News
The latest news from Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT.
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Film director Thorsten Trimpop wins Golden Dove at Leipzig Festival
The prize, one of the most prestigious for documentary filmmaking, is for Trimpop’s film Furusato, chronicling the effects of Japan’s nuclear disaster at Fukushima.
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In Medias Res 2016
The surreality of so many election moments may account for the focus of this issue of In Medias Res and indeed of CMS/W’s work since 2015 and 2016: the long-awaited breakthrough of virtual reality technology.
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New York Times: “Meeting ‘the Other’ Face to Face”
“A deeply affecting experiment in communication, called ‘The Enemy,’ underway at M.I.T., is the result of a collaboration between Mr. Ben Khelifa and Fox Harrell, an associate professor of digital media.”
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Grad student Sara Rafsky serves as contributor to chilling Amnesty International report on Central America’s regufee crisis
“Home Sweet Home? Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador’s role in a deepening refugee crisis explores how the three countries are failing to protect people from violence, and also failing to set up a comprehensive protection plan for deportees forced by countries such as Mexico and the USA to return to life-threatening situations.”
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Communicating Humanities Research Through Video
What does a department need (and not need) to produce a video that tells a story about research? And how does an administrator determine whether the benefits outweigh the costs?
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Read excerpt of Heather Hendershot’s new book on William F. Buckley
Published in Political Magazine: “William F. Buckley was no feminist, but he was an (unintentional) ally.”
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Junot Díaz receives Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature
Ceremony to be broadcast on PBS on September 30, and Díaz will share the stage with other winners, including Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
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re:constructions…15 years after 9/11
“It’s something of a time capsule, with responses to the events more or less as they happened and before they codified into a well-rehearsed narrative.”
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Nov. 10: An Evening with John Hodgman
On Thursday, November 10 at 6pm, John Hodgman brings his razor-sharp wit to MIT for a moderated discussion on his career and the state of comedy today.
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Video and podcast: “Virtual Reality Meets Documentary: A Deeper Look”
Featuring the leading creators in the virtual reality space, helping us better understand VR’s potentials and implications for documentary and journalism.
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Kurt Fendt wins student-nominated Teaching with Digital Technology Award
The award recognizes Fendt’s incorporation of collaboration-focused digital humanities tools, including two that Fendt himself helped develop, Annotation Studio and Metamedia.
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Video, podcast, and summary: “Excellence in Teaching”
What separates a good teacher from a great one? Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky, Weisskopf Professor of Physics Alan Guth and MIT biology professor Hazel Sive–all honored teachers–will explore these issues with Literature professor and Communications Forum director emeritus David Thorburn.
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World Goin’ One Way, People Another: Subcreation and Politics in The Wire
“If academia has anything to do with the staying power of a media text (and for my own sake, I hope it does), The Wire will undoubtedly live on as a cultural touchstone for years to come.”
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Looking for Change, Online and Off-Center
Professors T.L. Taylor and Ian Condry are exploring the connections between online and offline worlds through the Creative Communities Initiative.
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Angles 2015
Congratulations to this year’s students published in Angles, a collection of the best pieces from introductory writing courses at MIT.
