International Week for the Elimination of Discrimination

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Date: 
March 16, 2010 - 12:00 - March 17, 2010 - 20:30
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Room: 
Octagon, Popper Room, Auditorium
Event type: 
Event audience: 
CEU host unit(s): 
Human RightS Initiative (HRSI)

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Information Table
Venue: Monument Building, Octagon

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.: Racial Discrimination and Diversity: a panel discussion on the current situation of racial discrimination and diversity in Hungary
Venua: Monument Building, Popper Room

  • Lorincz Marcell (Szubjektiv Ertekek Alapitvany)
  • Eszter Kurtan (NEKI - Legal Defense Bureau for National and Ethnic Minorities)
  • Andras Kovats (Menedek - Hungarian Association for Migrants)
  • Angel Ivanov (ERRC - European Roma Rights Centre)

9:00 p.m.: Film Screening: Ghandi
Directed by Richard Attenborough, 1982, 188 min.
Venue: CEU Dormitory, Prague Room

It was Richard Attenborough's lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi to the screen. When it finally reached fruition in 1982, the Oscar-winning Gandi was one of the most exhaustively thorough biopics ever made. It chronicles the life of Indian political leader and guru of nonviolent resistence Mohandas K. Gandhi whose moral courage inspired his nation to win independence from Great Britain. Winner of multiple Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, and Actor for Ben Kingsley's leading performance.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

6:00 p.m.: Film Screening: Crash
Directed by Paul Haggins, 2004, 115 min.
Venue: Faculty Tower, Auditorium

Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the white district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist white veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealist younger partner, a successful Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with the racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more.