A Global Engagement Portfolio
A Global Engagement Portfolio
For my midterm in Professor A. George Bajalia’s class The Idea of Palestine, we were tasked with analyzing a work that dealt with the Palestine question and its circulation amidst different circles. I chose to analyze Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman’s film It Must Be Heaven about a film director pitching his movie about Palestine to …
At the end of the Spring 2024 semester, I submitted what is still my favorite paper I’ve written for film school: “Música, Memoria, Moving Image in Spain”. I think part of what I appreciated so much about Madrid native Professor Bernardo Antonio-González’s film class was his consistent focus on pop culture, music, architecture, and history …
Going into CGST 206, Global Engagement In Practice, taught by Professor Anita Deeg-Carlin, I was incredibly excited for the study abroad component of the course. Throughout the class, we delved deep into the culture and issues across different social spheres in contemporary Africa, with a particular focus on Nairobi, Kenya in preparation for our trip …
For SPAN 267 – Image/Word, a Spanish-language class about photography across 20th century Spain, we constantly analyzed different photos and ways in which different photographic styles and skills, as well as cultural and historical context changes their meaning and the story that they tell. We read and wrote about different photographers and theorists in and …
For an International Art Cinema class during my senior fall, I was tasked to design a film based on one of the directors we’d talked about in class. The director I chose to embody was the legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, whose films touched on contemporary Iran through metanarratives that are framed as taking place …
