Filmscreening with Q+A. Join American documentary filmmaker, scholar of American studies, and emeritus professor of constitutional law Mark S. Weiner as he screens and answers questions about his new feature-length indie documentary essay The Volunteers: Mountain Rescue Brings Us Home (Hidden Cabinet Films, 105 minutes). The film explores big philosophical and political issues through an unlikely subject: mountain rescue—specifically in the connection between two mountain rescue organizations, one in Seattle, Washington, the other in Tyrol, Austria. This connection ultimately runs through World War II, and Nazism, and their lessons for civic life today. Weiner's underlying premise is that mountain rescue offers a positive, inspiring way of thinking about civic life, especially the relation between local attachment to place and universal human solidarity, that can help transcend political differences.
Mark S. Weiner (A.B., American Studies, Stanford University; Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University; J.D., Yale Law School) is professor emeritus at Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey. A scholar of the public humanities, he co-curated "Law's Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection" for the Grolier Club in New York, whose catalogue was awarded the Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award from the American Association of Law Libraries. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to Akureyri, Iceland and Salzburg, Austria, and he served as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies in Uppsala, Sweden.
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer, Prorektorin für Internationales und Diversität der Universität Tübingen
Grußwort: Dr. Niels Weidtmann, Director College of Fellows
Ort: d.a.i.-Saal (Karlstr. 3, 1. OG)
Eintritt frei
In Kooperation mit der Universität Tübingen und dem College of Fellows
