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In its fifth year, Mimesis Documentary Festival is getting more play

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:16:23 +0000

In its fifth year, Mimesis Documentary Festival is getting more play Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 08/13/2024 - 10:16

By Hannah Stewart (Comm’19)

The Mimesis Documentary Festival, hosted by the College of Media, Communication and Information’s Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media, will hold community film screenings, artist talks and more from Aug. 14 through 18. This year, they received nearly 300 submissions from more than 30 countries, and will feature more than 60 documentaries.

“Being five years in means that we’re fulfilling a need in the international documentary community—the need for a festival that’s really artist-focused and community based,” said Eric Coombs Esmail, director of the center.

If you go

What: Mimesis Documentary Festival

When: Aug. 14-18

Where: Venues throughout Boulder as well as virtual screenings

Who: Festival passes ($80) and virtual passes ($30) are available to the public. CU Boulder community members are eligible for a 50% discount, and free tickets are available to CU Boulder students.

Learn more and purchase tickets

Now that it’s a well-known annual event, the festival is attracting more community partnerships and sponsors. Cool Boulder, along with the Endangered Species Coalition, subsidized artist submission fees for projects addressing nature-based climate solutions. These projects are part of a special category of films called Moving Creatures that will be featured across two days in four different documentary and live performance blocks. Other sponsors include the City of Boulder and the Boulder Public Library.

Associate Professor Erin Espelie, who holds a joint appointment in both cinema studies and critical media practices, is also a filmmaker whose documentary, Gavia Stellata, will be featured as part of the block called The Tree Remembers. Emergent technologies and media art practices PhD candidates Laurids Sonne and Emma Piper-Burket will also have their works shown in a Moving Creatures block.

Two other particularly exciting pieces this year include the pre-festival screening of Feet in Water, Head on Fire by Terra Long and Cette Maison by artist in residence Miryam Charles.

Long’s film was screened Saturday, Aug. 10, at the Boulder Public Library’s Canyon Theater, and was followed up with a live Q&A with the filmmaker. While this is not the first time Mimesis has hosted a pre-festival screening, Coombs said this was special because of the collaboration.

“We’ve done pre-festival screenings twice previously, but they’ve been under the radar,” he said. “This year, our partnership with the Boulder Library to make sure the festival is reaching the community beyond just the event itself. The library has gotten more funding and it’s opened up a lot more avenues for collaboration.”

Artists in residence are chosen by the programming team, and Charles was the perfect candidate because the team saw her as “someone who really works at the boundary of what documentary might become.” Her film, which reflects on the unresolved death of her cousin, will be shown at 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 16, and she will host a master class the next morning at 10; both will take place at the Boedecker Cinema.

“The main goal is to host something that is valuable not only to the artists, but to the broader Front Range community in general,” Coombs said. “We want to make Mimesis sustainable and something that can survive the test of time. We want to grow the community we’ve built and demonstrate to that documentary is for everyone.”

The growing Mimesis Documentary Festival is returning for its fifth year, this time with more sponsors and community support.

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Information science professor wins educational research award

Anonymous — Wed, 10 May 2023 17:39:39 +0000

Information science professor wins educational research award Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 05/10/2023 - 11:39

By Hannah Stewart (Comm’19)

For Ricarose Roque, educational justice and equity are paramount. As an assistant professor in the Department of Information Science, much of her research explores the concept of inclusive learning experiences. This research—which often considers the place of technology in a learning environment—won her recognition by Division C of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Ricarose Roque
Assistant Professor
Information Science

Each year, the AERA recognizes education researchers and Roque, who also has a courtesy appointment in the School of Education, was honored with the Jan Hawkins Award, which highlights contributions to humanistic research and scholarship in learning technologies.

“Far too often, research on learning with technology focuses on the coldly cognitive aspects of learning,” explained Joe Polman, associate dean for research in CU’s School of Education. “In contrast, this award is designed to recognize research and development on learning with technologies that takes into account how human beings have complex and important lives.”

Through the Creative Communities research group, Roque and her team have been conducting research that engages with communities at multiple levels. For example, some projects explore computing outside the classroom while others investigate relationship and identity building.

The Family Creative Learning workshops she designed “build on families’ relationships and cultural backgrounds and to strengthen their social support and expertise around computing,” according to the program’s website.

Inspired by her family’s Filipino culture and the experience of growing up as an immigrant in the U.S., Roque creates her projects and programs in such a way that supports and uplifts local communities. As a result, since coming to CMCI, she has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

“Like Jan Hawkins, Ricarose recognizes the great potential for new technologies in the learning process, but she has a humanist’s perspective on the centrality of social and cultural context,” MIT Professor of Learning Research Mitchel Resnick wrote in his letter nominating Roque. “Also, like Jan, Ricarose brings a warmth and kindness to everything she does, always willing to help and support others, both emotionally and intellectually.”

Roque was selected by a committee that included five individuals from universities across the country and honored at the 2023 AERA annual conference, which was held in April in Chicago. As a recipient of the Jan Hawkins Award, Roque will receive a $500 stipend, plaque and opportunity to speak at next year’s AERA award session.

“I feel very proud and humbled to receive this award, especially as it honors Jan Hawkins' legacy of humanistic research and uses of learning technologies that respect young people and their communities,” Roque said.

Ricarose Roque, assistant professor in the Department of Information Science was recognized by the American Educational Research Association for her work focusing on technology and education.

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CU Boulder Today: "Science writer wins top honor among national peers"

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:08:52 +0000

CU Boulder Today: "Science writer wins top honor among national peers" Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 10/23/2020 - 12:08

Featuring Lisa Marshall (Strategic Relations and Communications)

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CU Boulder to host symposium on “What is a Feminist Lab?”

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 18:01:17 +0000

CU Boulder to host symposium on “What is a Feminist Lab?” Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 04/12/2019 - 12:01

Researchers from labs across the country will come together on CU Boulder’s campus for a two-day symposium exploring how feminist approaches can be integrated into lab settings.

The “What Is a Feminist Lab?” symposium is free and open to the public and will take place April 17-18 in the university’s Norlin Library. Seats will be available on a first come, first served basis.

During the symposium, which will include both presentations and lab tours, speakers will survey the lab landscape and examine the proliferation of labs, drawing on intersectional feminist approaches. The event is meant to create a dialogue among lab leaders and collaborators from across the U.S. and Canada, as well as students and babyֱ��app from various interdisciplinary university labs.

Featured speakers include: Ashley Baccus-Clark, a molecular and cellular biologist and multidisciplinary artist based in New York; Ingrid Burrington, a writer and map maker based in New York; Max Liboiron, an assistant professor of geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland; Elizabeth Losh, an associate professor of English and American studies at the College of William and Mary in Virginia; Tara McPherson, a professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts; Marisa Parham, a professor of English at Amherst College in Massachusetts; Jacqueline Wernimont, an associate professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire; and Darren Wershler, an associate professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal.

CU Boulder will also provide lab tours and presentations of the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship; the Media Archaeology Lab; the Unstable Design Lab; Nature, Environment, Science and Technology Studio for the Arts; and Blow Things Up Lab.

The symposium will take place on Wednesday, April 17, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in CU Boulder’s Norlin Library, room N410. Lab tours will be led on Thursday, April 18, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., also beginning in the Norlin Library, room N410, and then at each lab’s location starting at 10:30 a.m.

The event is co-organized by Professor and Director of Digital Scholarship for the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship Thea Lindquist, PhD Candidate and Curator of the Media Archaeology Lab Maya Livio, and Associate Professor and Director of the Media Archaeology Lab Lori Emerson. Major sponsors for the symposium are the Media Archaeology Lab and the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship. A list of co-sponsors and additional information can be found on the symposium’s web page.

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If you go:

What: “What is a Feminist Lab?” Symposium

Who: Free and open to the public, with seats available on a first come, first served basis

When: Wednesday, April 17, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday, April 18, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Where: Norlin Library Room N410 on April 17th and on April 18th beginning at Norlin Library N410, then at each lab’s location starting at 10:30am

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Center for Environmental Journalism seeking 2017-2018 fellows

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 00:23:37 +0000

Center for Environmental Journalism seeking 2017-2018 fellows Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/03/2017 - 17:23

Applications are now being accepted for the 2017-2018 fellowship. Each year, five exceptional journalists are awarded a Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism.

Over a nine-month period, fellows attend classes at the University of babyֱ��app Boulder, participate in weekly seminars and field trips, and pursue their own journalistic projects on a wide range of environmental topics. Former fellows have gone on to collect Pulitzer Prizes for their work, authored best-selling books, and headed up some of the nation's most respected news organizations.

Visit the Center for Environmental Journalism for more information on the fellowship and how to apply.

Each year, five exceptional journalists are awarded a Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism. Applications are now being accepted for the 2017-2018 fellowship.

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