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CHAPEL HILL -- Fatou Bensouda, deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and former chief legal adviser to the president of Gambia, will speak tonight at UNC.
Bensouda, who will deliver this year's Hillard Gold '39 Lecture, will discuss "From Nuremburg to Darfur -- The Role of Criminal Justice in Reconciliation and Peace" at 7 p.m. in Gerrard Hall.
Entry to the free public lecture will be limited to UNC One Card holders until 6:40 p.m., after which seating will open to the public. A reception will follow.
Bensouda has been instrumental in investigating and prosecuting war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. She has championed the cause of child soldiers in Africa, spearheaded the prosecution of rape as a crime of war and drawn attention to international conflicts that have often gone unnoticed. Recently, Bensouda was involved in the controversial decision to bring an arrest warrant against Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, for his actions in Darfur.
In November 2009, Bensouda won the International Jurists Award for her contributions in the field of international criminal law.
The lecture is sponsored by the Distinguished Speaker Series of UNC Student Government and the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences. It is made possible by a gift from James Gold of New York City, who graduated from Carolina in 1972, and Jonathan Gold of Newtown, Pa., a 1975 UNC graduate. The lecture honors their late father, who graduated from Carolina in 1939.
Discussion to focus on war
CHAPEL HILL -- The commander of the U.S. Joint Forces Command and two military experts will discuss the civil-military implications of war and military operations in the 21st century at UNC.
The free public panel will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday in the auditorium of the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building on Pittsboro Street. It is part of a two-day conference sponsored by the curriculum in peace, war and defense in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences and the war studies department at King's College London, in partnership with the Triangle Institute for Security Studies.
Speakers for the panel will include:
n Gen. James Mattis, U.S. Marine Corps, commander of the U.S. Joint Forces Command. His command focuses on supporting current operations while shaping U.S. forces for the future. From 2007-2009, he also was the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation for NATO. As a major general, he commanded the 1st Marine Division during the initial attack and subsequent stability operations in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
n James Gow, professor of international peace and security and director of the International Peace and Security Programme at King's College. He has researched the Bosnian war and been an expert adviser to the U.K. Secretary of State for Defence.
n Hew Strachan, Chicele Professor of the History of War at All Souls, Oxford University. His research interests are in military history and strategy.
Lecture on 1965 movie 'Black Girl'
CHAPEL HILL -- Steve Nelson will explore the intersection of film and urban space in the 1965 movie "Black Girl" in a free lecture April 14 at UNC.
Nelson, associate professor of African and African American art history at the University of California, Los Angeles, will discuss "Leaving Dakar: Place and Privilege in Sembene's 'Black Girl' " at 5:30 p.m. in the Hanes Art Center auditorium. The center is off South Columbia Street near Franklin Street, beside the Ackland Art Museum.
Nelson will focus on how filmmaker Ousmane Sembene used Senegal's capital city, Dakar, to explore the tenuous nature of the Senegalese state and intercultural relationships in the 1960s. He will examine how Dakar stirs up a complex set of memories for both the colonizer and the colonized in the aftermath of Senegalese independence.
Nelson wrote "From Cameroon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture In and Out of Africa" (University of Chicago Press, 2007). He is working on a new book, "Dakar: The Making of an African Metropolis." He is a former reviews editor for Art Journal and former contributing editor for African Arts.
His talk is sponsored by the art department and the African Studies Center in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences.
UK music scholar to speak at UNC
CHAPEL HILL -- Iain Fenlon, a Renaissance music scholar from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, will speak at 7 p.m. April 15 at UNC.
Fenlon will discuss "Life and Death: Music and Ritual in Renaissance Venice." His free public talk in Gerrard Hall will be this spring's John W. Pope Lecture in Renewing the Western Tradition, based in the College of Arts and Sciences.
A professor of historical musicology and a fellow of King's College at the University of Cambridge, Fenlon researches music from 1450 to 1650, particularly in Italy.
His new book, "Piazza San Marco" (Harvard University Press, 2009), examines the history and evolving uses of the piazza (open square) at the heart of Venice.
Most of Fenlon's writings, some of which are in "Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy" (Oxford University Press, 2000), explore how the history of music is related to the history of society. He has written a study with James Haar, UNC professor emeritus of music, on the emergence of the Italian madrigal and the importance of its Florentine origins.
Fenlon also wrote "The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice" (Yale University Press, 2007).
Fenlon's talk is made possible by a gift to the college from the John W. Pope Foundation, established by the late John W. Pope Sr., a 1947 UNC graduate.
