Crossings screening at Northwestern University
April 21, 2023, 2:00 - 6:30 PM CST Event date:
Harris Hall, 1881 Sheridan Road, Room 107 and 108, Evanston, IL
Join us for a film screening and panels on Deann Borshay Liem’s “Crossings” (2021), which documents the peace activism of “Women Cross DMZ,” a group of international women peacemakers who walked across the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea to forge a path toward peace and reconciliation. In “Crossings,” a group of international women peacemakers, including renowned activists Gloria Steinem and Christine Ahn, sets out on a risky journey across the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, calling for an end to a 70-year war that has divided the Korean peninsula and its people. The challenges the women face, the obstacles they overcome, and the solidarity and trust they build as they forge a path to peace with their Korean sisters, is an inspiring story of bridge-building and collective action.
The film screening will be accompanied by a scholar panel and a Q&A panel with the filmmaker and activist. International feminist peace organizing efforts is a form of energy generated by the longer efforts to bring peace to the Korean peninsula. As part of the Kaplan Institute’s Energies Dialogue, the event will address how the organizing efforts intersect with the artistic and scholarly energies surrounding Women Cross DMZ and Korean American organizers who have worked hard to sustain a lively and engaged community of diasporic organizers and international feminist peace activists. How do we approach and recreate the energies of past direct actions towards future ones to end militarization and war in the region? Given militarism’s global environmental toll as one of the largest polluters, and the complex eco-system that has developed in the DMZ, how might we consider direct actions of Women Cross DMZ as a conservational effort towards a greener future?
