[Tlc] Genocide and Justice in Cambodia photography

[justinm at ucr.edu]

Paul Robeson Gallery is proud to present

Night of the Khmer Rouge: Genocide and Justice in Cambodia
January 16 - February 22, 2007

Night of the Khmer Rouge: Genocide and Justice in Cambodia
examines photographic documents from 'the killing fields' of
the Khmer Rouge and the infamous Tuol Sleng prison. The Rumble
Room features a series of films and documentaries, including
The Flute Player, Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy, Samsara, and
S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine. The exhibition is
organized by Alexander Hinton and Jorge Daniel Veneciano in
partnership with the Documentation Center of Cambodia.


Exhibition reception and premiere screening: Wednesday, January 31
Screening and discussion of Behind the Walls of S-21: Oral
Histories from Tuol Sleng Prison (Doug Kass, producer-director
and Wynne Cougill, editor) with Alexander Hinton, 5 - 6 pm in
the Campus Center Multipurpose Room (second floor); Exhibition
reception, 6 - 8 pm in the Gallery

Symposium: Thursday, February 1
Featuring invited scholars and keynote speaker John Ciorciari,
2:30 - 5 pm in the Gallery

Gallery hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 10 am - 5 pm and
Wednesday 12 - 7 pm
Paul Robeson Gallery events are free and open to the public.

Catalog available with essays by Youk Chhang, Meng-Try Ea,
Alexander Hinton, and Jorge Daniel Veneciano. Gallery tours
and art-making workshops are free and open to NJ high schools;
please contact the gallery for scheduling.

Funding for Night of the Khmer Rouge was generously provided
by the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute, under its
Documents and Confronting the Past Affinity Group Project.
Paul Robeson Gallery programs are funded in part by grants
from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of
State and the Cultural Programming Commission, Rutgers-Newark.
Support for Documentation Center of Cambodia's operations is
provided by the US Agency for International Development and
the Swedish International Development Agency. Publicity
assistance for this program is provided by the NJ Commission
on Holocaust Education.


Announcement image credit: Photograph of Ham Hong,
Documentation Center of Cambodia, Phnom Penh.


Paul Robeson Gallery
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
350 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., First Floor
Newark, New Jersey 07102

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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
2617 Humanities Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu