The fourth eco_media symposium will be held at RMIT University on Monday 21 November 2022.

Photograph by Miranda Harple

Opening Provocation

Re-Presenting the Land: A Digital StoryMap Project of Indigenous Community Presence
Professor Salma Monani, Gettysburg College, USA

Salma Monani is Professor at Gettysburg College’s Environmental Studies department.  She has extensively published on explorations of Indigenous ecomedia, film and environmental justice, and is co-editor of three ecocritical media anthologies. She is currently working on a monograph: Indigenous Ecocinema: Decolonizing Media Landscapes (contract with University of West Virginia). As part of her College’s Land Acknowledgment Committee, her scholarship also engages the practice of digital, public eco-humanities along with community research with Indigenous partners.

Partner Symposium: Eco-Communications: Interdisciplinary Southern / African Encounters, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

This symposium occurred on 11 November. To view video abstracts, click here.

eco_media Partners

Intellect Books & Journals are our publishing partner. Full details here.

The AFI Research Collection is a specialist public film and television industry resource housing materials encompassing global cinema and television, including press clippings, books, journals, film and television scripts, policy reports, film promotional material, and film festival catalogues. For more info, to search the catalogue or to chat to the outstanding AFI librarians, visit the AFIRC website or check out their Instagram.

Screen & Sound Cultures, at RMIT University, is a collaborative research group for scholars and creative practitioners working across the fields of screen studies, music, filmmaking, media history, curatorial practice, sound design, online media and a range of other interconnected fields. It foregrounds and fosters cross-disciplinary research, local and international collaborations, industry and community links, and the nexus between teaching and research.