CinE

(Cinematic Experiences)

CinE (Cinematic Experiences) is a research and a public forum within Dr. Reuben MC & Affiliated Professionals interdisciplinary-based practices (IBP) in Tokyo and New York City. The mission at CinE is to take a human sciences approach to an important yet understudied aspect of human experiences within a cultural context: the use of cinematic popular culture in education and relationships. In doing so, the projects and research conducted at CinE will explore and challenge the dimensions of the moving image as a popular cultural practice and the various versions of what constitute human learning experiences and practices. The spread of electronically mediated culture has shifted the ground of academia and schooling away from traditional disciplines designed to perpetuate a common culture to more hybridized fields of research such as ecology, psychology, education, sociology and, most important of all, human relationships . For example, instead of connecting learning exclusively to encyclopedic knowledge or lectures and books as the only legitimate academic channels, exploration of a great many other forms is possible through a variety of popular forms: media, music, mass communication, and especially the cinema.

While the cinema has emerged in the last hundred years as one of the most powerful forms of entertainment, communication and art; the influential power of movies is largely ignored in education and human socialization. It is important to recognize that cinema itself may be a highly complex enterprise of production and reproduction, but it is unique in welcoming people who attend to it without any educational background check or technical requirements. Most people go to the cinema, especially our youngsters, much as they go to the shopping mall or to take a walk in the park. Nowadays, you cannot assume that one student in twenty has read a given book; chances are high that half of the students will have seen any film that any teacher may care to mention. It is here that the enormous promise of the cinema lies: in its openness, proliferation of multiple stories, open ended forms, and promotion of cultural explorations.

MIGRANT STUDIES

Book: Memories of a Migrant by Dr. Dina Sevayega

Poetry: Las Glorias de Mejico (Spanish Edition) by Dr. Dina Sevayega

Research Paper

The Prevalence of Resilience and the Educational Trajectory of a Migrant Worker: A Case Study