Gillespie Forum Presents
UPCOMING EVENT
Mr. Josh Fox & Film screening of Gasland
EVENT LOCATION: JNelly Goletti Theatre, Student Center, Marist College
DATE: April 4, 2012
TIME: 7:00 pm
Order of Event: Film screening of Gasland, followed by a question and answer period with Mr. Josh Fox, documentary filmmaker and Academy Award-nominee for the movie Gasland. This is a gripping, timely, and necessary film about the largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history. In 2008, Fox received a letter from a natural gas company interested in leasing his family’s land that sits atop the Marcellus Shale
in Milanville, PA for drilling. Disturbed by the letter, he embarked on an odyssey to glean as much information as possible about natural gas drilling in the US—with movie camera in hand. The result is a powerful film about”fracking”, short for hydraulic fracturing which is the propagation of fractures in a rock layer caused by the presence of a pressurized fluid in order to create new channels in the rock which can increase the extraction rates and ultimate recovery of fossil fuels.
Throughout the filming, Fox reached out to scientists, politicians and gas industry executives and ultimately found himself in the halls of Congress as a subcommittee, discussing the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act, “a bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to repeal a certain exemption for hydraulic fracturing.” The film is known for its mix of gripping narrative, heightened imagery and its commitment tosocially conscious themes and subjects.
UPCOMING EVENT
Alan Steinweis, Becoming a Professional Anti-Semite: Three Biographies from Nazi Germany
EVENT LOCATION: James and Betty Hall Theatre, Dutchess Community College
DATE: April 17, 2012
TIME: 7:00 pm
Professor Alan Steinweis specializes in the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Art, Ideology and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts; Studying the Jew: Scholarly Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany; and Kristallnacht 1938. He is also the series editor of the American edition of the Comprehensive History of the Holocaust, a monograph series sponsored by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust research and commemoration authority of the State of Israel. This event is also sponsored by Dutchess Community College and supported by the Jewish Federation of Dutchess County.
