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SUMMARY:Helen Elaine Lee: "Pomegranate"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Helen Elaine Lee\nAt this week’s colloquium\, Helen Elaine Lee reads from the manuscript of her novel\, Pomegranate\, about a recovering addict who is getting out of prison and trying to stay clean\, regain custody of her children\, and choose life. Professor Lee\, who teaches writing in Comparative Media Studies/Writing\, is also Director of MIT’s Program in Women’s & Gender Studies. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Her first novel\, The Serpent’s Gift\, was published by Atheneum and her second novel\, Water Marked\, was published by Scribner. Her short story “Blood Knot” appeared in the spring 2017 issue of Ploughshares and the story “Lesser Crimes” appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of Callaloo. She recently finished The Unlocked Room\, a novel about a group of people who are incarcerated in two neighboring U.S. prisons and the woman who comes to teach them poetry as she searches for her lost brother.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/helen-elaine-lee-pomegranate/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Anushka Shah\, “How Entertainment Can Help Fix the System”
DESCRIPTION:Anushka Shah\, founder of Civic Studios and the Civic Entertainment project at the Center for Civic Media\, MIT Media Lab.\nAround the world\, citizens are saying the system is broken. If it’s education and schools one day\, it’s healthcare the next. Our trust in politics and public institutions is falling globally\, and our confidence in the ability to solve problems around us is teetering. \nCan entertainment and pop culture be a way out? Can films\, television shows\, and digital content become spaces to teach us how to fix our systems? Can we create influential media that changes how we talk about identity\, social justice\, public institutions\, and citizen power? \nIn this talk\, Anushka Shah\, founder of the production house Civic Studios and the Civic Entertainment project at the MIT Media Lab\, explores how entertainment can provide alternate narratives of citizen participation. \nShah’s Civic Entertainment project explores the intersection of civic participation with film\, television\, radio\, theatre and digital entertainment. The project focuses on researching the media effects of fiction towards thought and behavior change\, explores how methods of social change available to citizens can be best represented in entertainment media\, and investigates the representation of protest and activism in current popular culture. \nHer production firm Civic Studios focuses on creating such civic entertainment content for Indian audiences. The aim of the content is to empower audiences by addressing the lack of trust in public institutions\, knowledge of government and democratic systems\, and increasing self-efficacy to participate in change as a citizen. \nOriginally from Mumbai\, India\, Anushka divides her time between Mumbai\, Boston\, and Chicago. She has a background in applied statistics and digital text analysis\, and has also previously worked with non-profits and political parties in India.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/anushka-shah-how-entertainment-can-help-fix-the-system/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Vivek Bald\, “If I Could Reach the Border...”
DESCRIPTION:Vivek Bald\, filmmaker and Associate Professor of Writing and Digital Media\nVivek Bald\, Associate Professor of Writing and Digital Media\, will read from a new essay that uses a teenage encounter with police and the justice system to explore questions of immigrant acceptability\, racialization\, and the South Asians American embrace of model minority status. He will also provide an update on his documentary film\, In Search of Bengali Harlem\, recently funded by the PBS-affiliated Center for Asian American Media\, and currently being edited by Comparative Media Studies master’s alum\, Beyza Boyacioglu. Between the essay and film\, Bald will reflect on South Asian American experiences of multi-racial identity and histories of cross-racial community-making. \nBald is a scholar\, writer\, and documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on histories of migration and diaspora\, particularly from the South Asian subcontinent. He is the author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (Harvard University Press\, 2013)\, and co-editor\, with Miabi Chatterji\, Sujani Reddy\, and Manu Vimalassery of The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power (NYU Press\, 2013).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/vivek-bald-if-i-could-reach-the-border/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:William Uricchio\, “Why Co-Create?  And Why Now?  Reports from A Field Study”
DESCRIPTION:William Uricchio\, Professor of Comparative Media Studies and Principal Investigator of the MIT Open Documentary Lab\nCo-Creation is picking up steam as a claim\, aspiration\, and buzz-word du jour. But what is and why does it matter? Drawing on a just-released field study\, Collective Wisdom\, this session will address those questions and explore the method’s implications for just and equitable creation. It will consider co-creation in the arts with communities\, across disciplines and organizations\, and with non-humans (both biological and AI systems)\, calling out precedents and best practices in a broad array of communities\, including historically marginalized groups. What are the trends\, opportunities\, and challenges bound up in co-creation and its various deployments\, and why it is increasingly urgent in our time? \nWilliam Uricchio is Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT\, where he is also founder and Principal Investigator of the MIT Open Documentary Lab and Principal Investigator of the Co-Creation Studio. He\, together with Katerina Cizek\, authored Collective Wisdom — a field study on co-creation. His current research considers co-creation\, documentary\, and the epistemological crisis that characterizes our time.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/william-uricchio-why-co-create-and-why-now-reports-from-a-field-study/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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