{"680962":{"#nid":"680962","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Film screening: \u0022The Volunteers\u0022 \u2013 Mountain Rescue Brings Us Home","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe documentary \u003Cem\u003EThe Volunteers\u003C\/em\u003E explores big philosophical, ethical, and political issues through\u202fan unlikely subject: mountain rescue. This example of volunteering offers a positive, inspiring way of thinking about civic life that can help us transcend political differences and build more sustainable liberal democratic societies\u2014volunteering to build character, community, and society. Take a journey with historian Mark S. Weiner and explore the connections between two mountain rescue organizations, one near Seattle, Washington, and other in Tyrol, Austria. These connections run\u202fthrough\u202fWorld War\u202fII, Nazism, and the translation of a book. \u003Cem\u003EThe Volunteers \u003C\/em\u003Eis a philosophical, poetic, and historical meditation that grows from mountain experience and leads to lessons for today. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EAbout the Filmmaker\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMark Weiner has served as a Fulbright Scholar in Akureyri, Iceland; Salzburg, Austria; and Uppsala, Sweden. He received an A.B. from Stanford University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University.\u202fHe is the author of \u003Cem\u003EThe Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals about the Future of Individual Freedom\u003C\/em\u003E\u202f(Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013), \u003Cem\u003EBlack Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste\u003C\/em\u003E\u202f(Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), and \u003Cem\u003EAmericans without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship\u202f\u003C\/em\u003E(New York University Press, 2006). He is co-editor of the exhibition catalog \u003Cem\u003ELaw\u0027s Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection\u202f\u003C\/em\u003E(2017), which is based on a critically acclaimed rare books exhibition at the Grolier Club\u202fin New York City. All these works have won awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESponsored by:\u003C\/strong\u003E Scheller College\u0027s Law Ethics Area, the Office of the Associate Vice Provost of the Arts, the Ethics, Technology, and Human Interaction Center (ETHICx), and the School of Literature, Media, and Communication.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA screening of \u003Cem\u003EThe Volunteers\u003C\/em\u003E followed by a Q\u0026amp;A with \u0026nbsp;Mark Weiner, documentary filmmaker and professor of law, and Sidney I. Reitman, scholar emeritus at Rutgers Law School.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A screening of \u0022The Volunteers\u0022 followed by a Q\u0026A with  Mark Weiner, documentary filmmaker and professor of law, and Sidney I. Reitman, scholar emeritus at Rutgers Law School."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2025-03-06 15:12:38","changed_gmt":"2025-03-06 15:15:45","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2025-03-12T18:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2025-03-12T20:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2025-03-12T20:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2025-03-12 22:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2025-03-13 00:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2025-03-13 00:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"John Lewis Student Center, Walter G. Ehmer Theater (formerly Atlantic Theater), 3rd Floor","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1792","name":"Arts and Performance"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Hoffmann\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:michael.hoffmann@pubpolicy.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emichael.hoffmann@pubpolicy.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}