Violence, Torture And Cinema: From The Middle East To Latin America And Back

This event is brought to you by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies at AUB. The lecture is based on a project that compares Latin America and the Middle East by exploring the role of documentary and fiction films in reconstructing collective identities in the wake of armed conflicts and political transitions. Dr. Riccardo Bocco is a Professor of Political Sociology at the Anthropology and Sociology Department of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. He has also been the Director of the French Centre for Research on the Contemporary Middle East based in Amman (Jordan) and Research Director at the Graduate Institute for Development Studies in Geneva. For the last 30 years, Dr. Bocco's main area of work has been the Near East with a particular focus on Jordan, Israel/Palestine and Lebanon. His present research focuses on peace-building processes and 'Dealing with the Past' policies in the MENA region. Note: Event will be in English [facebook event]