SOC’s new Dean Marnel Niles Goins worked with the Outreach and Comms Team to welcome our new students, share her vision for SOC and what she's learned so far in this short video. You might also learn a few fun facts about her too!
Patricia Aufderheide's new book Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy was chosen as Editor's Choice for the prestigious international film magazine Sight and Sound.
The BBC World Service ran a great story about Aram Sinnreich and Dunia Best’s “Out of Our Cells” project, funded by the Humanities Truck. It includes an interview with one of the incarcerated composers. The story starts at 15:47.
Wendy Melillo’s essay, “Fighting for Equality: The Washington Post’s Metro Seven,” was published in the academic journal Journalism History. In 1972, seven Black reporters on The Post’s Metropolitan Desk filed a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an action considered a first against a major national newspaper. Melillo’s essay is part of a diversity series, which explores how diverse and marginalized groups have participated in media. The published essays are selected by a panel of judges.
Maya Livio spent the summer as Researcher-in-Residence at the MAK Center, the U.S. satellite of the MAK Vienna, and the SOM Foundation. The award included project funding and summer residence at the Fitzpatrick-Leland House, a 1936 home by architect R.M. Schindler in Los Angeles's Laurel Canyon. There, she continued research and writing on conservation justice and edited two short films.
While in residence, Maya also programmed and moderated a panel discussion at the MAK Center's headquarters, discussing activist and media-driven land justice projects in the LA region.
