Call For Submissions: Screening Scholarship Media Festival

The 4th Annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival

April 1st and 2nd, 2016

Highlighted theme on: Race Media, and Social Justice

In the last few years, we have witnessed an explosion of mainstream and independent media coverage on the continued salience of racial discrimination across the globe.  As these media events covered incidents of violence globally, they engaged with the intersectionality of race with religion, class, gender, and ethnicity and have opened up critical public discussions concerning the enduring colonial and imperial logics that shape national policy, the global economy, and local cultural understandings around difference.  For example, the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the brutal attacks on African Americans by U.S. law enforcement that has spawned the Black Lives Matter Movement, the recent state sanctioned violence towards Dominicans of Haitian descent, the continued justification for the occupation of Palestine, or the violent attacks on West Africans in South Africa have forced media makers and activists around the world to engage with how racial discourses are being propagated in ways which have a direct impact on already vulnerable populations.

For more information about the festival and the call for submissions, please visit the SSMF website. (Link below)

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