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CAPFEST: Last Train Home, 2009

Last Train Home (2009) is a documentary about Chinese immigrant workers who leave the industrial cities to return to their rural homelands for the New Year holiday. Lihong Kulikoff will provide an introduction and moderate a Q&A afterward. Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by the Global Capitalism Initiative and funded by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.

CAPFEST: The Organizer, 1963

The Organizer (1963) is an Italian film set in 19th century Turin that follows the events of a labor activist who helps a group of textile workers strike. Dr. Thomas Peterson will provide an introduction and moderate a Q&A afterward. Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by the Global Capitalism Initiative and funded by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.

CAPFEST: Modern Times, 1936

Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936) examines the human consequences of industrialization during the Great Depression. Dr. Jon Dawson will provide an introduction and moderate a Q&A afterward. Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by the Global Capitalism Initiative and funded by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.

CAPFEST: Bread and Roses, 2000

Bread and Roses (2000) examines the struggles of immigrant workers in Los Angeles to form a union. Dr. Patricia Richards will provide an introduction and moderate a Q&A afterward. Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by the Global Capitalism Initiative, funded by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.

Food Chains (documentary film) at CINÉ

The UGA Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the UGA History Department present this special one-night only screening of FOOD CHAINS: THE REVOLUTION IN AMERICA'S FIELDS, a powerful and shocking expose about what feeds our country, from the producers of FOOD INC and FAST FOOD NATION. This powerful true story of one small group of workers overcoming corporate greed to end slavery and abuse in America’s fields will inspire you to demand your food be fair!

Jonathan Levy — Corporate Personality Revisited

Jon Levy is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University. His first book, Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America (Harvard UP, 2012), has been widely reviewed in the popular press and in academic journals and was awarded some of the most prestigious awards in the historical profession, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, the Ellis W. Hawley Prize, and the Avery O. Craven Award.

Guest Lecture: Ari Kelman

Ari Kelman, the McCabe Greer Professor of History at Penn State University, will present a program on his recent award-winning book, A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand CreekA Misplaced Massacre has been the recent recipient of the Avery O. Craven Award, the Bancroft Prize and the Tom Watson Brown Book Award.

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