{"id":27953,"date":"2013-11-21T10:07:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T17:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=27953"},"modified":"2013-11-21T10:07:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T17:07:57","slug":"conference-to-examine-themes-of-the-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/conference-to-examine-themes-of-the-hunger-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference to examine themes of &#8216;The Hunger Games&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second installment of the <i>Hunger Games<\/i>\u00a0trilogy hits the big screen this weekend with the release of <em>Catching Fire<\/em>, and NAU&#8217;s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is hosting a conference to explore the book and movie series\u2019 themes.<\/p>\n<p>The conference kicks off with a screening of the first <em>Hunger Games<\/em> film at 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, in Cline Library Assembly Hall. Faculty and student panel discussions and presentations begin at 9:10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 25, and will examine several themes including race and stereotyping, psychology and media violence, political symbols and post-traumatic stress disorder. The day&#8217;s events will conclude with a Hunger Banquet hosted by NAU\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/SBS\/CSI\/Welcome\/\">Civic Service Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The full conference agenda is available <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/SBS\/Hunger-Games\/\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/conference-to-examine-themes-of-the-hunger-games\/\">The second installment of the Hunger Games\u00a0trilogy hits the big screen this weekend with the release of Catching Fire, and NAU&#8217;s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is hosting a conference to explore the book and movie series\u2019 themes. The conference kicks off with a screening of the first Hunger Games film at 6 p.m.&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":27956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}