Workshop for Educators - "Cutting Edge Curriculum: Creating Video Essays"

"Cutting Edge Curriculum: Creating Video Essays"

Workshop Description

How can video essays offer new avenues to engage with histories of genocidal violence? The first part of this skills-based workshop for educators will introduce participants to key concepts for teaching about genocide. We will then examine strategies for understanding film as a form for teaching and learning about genocide. The remainder of the workshop will be deeply interactive: teaching participants how to create videographic projects using Adobe Premiere Pro. Each participant will leave the workshop having created a short video of their own related to genocide awareness and prevention.

Breakfast, lunch, and coffee are included in the workshop. Breakfast will be available beginning at 8:30am and the workshop itself will start promptly at 9:00am.

Learner Outcomes

• Participants will learn key concepts to better understand genocide.
• Participants will learn to identify cinematic strategies for analyzing the messages and meanings of films, especially as related to the field of genocide studies.
• Participants will gain the skills to create—and/or guide students through the creation of—videographic projects about genocide prevention.

About the Facilitator

Dr. Lisa DiGiovanni's interdisciplinary research and teaching centers on representations of war, dictatorial violence and genocide in 20th - 21st century Spain and Latin America. She deals with narrative (novels, short stories, graphic novels) and films (fiction and documentary) that render visible the multiple traumas related to state repression and militaristic culture. Beyond her videographic scholarship work, Dr. DiGiovanni is also the author of Unsettling Nostalgia in Spain and Chile: Longing for Resistance in Literature and Film, numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, and book chapters. Her work is published in both English and Spanish. Dr. DiGiovanni is bilingual and holds a split appointment in the KSC Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies as well as the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures. Her full bio can be found here.

Registration

Please learn more and register here. Space is limited for this offering. The hard deadline for registration is October 3 (unless spots fill up sooner); we are not able to accept any participants into the workshop after that date.

This event is part of the Cohen Center calendar.