[Peace-discuss] AWARE letter of support for CSAMES Illinois Humanities Council Application

[Stuart Levy]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 08:10:33PM -0500, Karen Medina wrote:
> Sure.
> Do we know that the films don't perpetuate the idea that US military needs
> to invade countries in order to free  women oppressed by those we oppress?
> 
> -karen medina

We don't know for sure.  There's no proposed list of films that I know of --
this is at the grant-proposal stage.  But having seen past CSAMES programs,
I wouldn't really expect them to take that tack.

> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com>wrote:
> 
> > YES re AWARE letter of support, and you can also add that there's support
> > and sponsorship by AWARE Films if you wish -- we are kinda two entities.
> >  --Jenifer
> >
> > --- On *Tue, 9/28/10, Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>* wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
> > Subject: [Peace-discuss] AWARE letter of support for CSAMES Illinois
> > Humanities Council Application
> > To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
> > Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 12:06 PM
> >
> >
> > Any problem with AWARE saying that we'd support CSAMES for a series of
> > film screenings?  The series title they'd mentioned was:
> >
> >     "Beyond the Looking Glass: Cinematic Reflections on
> >      Women in Middle Eastern and South Asian Societies."
> >
> > They're not seeking monetary support, but asking that we'd
> > promote the films & help bring people to them.
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from "Williams, Angela Selena" <
> > aswillms at ad.uiuc.edu <http://mc/compose?to=aswillms@ad.uiuc.edu>> -----
> >
> > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:56:17 -0500
> > From: "Williams, Angela Selena" <aswillms at ad.uiuc.edu<http://mc/compose?to=aswillms@ad.uiuc.edu>
> > >
> > Subject: AWARE letter of support for CSAMES Illinois Humanities Council
> >     Application
> > To: "slevy at ncsa.illinois.edu<http://mc/compose?to=slevy@ncsa.illinois.edu>"
> > <slevy at ncsa.illinois.edu <http://mc/compose?to=slevy@ncsa.illinois.edu>>
> >
> > Dear Stuart,
> >
> > Last November, you wrote a letter of support for the Center for South Asian
> > and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES) grant application for our proposal
> > "Beyond the Looking Glass: Cinematic Reflections on Women in Middle Eastern
> > and South Asian Societies" for a Public Engagement grant.  Unfortunately, we
> > were not awarded this grant, but CSAMES is now applying for a grant from the
> > Illinois Humanities Council for the similar film screenings.  Would AWARE
> > like to support this new grant?  If so, then you could just alter the
> > original letter to the current date and change the language to read
> > "Illinois Humanities Council" instead of "the UIUC Office of the Vice
> > Chancellor for Public Engagement."
> >
> > If you do not have the original letter, I can scan it in and email it to
> > you.  We would need to have it by Friday, Oct. 8.  Please let me know if
> > AWARE would be willing to support this proposal again and if you have any
> > further questions, I'd be happy to address those.
> >
> > All best,
> > Angela
> >
> > Angela Williams
> > Program Coordinator
> > Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
> > 223 International Studies Building, MC-489
> > 910 South Fifth Street
> > Champaign, IL 61820
> > 217-333-2258 office
> > 217-265-6399 fax
> > aswillms at illinois.edu <http://mc/compose?to=aswillms@illinois.edu><mailto:
> > aswillms at illinois.edu <http://mc/compose?to=aswillms@illinois.edu>>
> > www.csames.illinois.edu<http://www.csames.illinois.edu/>
> >
> >
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
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> karen medina
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