Sunday, August 10, 7:30pm

Harris Theater, 809 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh 15222

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This groundbreaking 1959 French New Wave film by Alain Resnais explores the extreme traumas of war through the lives of a Japanese architect and a French actress. Set in Hiroshima after the end of WWII, the couple—lovers turned friends—intertwine their stories about the past while pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.

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Q & A with Patricia M. DeMarco Ph.D. and Susan Smith, Ph.D.

Following the 90-minute film, we will have a Q & A with Patrica DeMarco and Susan Smith  to address how the legacy of the bomb impacts us today.

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Patricia DeMarco is a Pittsburgh author with a doctorate in Biology from the University of Pittsburgh. She has spent a fifty-year career in energy and environmental policy and now writes and lectures in the fields of sustainability, energy and environmental policy, and natural history. She served as Executive Director of the Rachel Carson Homestead Association then as Director of the Rachel Carson Institute at Chatham University, where she now holds an appointment as Senior Scholar and Adjunct Faculty. 

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Susan Smith has been an active volunteer for many years working for peace and justice through the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the Raging Grannies, her church, and other local organizations. Her recently published book, Learn More than You Teach: Becoming a Leader in a Diverse World, relates some of the challenges she has faced at the intersection of education, culture, and languages. She is fluent in both Spanish and French, serving now as a part-time interpreter for Global Wordsmiths.