Friday, June 1—1:15–2:45 p.m.
"Will the Real Terrorists Please Stand Up?":
A Film and Lecture on US-Cuba Relations and How the Changes Occurring in Cuba Are Affecting US Higher Education.
This session will present a documentary film portraying 50+ years of US-Cuba policy through the irony of terrorism, used as a major Washington policy weapon. In the film terrorists and former government officials offer explanations for their actions, as do the Cubans countering the efforts -- and we see the victims as well. Long after the end of the Cold War, the reason given for US policy, Washington persists in its effort to punish Cuba for its disobedience. In the context of this long history and culture of violence, the filmmaker, Saul Landau, will discuss the film, the state of US-Cuban relations, the changes taking place in Cuba, and how these changes are affecting US higher education. He has visited Cuba numerous times and is a fluent speaker of Spanish.
Saul Landau is an internationally-known scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker on foreign and domestic policy issues. Landau's most widely acclaimed achievements are the over forty films he has produced on social, political and historical issues, and worldwide human rights, for which he won the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting, and the First Amendment Award, as well as an Emmy for "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang."
Saul Landau, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and Vice Chair, Institute for Policy Studies—Washington, D.C.; Professor Emeritus, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; former Hugh O. Bounty Chair of Applied Interdisciplinary Knowledge, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Bob H. Suzuki, Ph.D., President Emeritus, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona—Pomona, California; former Vice President for Academic Affairs, California State University, Northridge; and Recipient, ACE’s 2010 Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award
(Session Coordinator and Moderator)
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