Nuclear weapons have been around since 1945, when the Manhattan Project finally created a weapon that would end World War II. Since then, these weapons were the subject of Americans’ fear during the Cold War, and then both a taboo […]
As the IFP experience comes to a close, our small team of 10 has spent the last few weeks in Rio filming, photographing, and making as many connections as possible. While each of us is engaged in individual research and […]
Se você pudesse quebrar as regras, o que você faria? If you could break the rules, what would you do? After a week of exploring the new sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro, our group set off Monday afternoon […]
[Three youth members of Know Your City TV shoot an interview in our first meeting with the Vusi Nsutsha community.] …Or better yet, wamkelekile! Wamkelekile means welcome in the Xhosa language, which is one of the eleven official languages spoken […]
Josh Bombart completed a documentary on political song in South America as his thesis project at the International Affairs Program at The New School. Below, read his description of his project and view the film. South America has seen much […]
Imagine you awake one morning to find that your internet is down in your apartment, “No problem,” you think. You switch to your cellular service on your phone. Your phone isn’t working either. You try to turn on your TV. […]
In Professor Glenna Gordon’s International Photojournalism course, students learn to engage with the language of visuals and to think critically about photographs and representations. After looking at both traditional photojournalism methods and new forms of image making, students can choose […]
SGPIA student Maya Mehta (Media and Culture) participated in last summer’s International Field Program in Rio de Janeiro. She had worked at the intersection of youth development and art, and took naturally to the art-based community and education work done by […]
One of the outside organizations that Engage Media Lab, a student organization here at The New School, works with is the Arab-American Family Support Center. New School students have been leading media education classes and projects for a few years […]
What is a revolution? If you ask Charif Kiwan, the exiled Syrian and one of three named members of Abounaddara, he would answer that, in the case of Syria, it is a demand for dignity. Abounadarra is an anonymous […]
