Message posted on 06/08/2018
EASA conference: Panels and events interesting for visual and media anthropologists
Dear list members,
the EASA conference next week in Stockholm offers various panels, labs and a
film programme which might be interesting for visual and media
anthropologists. See list below.
Difficult to find in the EASA program are the Network meetings.
The Media Anthropology Network Meeting will be Thursday, 15.8 from 17-18:45 in
room S-D307
The Visual Anthropology (VANEASA) Network Meeting will be Friday, 16.8 from
19-20:30 in room S-D207
EASA Film programme you find here:
https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2018/films
EASA panels
(P078) Working with images in (un-)stable times [VANEASA]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6559
Visual anthropologists collaborate in manifold ways with people who are on the
move, settling down or staying behind to document and analyse their situation.
What are the advantages of working with images in these contexts? What are the
experiences and which types of publication are most rewarding?
(P077) Death, mourning, and commemoration through shifting landscapes
[VANEASA]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6617
We focus on the visual representations of death as well as mourning and
commemoration practices in the wake of migrations, displacements, settlements
and readjustments following epochal shifts, e.g. wars, socialism, colonialism,
and their post-cursors, in communities left behind and receiving ones.
(P074) Negotiating imaginaries: explorations of vernacular audiovisual
production
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6575
This panel will discuss ethnographic possibilities for approaching the
relevant fields of "vernacular" audiovisual practices and archives. Focusing
on field-based research we will explore how these videos are produced from an
economic, political and aesthetic perspective.
(P075) Grace: Unexpected moments in ethnographic films
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6663
This panel invites anthropologists to explore moments of unexpected wonder in
ethnographic film. We wish to understand how such moments are related to the
specific modes of cultural critique that can be produced in film.
(P096) Aesthetic Encounters: The Politics Of Moving And (Un)settling Visual
Arts, Design And Literature
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6340
The panel explores the politics of moving and (un)settling visual arts, design
and literature. Reflecting encounters of conflicting authority, knowledge and
aesthetics ranging from curating to publishing, it also considers impacts on
methods and writing genres, market, materiality and globalization.
(P076) The Visual Art of Refugees: expressions of flight and exile
[Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia Network Panel]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6333
In this panel we seek anthropological works that introduce and reflect on the
rich repertoire of refugees visual productions and art expressions. Panel
participants should address how anthropology of visual art intersects with the
scholarship of refugees, exile, and border crossing.
(P098) Art and Nativism [Anthropology and the Arts Network]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6521
Over the last years, we witnessed a spread of nativist movements across the
globe. Reacting to perceived threats of migration and globalisation, they
frequently stress nation and belonging. What can we learn from the relations
between art, identity, and mobility to think through such movements?
(P067) The Digital Turn: New Directions in Media Anthropology [Media
Anthropology Network]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6386
This panel recognizes the digital turn as a paradigm shift in the
anthropological study of media, and aims to push further the ethnographic
knowledge into the role that digital media play in people's everyday life and
broader sociopolitical transformations.
(P068) Imaginaries, Media and Tourism
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6687
This panel seeks research on the new ways tourist imaginaries are constructed
and exchanged, with a focus on new forms of ritualized mediation (like the
social media) emphasizing increased participation and feedback, in commercial
as well as in personal communications.
EASA Labs which might be interesting for visual and media anthropologists:
https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2018/labs
(L001) Stories that settle and move: surprise, humour and reciprocal trust in
anthropological storytelling
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7029
The lab explores the power of anthropological storytelling to move beyond
space and across time drawing on the magic of ethnographic surprise.
(L002) A lab on labs: documenting open formats [#Colleex network]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7030
Let's explore the experimental, heterodox and imaginative world of labs and
open formats that get us together. We will discuss their relevance as
pedagogical spaces for ethnographic experimentation and the need to document
these methodologies so that they may travel, learnt and reproduced elsewhere.
(L006) Should I stay, or should I go? Teaching about migration choices with
digital ethnographies [TAN]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7034
The reasons why people move and settle somewhere new are often poorly
understood by those who never get to make such choices. This collaborative lab
asks participants to explore what these reasons may be through a collaborative
gaming session of The Long Day of Young Peng, a digital ethnography.
To participate, please contact a.e.pia(at)lse.ac.uk by the 13th of August.
Participants should bring their own laptops or preferred web-browsing
devices.
(L008) An imaginative 'doing' workshop
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7036
Art-based methods are increasingly used to capture the more-than-human,
more-than-textual, multisensual realities of contemporary fieldwork. In this
lab, we experience how these methods can help us - as scholars - as a practice
of knowledge through four imaginative exercises.
(L009) Migration of gestures: the process of decoding Indian dance mudras in
Christian context
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7037
This lab offers the chance to go through the process of decoding I experienced
during my research about the gestures of Indian dance and their migration in
the Christian context. This method involves embodiment, elicitation and
drawing.
To participate, please preregister via mcmortillaro(at)gmail.com
(L012) The conference as sensorial field site: embodying knowledge
dissemination, recording experience
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7040
In order to tend to the phenomenology of producing and sharing knowledge, this
lab engages the conference through sensorial ethnography. It consists of a
research experiment focused on how we inhabit the spaces of EASA '18. Our
collective output will feature as an episode in the City Talks podcast.
N.B.! interested participants should get in touch with convenors beforehand
via carolina.frossard(at)gmail.com and s.e.gilsing(at)uu.nl
(L013) Working with translocal families and children: experimenting with
visual, artwork and participatory methodologies
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7041
Convenors have worked ethnographically for many years with children in
translocal families. We invite lab participants to engage with each other in
hands-on learning, working with creative, experimental, and participatory
methodologies that reach out to the lived experience of people on the move.
(L014) Following mobilities through digital media: a toolbox for digital
ethnographers
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7042
This workshop invites ethnographic researchers who seek to understand the role
of media practices in mobile cultures. Attendees will reflect on experimental
forms of gathering and presenting data from digital media platforms and craft
methodologies for researching digital mobilities. Please email
christian.ritter(at)ntnu.no and m.humbracht(at)surrey.ac.uk) to participate!
(L015) Skin and body movement lab
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7043
This practical workshop will investigate the body and boundaries, focusing on
the skin as a porous surface marked by experience. How to extend ways of
thinking and feeling with the skin? We will move, listen, talk and question
through movement and mark-making.
(L016) Bodies-in-motion: experiencing the role of 'moving' in anthropological
praxis [AnthroMob]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7044
This outdoor lab allows participants to acknowledge and challenge issues of
pace, rhythm, tempo, velocity and flow surrounding their own movements as well
as the people, 'things' and contexts circulating around them, be it during
fieldwork or while teaching. Pre-registration is mandatory.
I am looking forward to meet you in Stockholm
Best wishes
Beate Engelbrecht
**************************************************************
Dr. Beate Engelbrecht
Co-ordinator of the
Visual Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social
Anthropologists
VANEASA
beate.engelbrecht[at]sowi.uni-goettingen.de
http://www.easaonline.org/networks/vaneasa/
http://www.vaneasa.eu
**************************************************************
_______________________________________________
Vaneasa mailing list
Vaneasa@lists.easaonline.org
http://lists.easaonline.org/listinfo.cgi/vaneasa-easaonline.org
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the EASA conference next week in Stockholm offers various panels, labs and a
film programme which might be interesting for visual and media
anthropologists. See list below.
Difficult to find in the EASA program are the Network meetings.
The Media Anthropology Network Meeting will be Thursday, 15.8 from 17-18:45 in
room S-D307
The Visual Anthropology (VANEASA) Network Meeting will be Friday, 16.8 from
19-20:30 in room S-D207
EASA Film programme you find here:
https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2018/films
EASA panels
(P078) Working with images in (un-)stable times [VANEASA]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6559
Visual anthropologists collaborate in manifold ways with people who are on the
move, settling down or staying behind to document and analyse their situation.
What are the advantages of working with images in these contexts? What are the
experiences and which types of publication are most rewarding?
(P077) Death, mourning, and commemoration through shifting landscapes
[VANEASA]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6617
We focus on the visual representations of death as well as mourning and
commemoration practices in the wake of migrations, displacements, settlements
and readjustments following epochal shifts, e.g. wars, socialism, colonialism,
and their post-cursors, in communities left behind and receiving ones.
(P074) Negotiating imaginaries: explorations of vernacular audiovisual
production
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6575
This panel will discuss ethnographic possibilities for approaching the
relevant fields of "vernacular" audiovisual practices and archives. Focusing
on field-based research we will explore how these videos are produced from an
economic, political and aesthetic perspective.
(P075) Grace: Unexpected moments in ethnographic films
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6663
This panel invites anthropologists to explore moments of unexpected wonder in
ethnographic film. We wish to understand how such moments are related to the
specific modes of cultural critique that can be produced in film.
(P096) Aesthetic Encounters: The Politics Of Moving And (Un)settling Visual
Arts, Design And Literature
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6340
The panel explores the politics of moving and (un)settling visual arts, design
and literature. Reflecting encounters of conflicting authority, knowledge and
aesthetics ranging from curating to publishing, it also considers impacts on
methods and writing genres, market, materiality and globalization.
(P076) The Visual Art of Refugees: expressions of flight and exile
[Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia Network Panel]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6333
In this panel we seek anthropological works that introduce and reflect on the
rich repertoire of refugees visual productions and art expressions. Panel
participants should address how anthropology of visual art intersects with the
scholarship of refugees, exile, and border crossing.
(P098) Art and Nativism [Anthropology and the Arts Network]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6521
Over the last years, we witnessed a spread of nativist movements across the
globe. Reacting to perceived threats of migration and globalisation, they
frequently stress nation and belonging. What can we learn from the relations
between art, identity, and mobility to think through such movements?
(P067) The Digital Turn: New Directions in Media Anthropology [Media
Anthropology Network]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6386
This panel recognizes the digital turn as a paradigm shift in the
anthropological study of media, and aims to push further the ethnographic
knowledge into the role that digital media play in people's everyday life and
broader sociopolitical transformations.
(P068) Imaginaries, Media and Tourism
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6687
This panel seeks research on the new ways tourist imaginaries are constructed
and exchanged, with a focus on new forms of ritualized mediation (like the
social media) emphasizing increased participation and feedback, in commercial
as well as in personal communications.
EASA Labs which might be interesting for visual and media anthropologists:
https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2018/labs
(L001) Stories that settle and move: surprise, humour and reciprocal trust in
anthropological storytelling
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7029
The lab explores the power of anthropological storytelling to move beyond
space and across time drawing on the magic of ethnographic surprise.
(L002) A lab on labs: documenting open formats [#Colleex network]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7030
Let's explore the experimental, heterodox and imaginative world of labs and
open formats that get us together. We will discuss their relevance as
pedagogical spaces for ethnographic experimentation and the need to document
these methodologies so that they may travel, learnt and reproduced elsewhere.
(L006) Should I stay, or should I go? Teaching about migration choices with
digital ethnographies [TAN]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7034
The reasons why people move and settle somewhere new are often poorly
understood by those who never get to make such choices. This collaborative lab
asks participants to explore what these reasons may be through a collaborative
gaming session of The Long Day of Young Peng, a digital ethnography.
To participate, please contact a.e.pia(at)lse.ac.uk by the 13th of August.
Participants should bring their own laptops or preferred web-browsing
devices.
(L008) An imaginative 'doing' workshop
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7036
Art-based methods are increasingly used to capture the more-than-human,
more-than-textual, multisensual realities of contemporary fieldwork. In this
lab, we experience how these methods can help us - as scholars - as a practice
of knowledge through four imaginative exercises.
(L009) Migration of gestures: the process of decoding Indian dance mudras in
Christian context
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7037
This lab offers the chance to go through the process of decoding I experienced
during my research about the gestures of Indian dance and their migration in
the Christian context. This method involves embodiment, elicitation and
drawing.
To participate, please preregister via mcmortillaro(at)gmail.com
(L012) The conference as sensorial field site: embodying knowledge
dissemination, recording experience
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7040
In order to tend to the phenomenology of producing and sharing knowledge, this
lab engages the conference through sensorial ethnography. It consists of a
research experiment focused on how we inhabit the spaces of EASA '18. Our
collective output will feature as an episode in the City Talks podcast.
N.B.! interested participants should get in touch with convenors beforehand
via carolina.frossard(at)gmail.com and s.e.gilsing(at)uu.nl
(L013) Working with translocal families and children: experimenting with
visual, artwork and participatory methodologies
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7041
Convenors have worked ethnographically for many years with children in
translocal families. We invite lab participants to engage with each other in
hands-on learning, working with creative, experimental, and participatory
methodologies that reach out to the lived experience of people on the move.
(L014) Following mobilities through digital media: a toolbox for digital
ethnographers
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7042
This workshop invites ethnographic researchers who seek to understand the role
of media practices in mobile cultures. Attendees will reflect on experimental
forms of gathering and presenting data from digital media platforms and craft
methodologies for researching digital mobilities. Please email
christian.ritter(at)ntnu.no and m.humbracht(at)surrey.ac.uk) to participate!
(L015) Skin and body movement lab
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7043
This practical workshop will investigate the body and boundaries, focusing on
the skin as a porous surface marked by experience. How to extend ways of
thinking and feeling with the skin? We will move, listen, talk and question
through movement and mark-making.
(L016) Bodies-in-motion: experiencing the role of 'moving' in anthropological
praxis [AnthroMob]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7044
This outdoor lab allows participants to acknowledge and challenge issues of
pace, rhythm, tempo, velocity and flow surrounding their own movements as well
as the people, 'things' and contexts circulating around them, be it during
fieldwork or while teaching. Pre-registration is mandatory.
I am looking forward to meet you in Stockholm
Best wishes
Beate Engelbrecht
**************************************************************
Dr. Beate Engelbrecht
Co-ordinator of the
Visual Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social
Anthropologists
VANEASA
beate.engelbrecht[at]sowi.uni-goettingen.de
http://www.easaonline.org/networks/vaneasa/
http://www.vaneasa.eu
**************************************************************
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Vaneasa mailing list
Vaneasa@lists.easaonline.org
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