Category: Applied ICD

Containing COVID-19: Mobile Documentaries Competition (China)

Applied ICDCall for entries: Containing COVID-19: Mobile Documentaries, International Mobile Storytelling Competition Series 2020. Institute for Mobile Studies, School of International Communications, University of Nottingham, Ningbo,  China. Deadline: 1 June 2020.

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 in early January 2020, global efforts in containing the virus have been widely documented by mobile users around the world. To document and enhance global joint efforts in containing the virus, we organize an online international mobile documentary competition.

Themes: The competition has, but not limited to, the following three suggested themes: (a) connections (with a special focus on connecting people, expertise and resources although physically distanced during the virus outbreak), (b) collaborations (with a special focus on collaboration processes on different fronts in containing the virus), and (c) contributions (with a special focus on achievements and progress in containing the virus locally, nationally or globally). Other suggested themes could include nurses stories, doctor stories, patients stories, patients’ family stories, or city stories in containing COVID-19.

Categories: The competition has two categories: (a) original documentaries or (b) edited documentaries using video clips collected with permission from original sources.

CIVIS: A European Civic University

Applied ICDCIVIS: A European Civic University is a network of 8 universities designed to create links across and beyond Europe. CIVIS is oriented towards the Mediterranean and Africa.

Universities included: Aix Marseille Université (France), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece),University of Bucharest (Romania), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain), Sapienza Università di Roma (Italia), Stockholms Universitet (Sweden), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany). This alliance was created under the Erasmus+ call of the European Commission, bringing together 384,000 students and 55,000 faculty and staff.

The Mediterranean zone and Africa will be at the heart of their global strategy. Founders firmly believe that the future of Europe and that of Africa are intertwined. This is why CIVIS will affirm its vocation as a bridge between Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa, as part of a long-term commitment.

Global Migration Film Festival

EventsGlobal Migration Film Festival, International Organization for Migration, Geneva, Switzerland. Submission Deadline: June 21, 2020. Event date: November 28-December 18, 2020.

The Global Migration Film Festival has an itinerant and unique format. The films that make up the Official Selection are included in a list which is then shared with about 100 IOM offices and partners worldwide. Each participating country office will then select the films to be screened locally during the Festival, which runs from 28 November – 18 December 2020, worldwide.

Filmmakers will receive a final list of countries where their films will be screened by mid-November. Films can be screened in impromptu scenarios, from traditional cinemas and universities worldwide, to open-air theatres in the desert in Niger and detention centers in Libya. All screenings are entrance free. This means that IOM needs the authorization from the films’ rightsholder(s) to host screenings without territory and frequency limitations for the duration of the Festival.

Innovative Visual Presentation of Research Results: REMINDER

Applied ICDREMINDER, a multidisciplinary project carried out by 14 universities and research institutions around Europe, led by the University of Oxford, has worked with Soapbox to develop an innovative non-linear presentation of the team’s results.

The REMINDER [Role of European Mobility and its Impacts in Narratives, Debates and European Union Reforms] project was “a large-scale attempt to address the full spectrum of social and economic consequences of migration within the European Union and how this phenomenon is reflected in media, policy and public opinion around Europe.” The project addressed five major themes: numbers, impacts, media, attitudes, and  governance. The team decided all of these connected and influenced one another in a range of different and complicated ways, which is why they worked so hard to develop a way to show the overlaps. Both the results and the method are worth learning about.

A complete list of publications produced by members of the team is available here.

 

 

Global Museum Guides Foster ICD

Applied ICDGlobal Guides, Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

What better way to learn about the culture of another place than to speak to someone who grew up there? Through the Global Guides Program, the Penn Museum now offers gallery tours led by immigrants and refugees. In addition to sharing historical information about the artifacts on display, the guides combine personal experiences and stories to interpret objects from their countries of origin.

Global Guides are available to the general public on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays for the Middle East, African, Mexican and Central American Galleries. Private Global Guide tours can be scheduled for groups of 10 or more. Discounted group rates are available. Tours are also available in the Guides’ native languages: Middle East Galleries tours in Arabic, Africa Galleries tours in French, and Mexico and Central America in Spanish.

For further information about this and other museums doing something similar, see:
Ulaby, Neda (17 February 2020). Refugee docents help bring a museum’s global collection to life. National Public Radio.

 

Imagining Peace by Pádraig Ó Tuama

Applied ICDImagining Peace by Pádraig Ó Tuama.
A TEDx Talk presented on October 18, 2016.

What we need are stories that open up the possibility of relationships where there currently are none.

Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet and a theologian. In 2011, with Paul Doran, Pádraig co-founded the storytelling event Tenx9 where nine people have up to ten minutes each to tell a true story from their lives. From 2014-2019, Pádraig led the Corrymeela Community, Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation organisation. Pádraig brings interest in religion, conflict and language to his work. Originally from Cork, he had a nomadic decade (Australia, Lithuania, Switzerland, the Philippines, Uganda) before settling in Belfast in 2003.

Bruno Catalano Les Voyageurs Sculptures

Applied ICDSculptor Bruno Catalano creates life-size, bronze sculptures titled “Les Voyageurs” (The Travelers). These serve as a visual depiction of the disruption caused by migration.

Catalano was born in Morocco to a Sicilian family, and raised in France, so knows the issues first hand.

Further reading:

Bruno Catalano website.

Waldmann, Nadine. (20 July 2018). Not all there – the enigmatic sculptures of Bruno Catalano. Daily Art Magazine.

Black International Cinema Berlin Competition 2020 (Germany)

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Call for entries, Black International Cinema Berlin, to be exhibited 7-10 May, 2020, Berlin, Germany. Deadline: 31 January 2020.

The festival focuses on presenting works of an artistic, cultural or political nature coinciding with the general educational, social, artistic and economic interest of people from Africa, the African Diaspora and people with an interest in participating in intercultural communication and the resultant interfacing and sharing of educational, social, artistic and economic resources. Black International Cinema Berlin is open to ALL filmmakers and contributes to better understanding and increasing cooperation between people from various cultural, ethnic, national and religious backgrounds, in order to reduce prejudice and support a peaceful and respectful living together in our multi-faceted societies.

The BLACK INTERNATIONAL CINEMA BERLIN is a yearly interdisciplinary, intercultural film/video festival produced and directed by Fountainhead® Tanz Théâtre / THE COLLEGIUM – Forum & Television Program Berlin / “Footprints in the Sand?” ExhibitionBerlin in association with Cultural Zephyr e.V. and screens cinema from Africa, the African Diaspora and films from varied intercultural backgrounds or perspectives.

Tree of 40 Fruit TED Talk

Applied ICDVan Aken, S. (2019, June). How one tree grows 40 different kinds of fruit [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/sam_van_aken_how_one_tree_grows_40_different_kinds_of_fruit

Sam Van Aken TED talk

 

A few months ago, CID put up a post suggesting that Sam Van Aken’s Tree of 40 Fruit provides a good metaphor for intercultural dialogue. So it seems appropriate to now point out that he gave a TED Talk this summer updating his project, for those who wish to learn more about how it has been going. And to show off his astonishing trees after a few years. of growth As he says, “This is definitely not a sport of immediate gratification.” Again, this sure sounds like a metaphor for intercultural dialogue!

Venice School of Human Rights 2020 (Italy)

Applied ICDThe Global Campus of Human Rights is now accepting applications for the Venice School of Human Rights 2020. The School will take place in Venice, at the Global Campus of Human Rights Headquarters, 28 March-4 April 2020.Application deadline: 24 February 2020, early bird until 27 January to receive a 10% discount.

The programme is divided into three separate streams covering human rights defenders, gender equality, and rights of the child. A core introduction to each of the main themes will be provided to all participants in plenary, and following this, specialised seminars will be organised in smaller groups in the respective subject areas. A red thread running through the programme will be to highlight and work with the concrete experience of participants, who bring a rich legacy of engagement in complex human rights situations to bear on the programme. The faculty of the School includes prominent academics, representatives of leading human rights NGOs, members of the European Parliament and Sakharov Prize Laureates.