BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Trumba Corporation//Trumba Calendar Services 0.11.6830//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Freer and Sackler Galleries|Talks and Lectures X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lecture: Fiona Tan and Venice DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100930T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100930T190000 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE DESCRIPTION:Saskia Bos\, dean of the Cooper Union School of Art and a ke y figure in European contemporary art\, discusses Tan’s work and her own experiences as curator of the Dutch Pavilion—a presentation of three pr ojects by Tan—at the 2009 Venice Biennale. CATEGORIES:Smithsonian Event,Talks and Lectures DTSTAMP:20100826T170614Z X-TRUMBA-CUSTOMFIELD;NAME="Event Type";ID=21;TYPE=Number:Smithsonian Eve nt X-TRUMBA-CUSTOMFIELD;NAME="Event Location";ID=10831;TYPE=SingleLine:Meye r Auditorium X-TRUMBA-CUSTOMFIELD;NAME="Related Exhibition";ID=10835;TYPE=SingleLine: Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall X-TRUMBA-CUSTOMFIELD;NAME="Categories";ID=11153;TYPE=CustomAsset:Lecture s & Discussions X-TRUMBA-CUSTOMFIELD;NAME="Venue";ID=11223;TYPE=CustomAsset:Freer Galler y UID:http://uid.trumba.com/event/90614624 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Little Girl of Hanoi DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101002T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101002T140000 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE DESCRIPTION:In person: William Belding\, Frederick Z. Brown\, Bill Marmo n\, Ron Nessen\, and Jonathan Rosenbaum\n\nFilmed amid the rubble of a r ecently bombed Hanoi\, this harrowing tale—of a girl searching for her s oldier father after losing the rest of her family during a bombardment—i s at once a powerful drama and a very rare look at life in the city duri ng the Vietnam War. In the words of film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum\, "th e film is remarkable not only for its sincerity and emotional directness \, but for its accomplished visual style." (Dir.: Hai Ninh\, Vietnam\, 1 974\, 72 min.\, B&W\, video\, Vietnamese with English subtitles)\n\nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion.\n\nPanelists:\n \nWilliam Belding is an adjunct professor at American University' s School of International Service. He was president and CEO of the Vietn am Veterans of America Foundation\, an international humanitarian organi zation that co-founded the International Campaign to Ban Landmines\, the winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. He also served as chief of staff of Common Cause. He was a Navy SEAL and served in Vietnam.\n\nFrederi ck Z. Brown is a visiting research scholar in the Southeast Asia stu dies program\, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies\, Johns Hopkins University. He is a retired State Department officer who s erved in Vietnam\, Laos\, and Cambodia from 1968–78. \n\nBill Marmon< /b> was a Time Magazine staff correspondent in Saigon from 1968 –71. He returned to Asia more recently as general counsel for MCI/Verizo n\, covering Vietnam. He continued to follow events in Vietnam as vice-p resident of the US ASEAN Business Council from 2008–2009. He is now reti red but works with the European Institute as managing editor of its onli ne journal. \n\nRon Nessen is Journalist in Residence at the Broo kings Institution\, a Washington thinktank. He served five tours as an N BC News correspondent covering the Vietnam War\, and was wounded while c overing a battle with the 101st Airborne Division. He later became Presi dent Gerald R. Ford's White House press secretary. In that capacity\, he announced the end of America's military involvement in Vietnam. His mem oir\, titled Making the News\, Taking the News\, will be publis hed in 2011.\n\nJonathan Rosenbaum was head film critic for the < em>Chicago Reader from 1987–2008\, and has contributed to many majo r film publications\, including Film Comment and Cahiers du cinéma. An authority on world cinema\, among his books are Mov ing Places: A Life at the Movies (1980)\, Placing Movies: The P ractice of Film Criticism (1995)\, Movies as Politics (199 7)\, Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons (2004)\, and Goodbye Cinema\, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition (2010). CATEGORIES:Smithsonian Event,Talks and Lectures DTSTAMP:20100902T114128Z X-TRUMBA-CUSTOMFIELD;NAME="Event Type";ID=21;TYPE=Number:Smithsonian Eve nt X-TRUMBA-CUSTOMFIELD;NAME="Event Location";ID=10831;TYPE=SingleLine:Meye r Auditorium X-TRUMBA-CUSTOMFIELD;NAME="Co-sponsor";ID=10999;TYPE=SingleLine:Embassy of Vietnam\, Washington\, D.C. X-TRUMBA-CUSTOMFIELD;NAME="Categories";ID=11153;TYPE=CustomAsset:Films X-TRUMBA-CUSTOMFIELD;NAME="Venue";ID=11223;TYPE=CustomAsset:Freer Galler y UID:http://uid.trumba.com/event/90614267 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gallery Talk: Remember\, Recollect\, and Revive: Time and Fiona Tan DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101002T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101002T140000 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE DESCRIPTION:Curator Carol Huh reveals how Tan’s videos and photographs e xplore the power of images to construct memories and provide a compellin g dimension to understanding contemporary Asian art and culture. CATEGORIES:Smithsonian Event,Talks and Lectures DTSTAMP:20100826T151015Z X-TRUMBA-CUSTOMFIELD;NAME="Event Type";ID=21;TYPE=Number:Smithsonian Eve nt X-TRUMBA-CUSTOMFIELD;NAME="Event Location";ID=10831;TYPE=SingleLine:Subl evel 1 X-TRUMBA-CUSTOMFIELD;NAME="Related Exhibition";ID=10835;TYPE=SingleLine: Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall X-TRUMBA-CUSTOMFIELD;NAME="Categories";ID=11153;TYPE=CustomAsset:Gallery Talks & Tours X-TRUMBA-CUSTOMFIELD;NAME="Venue";ID=11223;TYPE=CustomAsset:Sackler Gall ery UID:http://uid.trumba.com/event/90614748 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR