The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality and the Anthropocene presents
The Land Beneath Our Feet
A film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman
Followed by a conversation with Gregg Mitman & Donna Haraway
Monday January 9, 2017
5:30-7:30PM
Digital Arts Research Center 108
The Land Beneath Our Feet follows a young Liberian man, uprooted by war, who returns from the USA with never-before-seen footage of Liberia’s past. The uncovered footage is embraced as a national treasure. Depicting a 1926 corporate land grab, it is also an explosive reminder of eroding land rights. In post-conflict Liberia, individuals and communities are pitted against multinational corporations, the government, and each other in life-threatening disputes over land. What can this ghostly footage offer a nation, as it debates radical land reforms that could empower communities to shape a more diverse, stable, and sustainable future?
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Co-sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research, Institute of the Arts and Sciences, the Center for Creative Ecologies, the Science and Justice Research Center, and the Center for Emerging Worlds