Peace and Conflict Studies

Join the fireside chat in the McBride Gathering Space of the Numen Lumen Pavilion about Elon's efforts to create an inclusive campus and disrupt bias and hate in our community. 

Join us for the next film in the series:

Peepli [Live] - a dark satirical Indian comedy (2002, 95 min.)

Tues, Feb. 25 @ 7:00 pm. in LaRose Digital Theater, Koury

Discussion with Prof. Jason Kirk, political science/int'l studies

Croatian film critic, prominent LGBT activist and media personality will host a screening and discussion of the first Croatian LGBT film, 'Fine Dead Girls.'

MIMA SIMIĆ: Croatian writer, film critic, activist, media personality, and Croatian LGBT person of the decade.  Mima will talk on "LGBT Politics and Activist Strategies of Media Subversion,” discussing how she and other activists and organizations have used strategies of media subversion to affect public and social attitudes on homosexuality and gender in Croatia. Katherine McFarland Bruce, Elon visiting assistant professor of sociology, will join Mima and compare and discuss LGBT activism in the United States, specifically the South. 

Spaces are still available for the Study USA Winter Term program "Wealth & Poverty"

Witness for Peace speaker Anibal Perez talks about environmental and social justice in Colombia. 

Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. in LaRose Digital Theater, Koury Business Center

Thursday, Nov. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Numen Lumen Pavilion.

"An important exploration of the complex psychology of mass murderers.” -Journalist Chris Hedges

“I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade... it is unprecedented in the history of cinema.” –Documentarian Werner Herzog  

“A Masterpiece – an examination of institutionalized violence, guilt on individual and national scales, and the role of cinema to both shape and reflect our darkest impulses.” –Village Voice