The Diversity in Place Film Project initiative is pleased to announce open call for submissions to the

3rd Annual Diversity in Place Film Fest and Conference, April 2011

Cosmopolis at the Grassroots
Cosmopolitanism as a mode of practice and competence involves the ability of individuals to navigate different cultures and their respective systems of meanings. Yet rarely is the role that place plays explicitly considered as being crucial for the emergence of this mode of practice and competence to occur, develop and be nurtured. Hence, though cosmopolitanism does not happen in a vacuum, it is usually abstracted from everyday life and usually associated with elite traveling across several borders. Alternatively, this year call intends to solicit films that look at very localized forms of cosmopolitanism and tell stories of everyday experiences of cosmopolitanism as they occur in our everyday spaces and places. Cosmopolis at the Grassroots asks for films that raise awareness of the inevitably increasing diverse social and built environment we live in -a view from the grassroots- as to document and value the everyday creative efforts towards the making of Cosmopolis of familiar places where we, all of us, can be at home. This event reaches out to scholars, teachers, students and practitioners alike who are searching for alternative methods to conventional data analysis and academic writing to create, investigate, manage, and disseminate knowledge.

Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2011

For further info, please visit www.diversityinplace.org or contact us: diversityinplace@gmail.com

On how to submit, please click here
http://diversityinplace.org/3rd-annual-diversity-in-pla
ce-film-fest%C2%A02011/692-2/

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Vera Zambonelli
Founder and Creative Director of Diversity in Place Film Project Initiative Associate Director Filmmaking for Social Research Program,UH Globalization Research Center PhD Candidate Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawai'i Manoa www.diversityinplace.org