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Oksana Sarkisova is the head of the executive committee of the Visual Theory and Practice advanced certificate program and the Visual Studies Platform. She is also a research fellow at the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives, director of Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Budapest, and co-founder of the Visual Studies Platform at CEU. Her fields of research are cultural history, memory and representation, film history, amateur photography, and visual studies. She teaches courses on visual theory, memory politics and Eastern European cinema, documentary cinema and human rights, and documentary filmmaking for historians. |
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Jeremy Braverman is a media and Visual Education Specialist at CEU Library's Mirabaud Media Lab, providing direct support for media and visual literacy through instruction on state-of-the-art equipment, practical training in communicating through moving images, and promotion of high technical standards for media production across the university’s academic programs. Prior to joining CEU, Jeremy spent 15 years teaching filmmaking at the university level, most recently as an associate professor and department chair at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA. As a filmmaker, his short films have played in film festivals around the US and received a number of awards. |
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Vlad Naumescu is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at CEU. He is an anthropologist of religion broadly interested in questions of learning and cultural transmission. He also teaches visual anthropology and documentary filmmaking courses and workshops and supervises visual works ranging from photo essays to documentary films and interactive cross-media projects. He is currently exploring the potential of new media to capture and visualize empirical data and generate new modes of ethnographic storytelling. Part of this work has been channeled into the establishment of the Visual Studies Platform and a certificate program in Visual Theory and Practice. |
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Krisztina Szabados is the coordinator at Visual Studies Platform. She's administering the Visual Theory and Practice advanced certificate program, and also coordinates activities organized by VSP. She shares her time between VSP, and administers REPATRIATES and DYNASNET projects too at CEU. She can be reached at vsp@ceu.edu. |