

March 2nd through April 1st
Tuesday-Saturday, 12-4
Jacob Lawerence Gallery
Art Building
(206) 685-1805

This acclaimed and timely exhibition curated by Anthony Geist features features children's drawings from the refugee camps of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and subsequent twentieth-century war zones as well documentary prints by photojournalist Robert Capa. The children's drawings serve as testaments to the distructive power of violence and the creative powers of imagination and expression.