The Visual Culture Working Group (VIC) will be holding online elections for one vice-chair position, for the term 2024 - 2028.
The elections will be held online from 23 April to 14 May using the SurveyMonkey platform. Individual members and representatives of institutional members in good standing, who are also registered as members of the Visual Culture Working Group (VIC) will be eligible to stand for a position and to vote. Voters will receive a voting link on 23 April.
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See the candidates and read their statements below.
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More information and timeline at https://iamcr.org/s-wg/elections2024
Candidates
Statements
Govind ji Pandey (Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, India)
Professor and Dean, School of Media and Communication, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India
I would like to volunteer my skills for the position of vice-chair as a member of the International Association of Mass Communication Research's Visual Culture Working Group. I am a media practitioner as well as an academician working as Professor and Dean, School of Media and Communication, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India.
My career as an academician began in 2002 when I was hired as an assistant professor at the GGSIP University of New Delhi's Madhubala Institute of Communication and Electronic Media. I closely collaborated with students and oversaw their video creation from 2002 to 2008. Numerous student films took home awards at prominent film festivals. Guneet Monga, a Madhubal student, was the producer of the documentary films Periods End of Sentence and Elephant Whispers, which won Oscar awards.
I have had a number of academic and administrative roles at Babsaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University in Lucknow, India, where I currently serve as a professor. Ten doctoral candidates and one post-doctoral candidate have received Ph.D. and Post-doctoral degrees thus far after successfully defending their theses.
My area of expertise is cinema research, and I have overseen projects related to documentaries, Bhojpuri, Hindi, and noir films, as well as the deconstruction of reality in Hindi Cinema.
One of the films produced as part of research work got first prize with a cash award of Rs. 75 thousand , in the prestigious India’s International Science Film Festival. Apart from that, my articles are published in many journals in India and abroad.
As a candidate, I would love to contribute in the intercultural symbols and cinematic sociology, social life in films, so that the students can better understand the film as an important discipline for exploring, presenting, suggesting, social construct and developing a manual for cinema lovers to read films from a different perspective.