Documentary and conversation about the relationship between journalism and activism
Protest Lab #5: Film & Gesprek - The Encampments
In collaboration with InScience Film Festival
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Documentary and conversation about the relationship between journalism and activism
Protest Lab #5: Film & Gesprek - The Encampments
In collaboration with InScience Film Festival
Documentary and conversation about the relationship between journalism and activism
Protest Lab #5: Film & Gesprek - The Encampments
In collaboration with InScience Film Festival
Over Protest Lab #5: Film & Gesprek - The Encampments
This screening of The Encampments is part of Protest Lab and is organized in collaboration with InScience Film Festival. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Fréderike Geerdink (journalist and author of Alle journalistiek is activisme, on the relationship between journalism and activism), Joris Gerritsen (editor in chief of De Gelderlander) and Sarah Almada (Nijmegen Student Encampment).
In recent years, following nationwide uprisings in the United States, student encampments have emerged on many Dutch university campuses. Students protested the genocide in Gaza and demanded action from their universities. These encampments also helped raise awareness of the genocide in Gaza among the Dutch public. How did these student movements achieve this, and what role did the encampments play?
It is not always easy for journalists to report on the events that unfold during student protests. While covering these encampments and their impact, many journalists strive for neutrality and objectivity. But is this desirable—or even possible? And if not, how do journalists deal with the fact that they speak from a certain political position? Together with Fréderike, Joris and Sarah, we will discuss how journalism and activism relate to each other, and why this relationship is sometimes complicated.
The talk will be held in English, but questions may also be asked in Dutch.
Program
19:30–21:00: Screening The Encampments
21:00–21:15: Break
21:15–22:00: Panel discussion
More information about this event will follow soon.
About The Encampments
The Encampments offers an urgent and intimate portrait of America’s student movement, ignited at Columbia University when students protested their university’s ties to the war in Gaza. Their actions sparked a nationwide uprising, with encampments spreading across hundreds of campuses. Featuring detained activist Mahmoud Khalil, alongside professors, whistleblowers, and organizers, the film captures the deeper stakes of a historic moment that continues to reverberate around the globe.
Duur
2u 30m
Taal
Engels
Genre
Documentaire,
Duur
2u 30m
Taal
Engels
Genre
Documentaire
Over Fréderike Geerdink
Fréderike Geerdink is an independent journalist, writer, and speaker based in the Netherlands and Kurdistan. Between 2006 and 2020, she worked as a freelance correspondent in Turkey and Kurdistan. She writes for a wide range of Dutch- and English-language media, including De Groene Amsterdammer, Vrij Nederland, Wordt Vervolgd, NRC, OneWorld, New Lines Magazine, and Index on Censorship, focusing primarily on power and those who seek to challenge it. This year, she published the book Alle journalistiek is activisme, in which she explores the history of Dutch journalism and examines its relationship with activism.
