[Itself] The Corporation - A Screening (fwd)

[anita chan]

THE WEATHERHEAD CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS CANADA SEMINAR
Presents a private screening* of the 2004 documentary
THE CORPORATION
with
JOEL BAKAN
Writer/Co-Creator
4-7 p.m. - Monday, May 3
Rooms 2 & 3 - Harvard Faculty Club
Cosponsored by the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School
*PLEASE NOTE: This event is free, but seating is limited.  Please
contact the Seminar for reservations
canada at wcfia.harvard.edu  (617) 495-3671

One hundred and fifty years ago, the corporation was a relatively
insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic, and pervasive
presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy, and the
Communist Party in other times and places, the corporation is today's
dominant institution. But history humbles dominant institutions. All
have been crushed, belittled, or absorbed into some new order. The
corporation is unlikely to be the first to defy history. In this complex
and highly entertaining documentary, Mark Achbar, co-director of the
influential and inventive Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the
Media, teams up with co-director Jennifer Abbott and writer Joel Bakan
to examine the far-reaching repercussions of the corporation's
increasing preeminence. The film, winner of the Sundance Film Festival
Audience Award in World Cinema-Documentary, is based on Joel Bakan's
bestselling book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit
and Power (Published by Simon & Schuster) and is a timely, critical
inquiry. Featuring illuminating interviews with Noam Chomsky, Peter
Drucker, Milton Friedman, Michael Moore, Vandana Shiva, Howard Zinn, and
many others, THE CORPORATION charts the spectacular rise of an
institution aimed at achieving specific economic goals as it also
recounts victories against this apparently invincible force.

Joel Bakan is professor of law at the University of British Columbia,
and an internationally recognized legal scholar. A former Rhodes Scholar
and law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of
Canada, he has law degrees from Oxford, Dalhousie, and Harvard. His work
examines the social, economic, and political dimensions of law, and he
has published in leading legal and social science journals as well as in
the popular press.

The Canada Seminar is off the record, free and open to the public, and
chaired by Professor Rosemary J. Coombe, the William Lyon Mackenzie King
Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, and Canada Research Chair in Law,
Communications, and Cultural Studies.  For more information, contact
Program Coordinator Helen Clayton at: Canada at wcfia.harvard.edu (617)
495-3671.

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs  1033 Massachusetts Ave.,
Cambridge, MA  02138
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/seminars/canada/schedule.asp
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