Past Events

Date: Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 2:00pm - Friday, February 15, 2013 - 7:00pm

Location: American University, Katzen Arts Center 4400 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20016

Media That Matters is an annual conference presented by the Center for Social Media at American University. It is designed for established and aspiring filmmakers, nonprofit communication leaders, funders, and students who want to learn and share cutting-edge practices to make their media matter. 

Date: Thursday, December 6, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:00pm

Location: Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center 315, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016

Human trafficking is increasingly being exposed as an egregious human rights abuse from which the United States is not immune. Event sponsors, POV, Polaris Project and the Center for Social Media are encouraging media makers and human rights advocates to join us for a screening of "Girl Model" followed by an essential conversation about how these violations can be stopped.

Described as "a haunted glimpse of exploited youth" by Variety Magazine, "Girl Model" shines a light on the ugly, exploitative side of the beauty business. The documentary, by David Redmon & Ashley Sabin, follows a 13-year-old girl from a village in Siberia as she is scouted at a modeling cattle call and taken to work in Japan. 

Camera as Catalyst

Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Location: Wechsler Theater, 3rd Floor, Mary Graydon Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20016

Photojournalists play a key role in visual expression of public media and information. They provide storytelling through intimate and profound still images. The Center for Social Media and the School of Communication  welcome Magnum Photographer Larry Towell to our Camera As Catalyst series - also a FotoWeek DC event.

If there's one theme that connects all my work, I think it's that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities. ~Larry Towell

Partner Event

Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Location: Ward Building, Rooms 1 & 2, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20016

How would your views change if you knew the untold stories of history that shaped our politics and society?

Join the College of Arts & Sciences for an advance episode screeing "Untold History of the United States," a ten part documentery series airing on Showtime by Academy award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone and AU History Professor Peter Kuznick.

What Showtime Says about the Series:
This ten-part documentary series looks back at human events that at the time went under reported, but that crucially shaped America's unique and complex history over the 20th century. From the atomic bombing of Japan to the Cold War and the fall of Communism, this in-depth, surprising, and totally riveting series will hold your attention for all ten episodes.