Month: September 2019

The Aronson Awards

The Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism
& Cartooning with a Conscience
Tues., Oct. 29, 2019 | 6:30 PM | more info
Free and open to the Public
RSVP: aronsonrsvp@gmail.com

Location:
Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College
2180 Third Ave. (corner of 119th St.)  see map
2nd floor, Auditorium/Room 202

group centro de periodismo

Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism wins Aronson Award for Media in the Public Interest
Come learn how one small news organization’s investigative reporting helped to take down Puerto Rico’s governor!

Special Guests: Carla Minet, CPI Executive Director & Luis Valentín, CPI Journalist
Esteemed journalist Karen Hunter will host the Aronson Awards ceremony.

Prof. Ivone Margulies’ On Women’s Films: Across Worlds and Generations published

Ivone book cover

On Women’s Films: Across Worlds and Generations ― a  collection co-edited by Prof. Ivone Margulies and J. Szaniawski was published by Bloomsbury Press (2019).

About:
On Women’s Films looks at contemporary and classic films from emerging and established makers such as Maria Augusta Ramos, Xiaolu Guo, Valérie Massadian, Lynne Ramsay, Lucrecia Martel, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Chantal Akerman, or Claire Denis. Read more about the book | Link to the book on Amazon

Reviews:
“This cutting-edge book responds to the extreme diversity of women’s filmmaking in the last decades. Its dazzling essays, with their focus on experimental and politically committed films, on agency and subjection, on shame and love, make compulsive reading.”
Emma Wilson, Professor of French, University of Cambridge, UK

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