Public film screening: ³Wrong Side of the Bus² ³Melbourne psychiatrist Sidney Bloch returns to South Africa, the country of his birth, with his teenage son. Sid has been plagued by guilt for ³not doing enough² when segregation was introduced during the apartheid era more than 40 years ago. Now he¹s in search of forgiveness. As a young medical student Sid Bloch sat with black South Africans on the wrong side of the bus¹ when segregation was introduced, but his protest was short-lived and his guilt over his inactivity is compounded by his heritage: he's the son of Lithuanian-Jews persecuted by the Nazis. More than 40 years later he reunites with his South African fellow students, and meets political activists and ex-prisoners including a hero of the freedom movement Albie Sachs. These encounters challenge and help him to make peace with his own conscience.² ABC Compass The Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM) invites you to be part of the audience for the screening of ³Wrong Side of the Bus² and join in the discussion following the film with Professor Sidney Bloch, Professor Raimond Gaita, Dr Danielle Celermajer, and the film¹s producer Rod Freedman. This event is free and will take place in the Wallace Theatre at the University of Sydney on Tuesday June 22nd at 6pm. Discussants: Sidney Bloch is currently Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Adjunct Emeritus Professor in the Centre for Health and Society, and Senior Fellow, School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Melbourne. Professor Bloch is also Honorary Senior Psychiatrist at St Vincent¹s Hospital, Melbourne. He was chief editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry for 13 years and Associate Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry for 10 years. Professor Bloch has published 13 books several of which have been brought out in new editions and/or have been translated (Japanese, Spanish, Hindi, Russian, Ukrainian Italian, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Turkish, German, Dutch, Portuguese and Hebrew): Russia¹s Political Hospitals (1977) won the Manfred Guttmacher Award of the American Psychiatric Association in 1978 for the best book published in forensic psychiatry; Soviet Psychiatric Abuse (1984); An Introduction to the Psychotherapies 4th Edition (2006); What is Psychotherapy? (1982); Psychiatric Ethics 4th Edition (2009); Therapeutic Factors in Group Psychotherapy (1985); Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry 3rd Edition (2007); The Family in Clinical Psychiatry (1994); Codes of Ethics and the Professions (1994);Understanding Troubled Minds (1997) (a new edition in preparation); Family Caregivers: Disability, Illness and Ageing (1988); Family-focused Grief Therapy (2002); and An Anthology of Psychiatric Ethics (2006) which won a ³commendation prize² from the British Medical Association in 2007. Raimond Gaita is Foundation Professor of Philosophy at ACU and Professor of Moral Philosophy at King's College London. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Professor Gaita's main research interests and publications have been in ethics. He has also worked and written on scepticism, on the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychology, and on aspects of political philosophy. He has contributed extensively to public discussion about reconciliation, collective responsibility, the role of moral considerations in politics, genocide and the alleged uniqueness of the Holocaust, and the plight of the universities. His publications include A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love & Truth & Justice, Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, The Philosopher¹s Dog, and the Quarterly Essay Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics. But he is perhaps best known to the general reader as the author of the prize-winning memoir, Romulus, My Father which was recently made into an award winning film starring Eric Bana. Danielle Celermajer is director of the Asia Pacific Masters of Human Rights and Democratisation, a European Union funded project establishing networked postgraduate human rights education across the Asia Pacific Region. Her research focuses on transitional justice and the question of how contemporary states and societies can deal with past violations, collective responsibility, apology and forgiveness, the relationship between human rights and religious norms and institutions and human rights education. She has held teaching positions at the University of Sydney and Columbia University and received her Ph.D. in political theory (summa cum laudae) from Columbia University. Prior to entering academia, she was Director of Policy at the Australian Human Rights Commission, where she authored numerous reports on Indigenous human rights and was principal speech writer to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner. Her book, Sins of the Nation and the Ritual of Apology, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009 and she is editor of a forthcoming collection on Hannah Arendt, Power, Judgment and Political Evil, to be published by Ashgate in 2010. Rod Freedman - Writer, Director, Producer. An independent filmmaker, Rod Freedman¹s films have screened in dozens of international film festivals, winning international and Australian awards, including two AFI nominations for Uncle Chatzkel. With partner Lesley Seebold, Rod¹s company, Change Focus Media produces documentaries, corporate, promotional and educational videos. With Film Australia, Rod has made Uncle Chatzkel (1999, Producer/Director), the Everyday Brave Series (2001, Series Producer, Best TV Series, Tudawali Awards) made with Indigenous directors, Welcome to the Waks Family (2001 Co-Producer, 2nd Unit Director), The Winners Guide to the Nobel Prize (2006 Co-Executive Producer) three series of Australian Biography Series (2002, 2005, 2007 Series Producer/Director), and Change the World in 5 Minutes (2007 Executive Producer). Independent Films include: Wrap Me Up in Paperbark (1999 Producer), One Last Chance War Criminal (2000 Producer/Director, winner of 3 USA awards) Crossing the Line (2004 Producer, Best Documentary, Social & Political, Atom Awards), It Takes a Village (2008 Producer/Director), Stay Strong (2008 Producer/Director), Strong and Deadly (2008 Producer/Director), Looking for a Monster (in production). Regards Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine Lindy Gaze Administration VELiM - Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine Level 1, Medical Foundation Building K25 University of Sydney NSW 2006 Tel: + 61 2 9036 3405 Fax: + 61 2 9036 3436 Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Website: www.cvelim.org <http://www.cvelim.org/> ------ End of Forwarded Message
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