JFK50: KENNEDY NOW

JFK50: KENNEDY NOW

What is the legacy of JFK? Beyond controversy and nostalgia, what does the Kennedy Presidency mean today?

Issues concerning global conflict resolution, world peace, nuclear arms, political leadership.

A presentation in film and discussion

with Featured Comments by John Shattuck (Rector and President, Central European University; former Chief Executive Officer, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation; former Ambassador to the Czech Republic; former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor).

Screenings from:
"13 Days" (New Line Films)
"Virtual JFK: Vietnam if Kennedy Had Lived" (Koji Masutani)
"Be... Kennedy... Be Khruschev..." (The Armageddon Letters")

Discussants:

Sandra Ristovska, Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University; documentary filmmaker and a PhD candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores the role of video in public discourse and policy deliberations with a particular focus on human rights video advocacy.

Peter Almond, Producer, "13 Days," Virtual JFK...", Consulting Producer, "The Armageddon Letters".

4:15 Screening

6:15 - 7:00 Discussion

Seating is limited.