Events

The World Today presents:

Making Media that Matters: Perspectives from a Kenyan Refugee Camp

In the summer of 2017, 8 Penn undergraduates, 2 teaching assistants, and Prof. Peter Decherney traveled to the Kakuma refugee camp and Kalobeyei settlement in Northwest Kenya, near the border with South Sudan. With funding from the School of Arts and Sciences’s Making a Difference in Diverse Communities grant, they collaborated with refugees who had been trained by the organization FilmAid. Together, they made a series of short documentary films and a virtual reality film, documenting the United Nations’ new approach to responding to the refugee crisis in Africa. Come to learn about the program, the larger issues it addressed, and to see the work the students created.

Introductory remarks by Steven Fluharty, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, a short film screening of documentaries produced at Kakuma refugee camp, and a discussion of the Penn-in-Kenya Program and the global refugee crisis with:

• Peter Decherney, Director, Penn-in-Kenya
• Keefe Murren, Executive Director, FilmAid
• Anne Richard, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration
• Sonari Chidi, Penn Student & Participant in the Penn-in-Kenya Program
• Nicholas Escobar, Penn Student & Participant in the Penn-in-Kenya Program

Sponsored by the Perry World House, Cinema & Media Studies, Making a Difference in Diverse Communities, Penn FilmAid, and PURE