Projects and News
Amherst College Fellowship Award
Roger King was awarded a 2010-2011 Copeland Colloquium Fellowship in International Development. The award recognized past international work and offers the opportunity contribute to the life of the college while continuing to work on fiction and film projects on international themes. https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/colloquia/copeland_colloquium/2010
Talks by Roger King:
May 13, 2011, 9.30 am, 67 Coonz Street, Northampton: “Global Governance,” public talk at invitation of Five College Learning in Retirement Program, Great Decisions Discussion Series, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.
Nov 10, 2010, Amherst College: “The Development Game: Experiences with International Development in Fact and Fiction”
The MP3 of the talk is available at: https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/248490/original/Roger%2BKing.MP3 and the page Amherst College's audio and video events can be found here: https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/colloquia/copeland_colloquium/2010/recentevents
Events hosted by Roger King:
April 27, 2011 at 7:30 and April 28, 2011, at 4:00, 2011, Amherst College, Stirn Auditorium. Presention of “Revolucion,”
a new film made by ten of Mexico’s leading film directors to mark the centenary of the Mexican revolution. Organized in collaboration with the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival: http://www.umass.edu/film/mmff.html. The directors Mariana Chernillo and Amat Escalante will be present and a colloquium on the legacy of the revolution for present day Mexico and the world will begin at 6.00pm on April 28th, following the 4.00pm showing.
March 2, 2011, Enrique Rueda-Sabater, “The Future of the Internet and Global Economic Restructuring.”
Feb 10, 2011, Peter Matlon, “A New African Resurgence.”
Film
A Girl from Zanzibar
A feature film in development.
Sea Level
A script for the novel Sea Level is in progress.
Radio
Global Voices
I grew up surrounded by the sound of BBC radio, which is probably the best entertainment bargain in the world. It proved that, beyond news and music radio embraces the artistic possibilities of drama, comedy and documentary.
Global Voices is a project in collaboration with Dean Olsher (The Next Big Thing)to develop radio pieces that will take audiences into the intimacies and quirks of the daily lives of peoples around the world. Our proposition is that Americans mostly learn about ordinary people in distant places only as background to wars and disasters, and therefore miss the intimate fascination and to be found in normal lives. We would like to put that right. We are talking to a foundation about financing a trial run.