UCR Media and Cultural Studies

05/28/2026

05/28/2026

✨CONGRATS CLASS OF 2026 🎓🎉✨

On Tuesday, June 9th from 11:30AM to 2:30 PM at UCR Campus in INTS 1113, we would like to warmly invite you and your loved ones to come celebrate our MCS graduates with us at our MCS Graduation Ceremony 👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓🏆

Awards will be presented for the film and poster submissions from our students and food and refreshments will be provided 😊

05/27/2026

✨SUBMISSIONS DUE THIS FRI (5/29)🎥🏆✨

Calling all student filmmakers! MCS is currently accepting submissions of student-made films for our Best Short Film Award that will be announced at the MCS Graduation Ceremony on June 9th 🎓

Swipe through for more information on how to submit your film! ⬅️

05/26/2026

Screening, Conversation & Workshop with Filmmaker Raed El Rafei
Friday, May 29 10:30 a.m.
INTS 1128

The conversation will be moderated by UCR Professors Christophe Katrib (Theatre, Film, and Digital Production) and Courtney R. Baker (Department of English).

Later at 3 p.m., Raed El Rafei will lead a two-hour workshop for UCR students.

Presented by

Cosponsors: Middle Eastern Student Center (MESC), LGBT Resource Center, Department of English, Media and Cultural Studies, Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS), UCR ARTS, Center for Ideas and Society (CIS), Political Science, Comparative Literature & Languages.

05/08/2026

Join us THIS Friday for UCR ARTS AAPI Film Series! Free Admission!

Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “The Godfather of Asian American film,” but his son, Tad, calls him Dad. As the filmmaking son of a filmmaking legend, Tad uses the lessons his dad taught him to decipher the legacy of an aging man who was a child survivor of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans, a successful photographer who gave it up to tell his own story, an activist at the dawn of a social movement—and a father whose struggles have won his son freedoms that eluded Japanese Americans of his generation. As Parkinson’s Disease clouds his memory, Tad sets out to retrieve his story—and in the process discovers his own. The two have made films together, with Robert always by Tad’s side. THIRD ACT is most likely the last.

The screening will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura.

🔗 Visit thttps://ucrarts.ucr.edu/films/third-act/ to reserve your free tickets now!

Image: Photographer – Robert A. Nakamura, Courtesy of THIRD ACT, ©Robert A. Nakamura

05/07/2026

Affiliated with our 49th annual Writers Week festival, please join us on Thu., May 7, at 5 p.m. for a screening of the film "Mija."

Location: INTS 1128
Free and open to the public

Full schedule: writersweek.ucr.edu/schedule2026

04/24/2026

Summer Sessions with MCS ☀️

Registration is open now for Summer Sessions with MCS courses available (in-person and online options)

Swipe through to view MCS course offerings available this summer 💻⬅️

04/24/2026

Coming up soon! 🗓️✨

Check out some of these upcoming events at UCR:

04/16/2026

The Urgency of Black Study

We are in a moment of political attack that targets specific humanities fields. The knowledge and scholarship of Black studies, q***r studies, Indigenous studies, and ethnic studies will persist because our work is indispensable, precious, and beautifully disruptive.
— Dylan Rodríguez, Black Study/Media & Cultural Studies Distinguished Professor and Co-Director, CIS

The Center is joining American Council of Learned Societies for the campaign to showcase how our research helps navigate a complex society.

02/26/2026

INCREDIBLE news to celebrate!!👏🎉

Congratulations to Prof. John Jennings and Damien Duffy for their NAACP Image Award win for Outstanding Literary Work - Graphic Novel for Parable of the Talents!!! 🏆🌟