UNC Asheville and the Center for Diversity
Education will host the national traveling exhibit
"Hiroshima-Nagasaki: Images and Stories from Eyewitness Accounts"
October 1-30 in UNC Asheville’s Karpen Hall Lobby. The exhibition is
free and open to the public. However, due to the graphic nature of
the images in this educational exhibit, neither the exhibits nor the
events are recommended for children.
Three free events will be held in conjunction with the exhibit.
-- Ralph Hutchinson will deliver a lecture on "Seeking True Security
in the Nuclear Age" at 12:20 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, in UNC
Asheville’s Laurel Forum. Hutchinson is the coordinator of the Oak
Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
-- A film screening and discussion led by the UNC Asheville student
chapter of Amnesty International will be held at 12:20 p.m. Tuesday,
Oct. 21, in UNC Asheville's Laurel Forum.
-- A screening of "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb" will be held at 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31,
in UNC Asheville's Highsmith University Union Grotto. This 1964 film
satirizes the Cold War and the doctrine of mutual assured
destruction. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress deemed
the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation
in the National Film Registry.
"Hiroshima-Nagasaki: Images and Stories from Eyewitness Accounts"
features 30 large posters depicting scenes of the U.S. bombing of
the cities in 1945. The exhibit, which includes graphic imagery from
before and after the blasts, is an initiative of the Hiroshima Peace
Memorial Museum. The museum advocates for the peaceful disarmament
of all nations possessing nuclear weapons by increasing citizen
awareness of the effects of nuclear weapons. The exhibit is part of
101 exhibits on view across the nation.
Founded in 1995, the Center for Diversity Education encourages
conversation along the lines that often separate communities by
focusing on ethnic, cultural and religious diversity through
exhibits, road shows and staff development programs. The Center has
created 11 traveling exhibits about Buncombe County and Western
North Carolina on such themes as desegregations, immigration,
religious pilgrimage, World War II, genocide and globalization.
UNC Asheville’s Karpen Hall Lobby, located on the main floor of the
building, is open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday-Friday. For more
information about these events, contact the Center for Diversity
Education at 828/232-5024 or
dmiles@unca.edu. Additional information is available online
at www.diversityed.org.
