School of Social and Political Science

Description

Summary: Join us for an afternoon celebrating social science filmmaking and the contribution filmmaking can make to creating research impact. Five academics from the across the School of Social and Political Science will present works ranging from drama about bodily transformation to powerful documentaries about migration, faith and democracy. We will explore how the films, and the collaborations that underpin them, came into being. The event will culminate in a panel discussion on how film can be used to build relationships and create impact. 

Location: Screening Room G.04, 50 George Square 

Films:  

Boza! 

Field Flowers 

Santi Migranti 

Maggie’s Story 

Broken Wings  

Inkululeko 

Speakers: 

Laura Jeffery (Professor of Anthropology of Migration; Dean of Research, School of Social and Political Science) 

Ann-Christin Zuntz (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Social and Political Science) 

Magnus Course (Head of Social Anthropology; Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science) 

Gill Haddow (Professor of Sociology of Medicine and Technology, School of Social and Political Science) 

Carin Runciman (Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Political Science) 

Download the Social Science on Screen programme.