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Mdocs Poster-2018-04-02, Palestinian Voices: Lyd In Exile, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Poster-2018-04-02, Palestinian Voices: Lyd In Exile, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
April 2, 6pm
Free and open to the public
Location: Somers Room
The Palestinian Voices series is organized and co-sponsored by the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS), the Environmental Studies and Sciences Program, International Affairs, Media and Film Studies, Art History, History, Hayat, and the Skidmore College Dean’s Office
Join us for a talk by Rami Younis and Sarah Friedland, and a screening of their work-in-progress documentary Lyd In Exile. Younis and Friedland have spent over three years researching and filming Lyd In Exile, and are in post-production. They will screen clips from their film and …
Mdocs Poster-2018-03-02, Oral History For Social Justice With Amy Starecheski, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Poster-2018-03-02, Oral History For Social Justice With Amy Starecheski, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
TALK: Curating Oral History for the 21st Century: Listening Out Loud, Listening with the Eyes and the Body
Thursday, March 1, 3:40 pm – 5:00 pm
Skidmore College, Filene Hall, Room 119
The talk will highlight the dilemmas and the potential of curating oral history for a broad contemporary audience, highlighting Columbia University’s Oral History Master’s Program as an example of an application that bridges archival and public use, media and the textual, audio walking tours as a means to return aural/oral history to place and the body, and a few recent short video and documentary projects by OHMA students, …
Mdocs Poster-2018-02-06, Issam Nassar, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
Mdocs Poster-2018-02-06, Issam Nassar, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
MDOCS Publications
February 6, 6pm
Location: Payne Room
Free and open to the public.
In conjunction with the exhibition This Place
Part of the Palestinian Voices series, organized and co-sponsored by the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS), the Environmental Studies and Sciences Program, International Affairs, Media and Film Studies, Art History, History, Hayat, and the Skidmore College Dean’s Office
Join us for a lecture by Issam Nassar on the history of Palestinian photography. Nassar is a historian of the Modern Middle East and of Photography at Illinois State University. His work focuses on the modern Middle East and the history …
Mdocs Poster-2018-02-05, Voice As Documentary Audibility With Pooja Rangan, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Poster-2018-02-05, Voice As Documentary Audibility With Pooja Rangan, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
Monday, February 5, 2018 6:00 PM - 7:45 PM (ET) PALMTN Emerson Auditorium In the field of documentary, voice, rather than point of view, is the prevailing metaphor for a filmmaker’s unique perspective, signaling the documentary genre’s textual emphasis on spoken words, as well as its social ethic of “giving voice.” Rangan’s talk will unpack the humanitarian resonances of this metaphor, as elaborated in her book Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (Duke UP 2017), reframing voice as an audibility: a product of auditory forms and practices such as documentary that discipline unspoken norms of speaking and listening. Her talk …
Mdocs Poster-2017-09-21, Kekla Magoon: Behind The Headlines, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
Mdocs Poster-2017-09-21, Kekla Magoon: Behind The Headlines, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym
MDOCS Publications
Behind the Headlines: With author Kekla Magoon
Thursday, September 21, 2017 at 7PM-9PM, Gannett Auditorium
Behind the Headlines: New Perspectives and Empathy in How It Went Down and the 21st Century Civil Rights Movement
To open a newspaper today is to encounter endless stories about police shootings, protest marches, and unabashed white supremacy on display. In this challenging landscape, how can we go "behind the headlines?" Join author Kekla Magoon to better understand the impact of race and bias on individuals and communities, and how social and political context inspire and continues to inform her novels.
Kekla MagoonHow it Went …
Mdocs Publicaton- 2016-11-06, Photographer Touches The Soul Of Rock'n'Roll, Kathleen Phalen-Tomaselli
Mdocs Publicaton- 2016-11-06, Photographer Touches The Soul Of Rock'n'Roll, Kathleen Phalen-Tomaselli
MDOCS Publications
"Photographer touches the soul of rock'n'roll with Grateful Dead, Phish, Neil Young and many more"
The Post Star
November 6, 2016
Author: Kathleen Phalen-Tomaselli
Mdocs Banner-2016-09-01, Project Vis Events, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman
Mdocs Banner-2016-09-01, Project Vis Events, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman
MDOCS Publications
List of all Fall 2016 Project VIS Events. Events include:
Ethics Bowl: The Ethics and Law in Media Production
Tue, September 27 @ 6-8pm, Emerson
Tackle the issues facing today's non-fiction storytellers and prepare yourself for the roadblocks to public use that media creators may come to realize only after wrapping production--often too late to resolve crucial rights and relationships. The session will combine brief presentations on law, ethics and methods with background and tips and group discussion by attendees who will grapple with a real-world case and come together to present solutions.
This hands-on training session is a …
Mdocs Flyer-2014-09-01, Project Vis And Mdocs Fall 2014 Events, Jordana Dym
Mdocs Flyer-2014-09-01, Project Vis And Mdocs Fall 2014 Events, Jordana Dym
MDOCS Publications
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