AFfacts: Emotions and Bodies in Journalism and Documentary Work

What role do emotions and bodily experiences play in producing facts? Join us for the launch of AFfacts, a new research project at the University of Amsterdam exploring how journalists and documentary filmmakers navigate emotions, embodied knowledge, and the pursuit of factual accuracy.

Journalism and documentary filmmaking are often associated with objectivity, evidence, and factual accuracy. Yet the production of facts is also shaped by the emotions, bodily experiences, and situated perspectives of the people involved. How do journalists and documentary filmmakers experience the stories they investigate and tell? What kinds of knowledge emerge through emotional and embodied encounters with the world? And how might acknowledging these experiences contribute to our understanding of fact-based media production?

Join us for the launch of AFfacts, a five-year research project based at the University of Amsterdam that investigates the role of emotions and bodies in fact-based media production. During the event, the research team will introduce the project and share their individual research interests, spanning journalism, documentary filmmaking, and the intersections of emotions, bodies, and knowledge production. The presentations will be followed by a Q&A session, offering an opportunity to meet the researchers, discuss the project’s central questions, and explore its future directions. We will conclude with informal drinks and conversation.

Programme

15:00-15:30 Welcome

15:30-17:00 Meet the Team

17:00-18:00 Drinks and Conversation

Speakers

Practical Information

Everyone is welcome to attend, but please do sign-up via the link mentioned above. The event will take place at VOX-POP (ground floor), Binnengasthuisstraat 9.