World Civilizations Film Series

Bring your own popcorn and join us monthly on Friday Afternoons for a film with an International flair and topic.

Each film will be hosted by History Department faculty. Each will begin with an historical setting explanation, and each will be followed by a faculty led discussion.

Friday, April 20
3 PM in Eppley Auditorium
Host: Dr. Sarah Whitten

Vision Filmed in 2009,Vision is a profoundly inspirational portrait of Hildegard von Bingen, a woman who has emerged from the shadows of history as a forward-thinking and iconoclastic pioneer of faith, change, and enlightenment. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed twelveth-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist. She was determined to expand the responsibilities of women within her order, while simultaneously risking ex-communication by proclaiming that she received visions from God.

Filmed in the original medieval cloisters of the German countryside, the musical score contains adaptions of some of the nun’s original compositions.

This the final film of our series.