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Global Media Seminar with James Der Derian, John Santos, and chihuahuas

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The 2007 Global Media class prepares for its psycho-geographic drift to the Providence Mall to see The 300

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John Phillip Santos, James Der Derian and Eugene Jarecki with the inaugural 2006 Global Media class (and Che T-shirts)

James Der Derian

James Der Derian is a Watson Institute research professor of international studies. In July 2004, he became the director of the Institute's Global Security Program. Der Derian also directs the Information Technology, War, and Peace Project in the Watson Institute's Global Security Program.

Der Derian was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he completed a M.Phil. and D.Phil. in international relations. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, MIT, Harvard, Oxford, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He is author of On Diplomacy: A Genealogy of Western Estrangement (1987) and Antidiplomacy: Spies, Terror, Speed, and War (1992); editor of International Theory: Critical Investigations (1995) and The Virilio Reader (1998); and co-editor with Michael Shapiro of International/Intertextual Relations: Postmodern Readings of World Politics (1989). His articles on international relations have appeared in the Review of International Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, International Affairs, Brown Journal of World Affairs, Millennium, Alternatives, Cultural Values, and Samtiden. His articles on war, technology, and the media have appeared in the New York Times, Nation, Washington Quarterly, and Wired. His most recent book is Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network (2001).

 

Eugene Jarecki

Eugene Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker. After training at Princeton as a stage director, Jarecki turned to film in 1992, and his first short film, Season of the Litterbees, premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival before winning both a Student Academy Award and the Time Warner Grand Prize at the Aspen Film Festival. Jarecki’s most recent film, Why We Fight, won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The Trials of Henry Kissinger was released in 2002 to critical acclaim in 130 cities, winning that year’s Amnesty International Award and being nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Since then, it has been broadcast in over 30 countries. Trials was also selected to launch the Sundance Channel’s DOCday venture as well BBC’s prestigious digital channel BBC4. In 2001, Jarecki wrote and directed the dramatic feature The Opponent, which was distributed by Lions Gate Films. His first documentary, Quest of the Carib Canoe, premiered to critical acclaim on the BBC before being distributed in over 15 countries. He holds a BA in English with a focus on stage directing and political drama from Princeton University. He also attended New York University's Film Intensive Program.

 

John Phillip Santos

John Phillip Santos is a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute. While at the Institute, he will work with Global Security Program Director James Der Derian on the Global Media Project. Santos is an author and media producer, most recently as a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, where he worked on The Farthest Home is in an Empire of Fire (Viking/Penquin, 2005) and the development of Teletopia Labs, a production workshop for documentary media performances. Before that, he held various positions in media, including stints as a producer at CBS and PBS.

Santos received his BA in philosophy and literature from the University of Notre Dame and his MA in English literature and language as a Rhodes Scholar at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University. He is the author of Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, published by Viking/Penquin in 1999, which was a National Book Award finalist in nonfiction. Santos also was an Emmy nominee in 1988 for "From the AIDS Experience: Part I, Our Spirits to Heal/ Part II, Our Humanity to Heal," and in 1985 for "Exiles Who Never Leave Home."

 

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John Phillip Santos interviews Eugene Jarecki

 

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