For the past two years, the Inspire Films Symposium on Social Issue Media has provided a one-of-a-kind outlet for dialogue and education about world affairs and the media. With a variety of programming, Symposium lets students and experts interact around a common interest of socially conscious media with panels, film screenings, keynote speakers, and casual conversation.

Past Symposium Guests:

Hoop Dreams director, co-editor, and producer Steve James
Director of Photography for Hoop Dreams Peter Gilbert
Jewel McPherson
Photographer  Michael Bracey
Chicago Reporter publisher Alden Loury
Orion Pahl, Invisible Children
Alex Gibney, Director, Taxi to the Dark Side
Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Co-Directors, Trouble the Water
Andrew Mer, SnagFilms
John Scheinfeld, Writer & Director, The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Gloria Z. Greenfield, Producer, The Case for Israel: Democracy’s Outpost
Eric Brown, CEO of ImpactGames
Julie Dobrow, Tufts University
Elizabeth Jacoway, Author & Historian
Diane Rosenfeld, Harvard Law School

Check out the photos from 2010 here!