SOC ACCOMPLISHMENTS – APRIL 21, 2023
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Filippo Trevisan co-organized and co-chaired the Festival of Disability Advocacy in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. This week-long event brought together emerging disability rights leaders, academics, and other experts from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, the UK, and the U.S. for a series of workshops and knowledge exchange activities. The Festival also served as the launch of the Youth Disability Advocacy and Research (YDAR) network, a collaborative project of Bournemouth University, American University, ADD International, and the Institute on Disability and Public Policy funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. Over the coming months, Festival participants will develop and launch advocacy campaigns on key disability inclusion issues in East Africa with mentorship from network participants. Capacity building will also continue through a series of online workshops, resource sharing, and network expansion.
The event was covered in several Tanzanian media, including (all in Swahili): Channel 10 TV (from 17:46);Mwananchi Newspapers; and Wasafi FM Radio.
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Participants in the YDAR Festival of Disability Advocacy in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
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Steven Dashiell, Post-doctoral research fellow at the AU Game Center and CAS Department of Sociology, published an article at The Conversation entitled ‘The complex relationship between Black gamers and Hogwarts Legacy’ (the new Sony Playstation video game based on the Harry Potter franchise). https://theconversation.com/the-complex-relationship-between-black-gamers-and-hogwarts-legacy-202319
Steven also delivered a paper at SCMS entitled “OG D&D: Analyzing old school rules as an aspect of gender capital and the magic circle” for which he received honorable mention at the SCMSClassCaucus essay contest.
Andrew Phelps, director of the AU Game Center and professor in FMA and CompSci, served on a panel at More Than Just A Game 2023 hosted by the Queen Mary University College of Law and Centre for Commercial Law entitled “A Constitution for the Metaverse” described as “the conference will close with a session exploring the role of IP in designing, creating and experiencing the Metaverse. Will IP become a guarantee of creativity and freedom or a path to dominance and digital servitude?”
Other panelists included Micaela Mantegna, TED Fellow & BKC Harvard Affiliate; Willy Duhen, Senior Director, Legal at Activision | Blizzard; and Lord Timothy Clement Jones, UK House of Lords and former Chair of the Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. London, UK.
Laura Waters Hinson has two documentaries playing at the upcoming Indy Film Festival, including her doc short, Street Reporter, and her feature doc, Project Home. The festival, based in Indianapolis, IN, runs from April 19-30th. This marks the first time Laura has had two films accepted in one festival at the same time. Drawing more than 5,000 viewers each year, the Indy Film Festival’s mission seeks to, “create a shared experience by championing films that entertain, challenge, and expand perspectives in Indianapolis and beyond.” Links to the films' schedules: Street Reporter & Project Home
Laura also served as an invited member of the Short Film Jury at the Annapolis Film Festival in late March. During the festival, she was a featured speaker at the “Director’s Panel” alongside Academy-award nominated filmmaker Lisa Cortes. She also spoke at the “Festival Coffee Talk” panel alongside director Pablo Durano of the feature documentary, No Legs, All Heart.
Here is a great tweet by Gabe Ferris (right), a senior working full time now at ABC News, and two senior classmates also covering Congress. On the left is NBC News Capitol Hill intern Syedah Asghar and in center is Adrianna Doria, Capitol Hill College Associate for Fox News.
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Recent SOC alum Gabe Ferris and current journalism students Syedah Asghar and Adrianna Doria reporting from Capitol Hill.
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The Senior Seminar Capstone Art Exhibition showcases the diverse talents and creative achievements of our six senior students: Hailee Arrington, Allison Kraus, Dantong Lou (Zoe), Katie Mead, Jonah Peterson, and Barisa Rahman. Through their work, they explore a diverse range of themes and issues, from personal identity to social justice, from abstract forms to realistic representations with a range of mediums in photography, installation, painting, drawing, and more. This show represents the culmination of their studies in the Undergraduate Studio Art BA and the Photography BA program at AU.
The Undergraduate Studio Art BA program provides students with the tools and critical frameworks necessary to engage ambitiously with the historical and contemporary criteria for making art. Meanwhile, the Photography BA program is designed for students interested in all forms of photography, from fine art to photojournalism.
The Senior Seminar Capstone Art Exhibition is a celebration of the hard work, dedication, and creation that they have acquired throughout their time at AU. We are thrilled to present the exhibition to the public and invite you to join us in celebrating the success of our senior students.
The exhibition runs through 4/15 (Sat) - 5/2 (Tue). Please join us at the Opening Reception in the Katzen Rotunda on Friday, 4/21 from 5 pm to 7 pm.
AU’s PRSSA Chapter (the Public Relations Student Society of America) held their Annual Awards Ceremony Sunday. The recipients included the following:
Outstanding faculty: Jason Mollica (this is the second time Professor Mollica has received the award.)
Outstanding Department/Partnership: SOC Graduate Office
Outstanding alum: Harrison Allen, with Levi Strauss
Aram Sinnreich was quoted in the IBT today about TikTok and the lack of data privacy regulation in the US.
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Dr. Filippo Trevisan Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs Associate Professor - School of Communication American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC - 20016
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