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nafa:// Editorial ………………………………………………………. 2 News from the Commission on Visual Anthropology (CVA) …. 3 31st NAFA Symposium: "People Over the Sea" ………………. 6 Photography and Cinematography in Qajar Era Iran …………. 8 Athens Ethnographic Film Festival: Call For Films 2011 ……. 9 Days of Ethnographic Cinema 2011: Call for entries ………… 10 network Regard Bleu: Festival for ethnographic student film and media 10 Call for entries: VERZIO HR Doc Film Fest ……………….. 11 vol. 18.2 (June 2011) SVA panel at AAA 2011 “Signs in the City” ………………… 11 Newsletter of the Nordic Anthropological Film Association 12th RAI FESTIVAL 2011 …………………………………. 11 Incorporating the Commission of Visual Anthropology (CVA) Circular Call for papers - Networked Revolts ………………………… 12
Web version: http://www.nafa.uib.no New Programmes and courses in Portugal ISCTE/IUL …….... 13 ISSN: 0805 - 1046 Spanish Ethnographic Documentary Film Festival ………….. 14
Please send news, articles and announcements to: Review of the Festival of Ethnographic Film, Sofia, Bulgaria … 15
NOTICE BOARD …………………………………………... 17 Berit Madsen, Anne Mette Jorgensen and Christian Suhr Department of Anthropology CALENDAR ………………………………………………… 23 Moesgaard
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Editorial
By Berit Madsen, Anne Mette Jørgensen and Christian Suhr
Dear readers,
In this volume we send you the latest news of the 31st event. For more information on NAFA 2011, please sophisticated experimenting with sound in International Nordic Anthropological Film Association visit: http://www.st- ethnographic film deserves mention. Our thoughts go (NAFA) Symposium: "People Over the Sea: Nordic and andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/anthropology/nafa. to Perle and Virgil, and to colleagues and friends at les Scottish Perspectives". The film selection committee of Ateliers Varan. this year’s NAFA Film Festival will gather in a few Below Metje Postma send you an update on news from weeks’ time to finalize the film program of NAFA 2011. CVA, followed by announcements of Ethnographic Deadline for the next volume is October 5, 2011 We’ll send out a special volume dedicated to NAFA visual events in the months to come. In this volume we 2011 Film Festival in the beginning of August. have a substantial list of news and announcements in On the occasion of this year’s NAFA programme, the the Notice Board, and, finally, the Calendar. Department of Social Anthropology in St. Andrews will host a Symposium “Photography and Cinematography Sad news have reached us that French filmmaker and in Qajar Era Iran. In Memoriam: Farrokh Ghafari longterm friend of NAFA, Vincent Blanchet passed (1921-2006)”. We bring you information on this event away on March 13 after months of struggles against below. cancer. Vincent Blanchet was a driving force in les Ateliers Varan in Paris and many of us knew him as an We hope to see many of you in late August in St. enthusiastic and original teacher and/or friend. Vincent Andrews, Scotland, the beautiful location of this year’s directed numerous films in France, and not least his
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News from the Commission on Visual Anthropology (CVA)
By Metje Postma ([email protected], Chairman of the CVA)
1. The Perth IUAES/ InterCongress 2. Change of editorial Board of the The congress will be hosted by the University of 2011 Journal for Visual Anthropology Manchester, and will take place from Monday, August 5 to Saturday, August 10, 2013. From 5 till 8 July, the Perth IUAES Intercongress will In March 2011 a shift in the editorial board of the soon take place in Perth, Western Australia, in Visual Anthropology Journal (Editor: Paul Hockings) The call for panel proposals for IUAES 2013 is now cooperation with the Australian Anthropological was announced. The new editorial board consists of: open! The deadline for panel proposals is 1st August Society (AAS) and the Association of Social 2011. Please read the information on website and see Anthropologists of Aotearoa / New Zealand Sylvia Caiuby Novaes Brazil the General Organization and Tracks and Panels (ASAANZ), on the University of Western Australia’s Chan Kwok-bun Hong Kong sections of the site for further details. We invite all campus along the Swan River. Peter Ian Crawford Denmark Visual Anthropologists who would like their panels to Joyce Hammond USA be organised together with the CVA (Commission on There will be an extensive film program along the three Paul Henley United Kingdom Visual Anthropology) to submit their panel-proposals, day conference program with panels, organized by RAI Luc de Heusch Belgium films and other suggestions before the 20th of July at: festival programmer: Susanne Hammaxher, Lisa Rolf Husmann Germany [email protected] Stefanoff and Caro McDonald. Emphasis will be put on Jayasinhji Jhala India films from the region and films made in a participatory David MacDougall Australia The Congress will be built around a series of thematic mode. The full program will soon be available at the Rosella Ragazzi Norway tracks. The organization strives for most panels to fit IUAES website. Keyan Tomaselli South Africa into one or other of these tracks, but do not seek to Jean-François Werner France exclude panels that fall outside these themes and sub- There will be two Visual Anthropology Panels: themes. These themes are: 1. Ethnographic films and their audiences in a globalising world: the role of film in public 3. The 2013 IUAES Congress, • Being Human anthropology convened by Caro MacDonald (co- Manchester 05- 10 August 2013 • Life and Death convened by Susanne Hammacher), and • Producing the Earth 2 Subtitling Ethnographic Films: Knowledge And In 2013 the next IUAES Congress will take place in • Survival and Extinction Value In Translation, Co-convenor: Jinghong Zhang Manchester. (see http://www.iuaes2013.org/) • The World of the Mind and the Mind in the World co-convenor: Darja Hoenigman, • Movement, Mobility and Migration
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Panel proposals should be submitted in the normal way. Quailty criteria for the assessment of Depending on the topic, it is possible also to study the Information about how to propose films for screening ethnographic films visual practice of the focus group itself (private at the congress and the address to which they should be collection of photos, footage, etc.) sent for evaluation will appear on the ‘Visual Anthropology page’ in mid-2011 Background Second phase: Ethnographic research in the focus (http://www.iuaes2013.org/Visual.html) How to assess ethnographic films that are submitted as group, respectively, researching the topic Seminar- BA or MA projects, is always subject to selection and inspection of the locations debate. Uncertainty arises amongst others, in relation to contacting potential protagonists and explanation of 4. Discussion on the Evaluation the question: what is the right approach for the their intentions Criteria of ethnographic Films production of an ethnographic film. The definition of quality criteria can therefore not be seen separate from Third phase: Methodological use of the camera and In the last NAFA/CVA Newsletter we invited Visual that question. The following summary, therefore first formal-aesthetic decisions (observational cinema, Anthropologists to enter the discussion on the sketches a ‘model’ for the process of producing an dialogical, evocative, subjective inclusion of fictional assessment and accreditation of Ethnographic films and ethnographic film And describes based on that a elements, re-enactment, application of the feedback Anthropological Documentaries. (I suggest to use the selection of the most important quality-criteria. method (elicitation technique), cinéma vérité, term: ethnographic films for films on specific (aspects The proposed process is not intended to be perceived as experimental, etc.). Determination of the target of) communities with a primarily denotative character, normative, but as empirical knowledge, which audience. Writing of a treatment (in the observational whilst ‘anthropological documentaries’ refers to the highlights possible steps of action for those students mode: by the filmmaker, in a participatory mode documentary cinematic genre of films that includes an that may want to make an ethnographic film, in the together with research partners). Selection of the anthropological analytical interpretation in form and production process. technical equipment. Ev. Fundraising. Ev. Obtaining a content.) film-permit 1. Approach to the production of ethnographic films We received the following guidelines from the president - Description of the research, production and post 1.2 Production of the Audiovisual Commission of the Swiss production process Recording in the field Ethnological Society: Tommi Mendel. These are used The following summary is based on the film production - Variant a) Observer Mode for the assessment of ethnographic films in academia in process and can only partly be transferred to other Participant observation with the camera in the Switzerland. media. The procedure described is designed according treatment in focused areas. Target (depending on to the function that a production must fulfill and to the treatment): maximum participation in social life We invite all other Visual Anthropologists that are audience it is intended for, in different ways. In involved in academic assessments of ethnographic particular with regard to the question of whether the - Variant b) Participatory approach Films, to send us their guidelines, so we publish them in product is intended for academic or applied Discussion of existing themes, determining the film- the NAFA/CVA Newsletter, and prepare a thorough anthropology. locations and moments with the research partners discussion during the next CVA meeting and panels at - Optionional:. Use the feedback method the IUAES Congress in Manchester in the United 1.1 Research / Preparation - Optional: Procurement of visual documents of the Kingdom. The CVA will organize a panel where the First phase: in analogy to survey in case of doing focus group issue will be further discussed and joint guidelines will research for a written work, the first Step, consists of - viewing of the recorded material be proposed and developed to function as a model for studying existing (visual) representations of the focus academic assessment of audio-visual productions and group or of the research topic (films, reports, scientific 1.3 Post-production multimedia-projects in anthropology. work, TV productions, etc.) – - For large amount of material producing a cut list (with details of the Time Code) NAFA Network vol. 18.2 (June 2011): News and Announcements 5
- Cutting / Montage - Is the film mainly depending on dialogues respectively - Did the purposes of goal-oriented approach and field a) observational mode, by the filmmaker on interviews? research with the research group lead to the required b) participatory mode, together with research partners - Is the person interviewing respectively, the filmmakers scientific results? - the visual examination of the rough cut with the in the picture? Which ‘statement’ is connected with - Is the (methodological) approach in the written work research partners / representatives of the target audience that choice? presented plausible and convincing? - Final cut - Is the film with long or short sequences? - Are the technical and respectively formal aesthetic
decisions, discussed critically in relation to their 1.4 Distribution - What with the rhythm in the statement? respective impact on how the content is - Dependent on the target group - What functions have certain cinematic settings as communicated? - Dependent on the medium close-ups, respectively. Long shot? - Did the method used - for example the feedback - What role have the original sound, respectively technology - achieve the desired objectives? 1.5 Evaluation / writing of the accompanying text mounted to the music? - Critical reflection about the methods chosen field - Have your own action, the chosen genre, respectively, - Is the film with a commenting voice off? research, the choice of the genre / style/ documentation the stylistic devices been reflected upon in a critical and justification of each step, from research to - If it is narrative, and if so to what effect? manner (eg, strengths and weaknesses of the distribution/ cooperation with research partners/ the - Special effects are used? audiovisual media in the context of the subject selection of the protagonists, etc. - Appears in the film text and with what effect? matter)? - Discussion of the work in relation with the theory of - The film is subtitled? - Has the researchers own behavior and way of visual anthropology / Media Anthropology engagement been adequately integrated in the theory - Etc. - Theoretical and practical implications for the sub- of visual anthropology / media anthropology? discipline of visual anthropology /Media Anthropology
The description and analysis of the style of a film helps 2.3 Scientific quality, innovation, originality and ethical to identify scientific evidence and to asses and judge the acceptability 2. Quality criteria for the assessment of ethnographic formal aesthetic interpretation in their films interconnectedness. Formal-aesthetic approach, innovation and originality
The scientific quality is as said closely tied to the 2.1 Assessment of the (cinematic) product: scientific 2.2 Assessment of the approach and its reflection in the formal-aesthetic realization of the cognitive aim. So in intentions, knowledge and formal-aesthetic approach written work: adequacy of the (methodological) approach assessing the Montage should be considered whether and use the (technical) resources and in what way the presented ethnographic material In principle the evaluation of the scientific and formal- (percepts) require factual context within the montage. aesthetic quality of an audiovisual product, should be Depending on the function of the product (Archival But also in terms of innovativeness and originality of considered as one analytical unit. In the written material for further processing and analysis, production, the film project, the formal-aesthetic approach plays a assessment therefore cinematic scenes and sequences, which contributes to the theoretical discussion, didactic central role. In particular, we assess whether and how the use of camera, sound and lighting, and specific teaching film for the mass media of certain film, the camera through its use itself has become a research assembly techniques should be woven into the commissioned film in applied anthropology, etc.), what tool. argument. The quality of an ethnographic film is based should be assessed is how the methodology is presented largely on the quality of previous research, respectively in the written work and expressed in the film : Ethical considerations the research with the camera. The following criteria are - Inherent in the use of the medium film is that the limited to the style of the film: relationship of the ethnographer with the subjects is
NAFA Network vol. 18.2 (June 2011): News and Announcements 6 visible in the material itself - for example in the manner - For the release of a film, other criteria have to be Kathrin Oester, in cooperation with the Audiovisual in which the protagonists react to the filmmaker -. The considered than for scientific text, as film potentially Committee of the Swiss Ethnological Society film material thus allows conclusions on the reaches a wider audience. In particular, visual materials January 201 relationship between researcher and research partners. are not anonymous and its publication requires prior arrangements with the protagonists.
The 31st International Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA) Symposium: "People Over the Sea: Nordic and Scottish Perspectives"(29-30 August 2011)
By Dr. Pedram Khosronejad ([email protected])
As the University of St Andrews celebrates its 600th Speakers Marianne E. Lien anniversary, the Department of Social Anthropology Department of Social Anthropology, University of welcomes you to the 31st International Nordic Lauren Doughton Oslo, Norway Anthropological Film Association (NAFA) Symposium: PhD Candidate, Department of Archaeology, “Fluid livelihoods: Reconceptualising Communities in "People Over the Sea: Nordic and Scottish University of Manchester, U.K. the Coastal North” Perspectives" (29-30 August 2011) “Walking on Water: Blurring the Boundaries Between Land and Sea in Prehistoric Shetland” Gro B. Ween Department of Social Anthropology, University of Conveners Cristián Simonetti Oslo, Norway Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, “Stories from Tanafjord: An Elaboration on Forms of Prof. T. Ingold (Dept. of Anthropology, University of Scotland fluidity” Aberdeen) “Moving on Land and Underwater: Changing Dr. P. Khosronejad (Dept. of Social Anthropology, Mediums and the Imposition of Silke Reeploeg University of St Andrews) Dimensional Space” Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands, U.K. NAFA Network vol. 18.2 (June 2011): News and Announcements 7
“Of Boats and Men: Flows of Objects, Narratives and Peter I. Crawford For booking your place and Memory in Shetland and Visual Cultural Studies/Institute of Archaeology and registration, please visit Western Norway” Social Anthropology, University of Tromsö, Norway “People of the Sea and People of the Land. Visual http://www.st- Catherine Turnbull Representation(s) of Two andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/anthropology/nafa/registratio Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands Neighbouring Communities in the Reef Islands” n and Islands, U.K. “Singing Around the North Atlantic Rim: the Voyage Confirmed speakers For Enquiries, additional information of Two Songs” and details, please contact http://www.st- Andrew Jennings andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/anthropology/nafa/nafa/spea Dr Pedram Khosronejad ([email protected]) Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands kers and Islands, U.K. “There Will be Gaels in South Iceland, Faeroes and Fair Speaker biographies Isle” http://www.st- Dr. Pedram Khosronejad
andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/anthropology/nafa/nafa/biog Department of Social Anthropology Bente Sundsvold raphies 71 North Street Visual Cultural Studies, University of Tromsö, Norway University of St. Andrews “Eider Performances” St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland KY16 9AL Programme Tel: +44 (1334) 461968 Johanna Markkula http://www.st- Fax: +44 (1334) 462985 École des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, Pari s, andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/anthropology/nafa/nafa/prog Email: [email protected] France ramme “Changing Course”: Navigating the Global Maritime Industry Abstracts
Rolf Scott http://www.st- University of Bergen, Norway andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/anthropology/nafa/nafa/abstr “The Yacht, the Individual, a Global Heartland, and acts Ideal Individuality” Website of conference http://www.st- andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/anthropology/nafa/nafa/conf erence
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Symposium: Photography and Cinematography in Qajar Era Iran (27-28 August 2011) In Memoriam: Farrokh Ghafari (1921-2006)
University of St Andrews Fereydoun Barjesteh, International Qajar Studies Carmen Perez Gonzalez, Museum of East Asian Art, The Department of Social Anthropology Association Cologne, Germany “Persia through the Lens of a Dutch Industrialist: the “World Art Studies and Local Photography: A On the occasion of this year’s NAFA programme, the Albert Hotz Collection of 19th Photographs at Leiden Comparative Visual Analysis between Nineteenth- Department of Social Anthropology will host the University” Century Iranian Portrait Photography and Persian Symposium: Photography and Cinematography in Painting” Qajar Era Iran (27-28 August 2011). In Memoriam: Mirjam Brusius, PhD Candidate, University of Farrokh Ghafari (1921-2006) Cambridge, U.K. Nasim Khalesi and Sana Khalesi, Islamic Azad “Image problems: Photographic (self-)representations of University, Abadan Branch, Abadan, Iran Conveners Persia by Nasser Al-Din Shah and European travelling “Photography and Its Impact on the Qajar Era Seven- artists in the mid 19th century (late Qajar Era)” Color Tiling in Shiraz” Dr. P. Khosronejad (Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of St Layla Diba, Independent Researcher, U.S.A. Basak Kilerci, PhD Candidate, Bogazici University, Andrews) “Qajar Photography and its Influence on Modern and Turkey Contemporary Persian Painting” “Portraiture in Qajar Iran and Ottoman Empire: A Prof. M. M. Eskandari-Qajar Comparative Approach” (President, IQSA; Director, Middle East Studies Ali Gholipoor, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Program, Santa Barbara City College, USA) Iran Ali Mir-Ansari, Head of Persian literature Department, “Photographic Documentation of Tazieh and Taqlid in The Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, Confirmed speakers during the Qajar Era in Iran” Tehran, Iran “Theatre or Cinema? The Impact of Two Dramatic Julia Allerstorfer, Catholic Private University Linz, Arts on Political and Social Thought in Iran during the Austria Constitutional Period, 1903-1925” “The Photographical Depiction of Women in the
Imperial Qajar Harem” NAFA Network vol. 18.2 (June 2011): News and Announcements 9
Golbarg Rekabtalaei, PhD Candidate, University of Website of conference: For Enquiries, additional information Toronto, Canada and details, please contact: “Picturing Modernity: Early Cinema in Qajar Era Iran” http://www.st- andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/anthropology/nafa/qajar/con Dr Pedram Khosronejad ([email protected]) Mehrnaz Soleimani, Elmi Karbordi Higher Education ference Department of Social Anthropology Institute, Tehran, Iran 71 North Street “A Research on Photos of Iran’s Constitution Era” For booking your place and University of St. Andrews registration, please visit: St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland KY16 9AL Mohammad Reza Tahmasb-pour, Independent Tel: +44 (1334) 461968 Researcher, Iran http://www.st- Fax: +44 (1334) 462985 “Eighty Three Years of Qajar Photography” andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/anthropology/nafa/registratio Email: [email protected] n Web: http://www.st- andrews.ac.uk/anthropology/files/staff/142/CV.pdf
Athens Ethnographic Film Festival - Call For Films 2011
Dear friends, / with the future of ethnographic film and audio-visual anthropology. The ‘Ethnographic Film Festival of Athens’ continues the exploration to the anthropological world through The festival addresses a wide audience, and it is an event the image and as last year, in our 2nd edition we are where ethnographic films directed by anthropologists, looking for films made from filmmakers with or by professional filmmakers or by students, are seen anthropological(or related) background including together in a combined programme. students' works either as dissertations or as assignments along with films made by professional filmmakers or Two copies of the films should be submitted in DVD film students who had a collaboration with format, containing English sub-titles and they should be anthropologists or/and social scientists. accompanied by a submission form (sent only via e- mail) in this e-mail address. This ethnographic festival doesn't have a competitive section but through its 3 main sections (Student's The form can be found here as attachment or download Films, Panorama and Tributes) is aiming to look at the it from: http://ethnofest.wordpress.com contemporary tendencies of visual anthropology but also at the roots of today's directions. Additionally, http://ethnofest.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/call-for- during the festival there will be open discussions and film-2011/ presentations where we hope to engage in a dialogue on NAFA Network vol. 18.2 (June 2011): News and Announcements 10
The deadline for films submission is the 15th of July Questions and prior notice for submissions should be Konstantinos Aivaliotis 2011. directed to: [email protected] Athens Ethnographic Film Festival Ph: +30 210 6544917 The address - for the films to be sent - is: Thank you very much Cell: +30 6945 104788 E-mail: [email protected] Athens Ethnographic Film Festival Blog: www.ethnofest.wordpress.com P.O.BOX 66009 155 01 Holargos Athens, Greece
Days of Ethnographic Cinema — 2011: Call for entries
24–30 September 2011 the Russian Institute for comprise the Anthropology of LaborScreening a Film Submission Form filled out in Russian and/or Cultural Research in co-operation with the Likhachev Programme (Film Festival), special programme English. Russian Research Institute of the Cultural and Natural (screenings, international colloquium and photo Heritage, the Gerasimov All-Russian State University of exhibition) devoted to the history and present condition The deadline for submission of registration forms and Cinematography, and the National Association of of visual studies in Italy, and public lecture by Michael films is 25 July 2011. Audiovisual Archives will hold the Days of Herzfeld, professor of the Harvard University. Ethnographic Cinema. Filmmakers are kindly asked to submit a DVD- copy of For film submission form and more information, see the film with the English subtitles, a transcript of Web: http://www.ricur.ru/events.php The event is organized under the aegis of the Year of soundtrack in Russian and / or English (Word file), and Russia in Italy and the Year of Italy in Russia and will
Regard Bleu: Festival for ethnographic student film and media: Call for entries
We are proud to announce this years 7th edition of the Submission deadline is: Friday, June 17th, 2011. public meet to view interesting and inspiring works and festival 'Regard Bleu', September 30 – October 2, 2011, For online submission and information, please go to discuss the current trends in this effervescent field. The held again at the beautiful location at the Web: http://www.regardbleu.ch/ locality and the festival cafeteria provide a relaxed and Völkerkundemuseum, in the heart of the city in the friendly atmosphere. quiet surroundings of the old Botanical Gardens of the 'Regard Bleu' welcomes a wide variety of films and University of Zürich. As its name suggests 'Regard Bleu' other audio-visual media and has been able to unite We are looking forward to getting to know you and is a festival dedicated to fresh and aspiring audio-visual work prepared at Universities and Art and Film Schools your projects! projects concerning man, culture and society, not from Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, Great Britain, limited by any academic discourse or thematic India, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, the U.S. Over the Contact: restrictions. last couple of editions the festival has grown to be a Email: [email protected] We invite student producers of audio-visual media scintillating but still cosy event, where ambitious from all over the world to submit their projects. students, open minded professionals and the interested NAFA Network vol. 18.2 (June 2011): News and Announcements 11
Call for entries: VERZIO HR Doc Film Fest, November 2011
CALL FOR ENTRIES! CATEGORIES: Human rights related documentary MORE INFO: films including shorts E-mail: [email protected] VERZIO 8 HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY Web: www.verzio.org FILM FESTIVAL Send your film to:
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY Verzio Documentary Film Festival/OSA Attn.: Aniko Kovecsi FESTIVAL DATES: November 8-12, 2011 1051 Budapest SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 31, 2011 Arany Janos u. 32. Hungary
SVA panel @AAA 2011 “Signs in the City”
Seeking papers for a panel to be submitted for AAA culture such as commercial/store-front art, signage, Buckley ([email protected]) and Joseph Hellweg Montreal 2011: “Signs in the City” posters, bill-boards, publicity and advertizing materials, ([email protected]) stickers, graffiti. Geographical region is open. This panel seeks papers that examine the visuality/aesthetics of urban settings and market places. If interested to contributing a paper to this panel, please We would welcome contributions on material/visual contact Liam
12th RAI FESTIVAL 2011: online program available
Dear Colleagues and Friends, OVER 80 NEW FILMS - shortlisted for various prizes VARIOUS WORKSHOPS, PANELS AND SPECIAL and special screenings SCREENIGS ON MIGRATION; ETHIC & WORK We would like to invite you for the 12th RAI RAI & BASIL WRIGHT, INTANGIBLE CULTURE OF ANTHROPOLOGISTS; COMMUNITY MEDIA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF (Music – Dance – Performance), MATERIAL Related events: OPEN CITY FESTIVAL, MyStreet ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM 2011, held from Thursday CULTURE & ARCHAEOLOGY, STUDENT Film 23rd June to Sunday 26th June 2011 at UCL, Roberts Prize screening strands, including Q&A with the The programme is now available online - including film building, in the heart of Bloomsbury, Central London. filmmakers descriptions! Have a look around and start planning Film Archive Workshop at the British Library: your days at the RAI Film Festival! WHOSE FILM IS IT ANYWAY? NAFA Network vol. 18.2 (June 2011): News and Announcements 12 http://raifilmfest.org.uk/film/festival/2011/home/progr With very best wishes [email protected] amme http://www.therai.org.uk Susanne Hammacher phone: +44-(0)20-7387 0455 For information on how to join the RAI go to: Film Officer | Festival Manager fax number: +44-(0)20-7388 8817 http://www.therai.org.uk/joining/types-of-affiliation/ The Royal Anthropological Institute The RAI Film Festival team is looking forward to 50 Fitzroy Street meeting you in London in June ! London W1T 5BT UK
Call for papers - Networked Revolts
Online journal Re-public invites contributions for its The primary aim is to address questions on the forms, E-mail: [email protected] upcoming special issue titled “Networked revolts”. The the organisational structures of the revolts and new continuing uprisings spreading across North Africa and political possibilities that they have opened up though Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2011 the Middle East have been inherently associated with the prism of the digital networks that the revolts the increasing entanglement of social media, or digital produced, or challenged, or transformed, or hacked. More information at http://www.re- networks in general, with everyday life. The multiple public.gr/en/?p=4193 uses of technologies –cell phones, Facebook, twitter, the Submissions may address some of the following themes Internet– by local participants and by global supporters in relation to the revolts: Dr. Pedram Khosronejad and observers and the counter-measures of blocking Department of Social Anthropology access and shutting down communication channels by • production of digital networks 71 North Street the toppled or still surviving governments have gained • radical uses of corporate social media (facebook, University of St. Andrews global attention and have already ignited a series of twitter) St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland KY16 9AL related debates. Are the social media causes or Tel: +44 (1334) 461968 • bypassing government control of digital networks symptoms of the Arab revolts? How can we determine Fax: +44 (1334) 462985 their degree of influence in the revolts? • horizontal forms of digital network organisation Email: [email protected]
The special issue will attempt to move beyond these Essays should be approximately 1,500 – 1,800 words. debates and approach the Arab revolts by making no ontological distinction between the digital and the real. Please send your contributions in electronic format to:
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New Programmes and courses in Portugal ISCTE/IUL (University Institute Lisbon)
Post-Graduation Programme in: Length: 1 year throughout the history of visual anthropology with the Deadline for registration: September 6th, 2011 latest imaging technologies the students will learn to Digital Visual Culture Beginning date: end of September 2011 produce new critical and creative pieces of ethnographic image-work. The aim of the programme is to provide a critical Summer Course in: introduction to key notions, debates and practices in Length: 4 weeks the area of visual anthropology with particular attention Interactive Ethnographic Documentary Deadline for registration: June 15th, 2011 to digital technologies. How do new imaging Filmmaking Beginning date: June 30th, 2011 technologies contribute in renewing our approaches to images and visual culture? Approaching visual culture In the latest years new digital technologies have made Both these programmes are coordinated jointly by the and digital technologies as perspectives and tools for possible the birth of new forms of viewing, making and Department of Anthropology of the School of Social re(thinking) anthropological knowledge at large the sharing images. In the field of documentary filmmaking Sciences ISCTE/IUL and the Centre for Research in programme aims at questioning also what happens if this has had its major and most interesting expression in Anthropology (CRIA). Convenor: Paolo Favero. we, instead of ‘writing’ and ‘reading’ culture, start the emerging production of non-linear and participative ‘seeing’, ‘showing’, ‘sounding’ and ‘feeling’ it. Besides projects, i.e. of visual products that rely on the one For more info: www.cria.org.pt http://pcvd.da.iscte.pt/ offering a central theoretical component a significant hand upon the growing availability of cheap http://www.iscte- part of the course will in fact be devoted to practical technologies for making and editing images and on the iul.pt/cursos/pos_graduacoes/12108/apresentacao.aspx work with instruments of visual communication. This other on the connected birth of a new spectator able to will be made possible by the access to the newly built construct her own path in the exploration of a Image Lab which is equipped with technologies for documentary film hence becoming a proper author. Contacts: producing and editing images and sound. This practical Based upon an integration of practice and theory this [email protected] / component offers the opportunity to explore the new course brings in touch the world of interactive [email protected] paths at our disposal f or communicating documentary with that of ethnographic image-making. anthropological knowledge. Merging the knowledge that has been accumulated
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Spanish Ethnographic Documentary Film Festival: The Espiello Prize 2011
ESPIELLO: THE ONLY ETHNOGRAPHIC are also proud of the collaboration established with Sahara singer that has strengthened her culture in the DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL IN world top authorities in Visual Anthropology (Dr. Paul hardest conditions: living in a refugee's camp. Mariem SPAIN CLOSES THE NINTH EDITION Henley from Manchester University, Dr. Bernt sung in Boltaña and received her prize from the Culture WITH A FEMINIST POINT OF VIEW Schnettler from Bayreuth University or Dr. José and Education authority in the government of Aragon: Carmelo Lisón from Universidad Complutense of Mª Victoria Broto. Mariem Hassan has ever sung to The Espiello Prize this year goes to a woman who Madrid who have presided last editions juries) and with freedom her people and she received the prize with the dedicated the award to the brave women who fight for one of the most relevant broadcasters in our country: cry: "Sahara libre (Freedom for Sahara)". human rights in her country, Iran. Sudabeh Morzai has Eugenio Monesma. filmed a deep, difficult and sometimes funny ABOUT IN THE BAZAAR OF SEXES documentary on temporary marriages: "In The Bazaar For many years anthropologists came to Sobrarbe´s A lonesome middle-aged bachelor, a divorced single Of Sexes". The Special Prize of the festival has been villages, set in beautiful and isolated mountains, to mother, and a jovial young mullah (a priest) are the given to Sahara, a feminist and pro independency study Pyrenean culture. They wrote, draw, took protagonists of this intimate account of gender relations activist: Mariem Hassan, and many awards were to pictures and filmed us. Now we are aware that being in Iran. Their stories revolve around the institution of gender orientated topics (the Best Research was for able to tell our own history is important and that being temporary marriage, also called lust-marriage, a Shia Tommy Mendel for "Bunong's birth practices" and the able to listen to others, too. Espiello (that is mirror in practice that allows a man and a woman to legally marry one of the Young Prizes for a documentary on women Aragonese) has become a place for reflection and for a fixed period of time ranging from one hour to 99 on the border of Galicia and Portugal, by Diana communication in these Pyrenees that we understand years. Religiously sanctified prostitution or a loophole Gonçalves). not as a border but as a cultural causeway. for couples to have a relationship within the rigid Islamic laws? Religious dogma meets macho Espiello has celebrated its ninth edition, being the only HONOUR PRIZE 2011: sentimentality meets female realities. A relentlessly ethnographic film festival in Spain. Since its first edition MARIEM HASSAN honest, eye-opening, and sometimes funny account of Espiello is a great window to South American Besides the contest awards, Espiello gives an Honour Islamic sexual and gender politics. documentaries but in Espiello competition have been Prize to artists with an outstanding career related with projected films from all over the world. the defence of cultures: well known photographers, Espiello takes place every spring and a big part of ethnographers, filmmakers... have been distinguished Sobrarbe´s small community gets involved to make this with a special mirror sculpture. This year this Honour festival a very special event for all the participants. We Prize is for Mariem Hassan, the voice of the desert, a
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Review of the first Festival of Ethnographic and Anthropological Film, Sofia, Bulgaria 2010 the Balkans. Results of these expeditions are the Zika is on the focus of many of Rouch’s films where he By Atanaska Stanchev movies: performs the traditions and culture of the people from the valley of the river Niger. During the period 1967 – “The Sons of Haji Omar” (1978), Chronicle of Sereniki 1974 Jean Rouch and Germaine Dieterlen shot a From 25th to 28th November in Sofia took place the in Siberia (1989), “Pomak portraits” (1997-98), ceremony Sigui of the Dogon in several movies. This first edition of the Festival of Ethnographic and “Muslim labyrinths” (2003), “A Month In The Life of ceremony takes place once in a period of 60 years and Anthropological Film (FEAF) with accent to the films Ephtim D.” (2003), the last three of them shot in coincides with a definite moment from the orbit of of prof. Asen Balikci and Jean Rouch. Bulgaria. Part of the movies will be shown in the Sirius. programme of FEAF. The idea is not a new one. In the year of 1998 the Programme of FEAF except presented eight films of visual anthropologist prof. Asen Balikci organizes Other accent in the festival was the movies of Jean prof. Balikci and six of Jean Rouch showed work of Festival of the Ethnographic Movie at the Dom na Rouch (1917 – 2004 г.) He was working more than 60 several Bulgarian museums in shooting of ethnographic kinoto (Home of cinema), with the French years in the field of visual anthropology and most of films. Viewers can see part of the masquerade games in anthropologist and a movie filmmaker Jean Rouch (one them in Africa. Jean Rouch’s films are qualified as ethno Europe in the movie “Carnival – a king of Europe”, the of the founders of cinéma Vérité) as a special guest. fiction – at the border of Nowadays Association for Cultural Initiatives continues the cinema, influenced by this tradition by organizing FEAF- Sofia 2010. the encounter of the surrealism of the 20 years of Special guest to the Festival was professor Balikci. He 20th century and the pure has been living in Istanbul, Sofia, Genève, Ottawa and documentary movie. In the New York, which towns is connected to different year of 1941 Rouch works moments of his personal and professional life. At the as a hydro engineer in the end of the 50 years of last century Balikci begins his African colonies. researches among Eskimo people and this work lasts Meanwhile, in one of the more than a decade. construction depot, which he supervised ten people Product of his researches is not only numerous science was stricken by lightning publications, but also the documentary series of movies and died. The grandmother “Netsilik Eskimo Series” (1967). They are used in the of Damur Zika, a friend of American educational system under the title “Man: A Rouch, from the Sorko Course of Study” (MACOS) and were shown in tribe, performs a ritual for different festivals for the ethnographic films all over the purifying the dead. That is world. The ethnographic work of Balikci leads him to the moment when Jean the desert in Ethiopia, in north-east Afghanistan, to the Rouch decides to make Eskimo people Sireniki in East Siberia, to the ex- ethnographic movies. kingdom Sikim in the Himalayas and naturally - to NAFA Network vol. 18.2 (June 2011): News and Announcements 16 secret rituals of the nestinari in Strandzha mountain and FEAF Sofia 2010 was organized by Association for The entrance was free for all festive days. The next Greek village Agia Eleni, the contemporary life of the Cultural Initiatives and the Ethnologic Academic edition coming up this fall and will put accent on the Egyptian people through the eyes of one ethnologist. Association, with the partnership of the French Institute Balkan reality and the Balkans in transition. Ruse museum participated with the last representatives in Sofia and the Ethnology Department in The of the blacksmiths and preserved tradition among the University of Sofia. Media partner was the magazine gypsy community in Ruse area. The colleagues from the “Obekti”. Architectural – Ethnographic Complex Gabrovo represented a ritual of traditional Bulgarian harvesting, etc.
The four days of the FEAF included 25 productions, and with the exception of the French movies, all of them were presented by their authors.
The Festival for Ethnographic and Anthropological film took place in the Conference hall at the University of Sofia “St.Kliment Ohridski”.
The main part of the public was the academy and students auditoria, with specialized interests in the area of the visual anthropology. Speaking of the educational character of the event there were many parents with children. Over 400 people attended to FEAF, like the biggest interest was focused of prof. Balikci movies.
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Visual Anthropology Editorial Board NEW MANAGER OF VISCOM Conference Notice: Figures and Fictions: The Ethics and Poetics of Dear Colleagues, [email protected] Photographic Depictions of People The editors of Visual Anthropology, in collaboration with the CVA, have revamped the Editorial Board of I am delighted to announce that Naomi Schooler will The centre for the Study of Contemporary Art, UCL, the journal to involve several younger, active persons, shortly become the manager of VISCOM. For those of in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum is and to reflect the continuing importance of European you who do not know here here is a quick intro organising an international conference to coincide with scholars in the subdiscipline. the exhibition /*/Figures and Fictions: Contemporary Dr. Naomi Schiller is an assistant professor of South African Photography/*/ curated By Tamar Garb Sylvia Caiuby Novaes Brazil Anthropology at Temple University. Her research and (UCL) and Martin Barnes (V & A), open from 12 April Chan Kwok-bun Hong Kong teaching interests include the anthropology of media, - 17 July 2011 at the V & A.. Peter Ian Crawford Denmark visual anthropology, the state, social movements, and
Joyce Hammond USA Latin America. She is currently completing a Conference to be held on 24 and 25 June 2011 at the V Paul Henley United Kingdom manuscript & A. Luc de Heusch Belgium on the production of community television in Caracas,
Rolf Husmann Germany Venezuela. In collaboration with community media Speakers include Achille Mbembe, Michael Godby, Jo Jayasinhji Jhala India makers in Caracas, Dr. Schiller has produced several Ractliffe, Joy Gregory, Zwelethu Methethwa, Roelef David MacDougall Australia short films about community television production in van Wyk, Sarah Nuttall, Ashraf Jamal, Darren Rosella Ragazzi Norway Venezuela, which were broadcast on local and national Newbury, Elizabeth Edwards, Kerryn Greenberg, Sean Keyan Tomaselli South Africa Venezuelan television stations. O' Toole, Saul Dubow, Annie Coombes, Liese van der Jean-François Werner France Watt, Carli Coetzee, AmyHalliday and Christopher There should be no disruption to the listserv. Should Pinney. Editorial policy at the journal remains unchanged, and you wish to contact Naomi her email address is A full programme will be posted on the History of Art contributions from scholars all over the world are [email protected]. Wish her luck. Department's website shortly: always welcome. During the coming months the journal http://www.ucl.ac.uk/art-history/events/portrayal will be publishing two special themed issues: Jay Ruby
"Ethnocinema in Five Nations" and "Unburied For information about the show and related events Memories: Visual Representations of Martyrs and please see their Memorial Objects" (guest editor, Pedram www.vam.ac.uk/figuresandfictions Khosronejad).
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Booking through: Web: http://www.gold.ac.uk/cucr/events/ VA - announcement of special issue, www.vam.ac.uk/figuresandfictions Hybrid Hong Kong Organized by Caroline Knowles and Kirsten Campbell Tamar Garb Centre for Urban and Community Research and Unit Durning Lawrence Professor in the History of Art for Global Justice, Goldsmiths, University of London. Visual Anthropology, vol.24, nos.1-2: Hybrid Hong University College London, Gower Street Kong London, WC1E 6BT Direct line: +44 (0) 203108 4014 Visual Anthropology has done something quite new UCL internal 54014 early in 2011: bringing out a Special Issue (vol. 24, nos. Visual Studies - Special Issue Now 1-2) that is a rounded co-operative ethnography of the hybrid social situation that is Contemporary Hong Available Kong. This Issue consists of 13 papers by 16 authors, nearly all of them dealing squarely with the visual Cities in Conflict - conference Visual Studies, vol. 26, n. 1, March 2011 aspects of this complex hybrid situation (one that we The latest issue of Visual Studies is a special issue - could also find in such cities as Singapore or New Locative Media and the Digital Visualisation of Space, York). Painting, music videos, iconography, film, The Centre for Urban and Community Research and Place and Information. This issue is now available television, museums, fashion design, theatre, dance Unit for Global Justice invite you to: online. music, cuisine, medicine, gay identity, and Muslim Cities in Conflict youth are all dealt with, and prefaced by a highly Held at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA),London Find our more at www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rvst theoretical paper by the Guest Editor, Chan Kwok-bun, 20 June 2011 09.00am-18.00pm Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/routledge_art and his son Chan Nin. Chan Kwok-bun is Chair Join us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/routledgeart Professor of Sociology at Hong Kong Baptist Cities have increasingly become targets, terrains, and University, and also Founder and Director of the Chan territories of conflict as well as places of consociation, SUMMARY Institute of Social Studies. rebuilding and making new urban lives. Sociologists, urban theorists, photographers, documentary makers, Sarah Pink Sensory: digital photogrpahy: re-thinking Visual Anthropology is published by Routledge. Very architects, architectural theorists, urban planners and moving and the image favourable subscription rates are available to readers lawyers explore: who are already members of the SVA or the IVSA. For Architectures of Conflict, Cities at War, Urban Francesco Lapenta Geomedia: on location-based media, subscription details, please see Violence and Reconstructing Urbanity together with an the changing status of collective image production and [email protected] or, if you are in the United exhibition and discussion of images of urban conflict. the emergence of social navigation system States, [email protected] .
Speakers include: William Uricchio: The algorithmic turn: photosinth, Paul Hockings Mark Cousins augmented reality and the changing implications of the Editor-in-Chief Costas Douzinas image [email protected] Michael Keith Lev Manovich: What is visualization? AbdouMaliq Simone Martin Coward Fabian Holt: Is music becoming visual? Online video Eyal Weizman content in the music industry
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Beyond the Iranian Frame: From Elhum Shakerifar, Independent Visual Anthropologist, Robert Gardner: “The Impulse to Visual Representation to Socio- UK Preserve: Reflections of a Filmmaker” Visual Representations of Iranian Transgenders political Drama Pedram Khosronejad, University of St Andrew, UK Studio7Arts is currently offering a special promotion of Iranian Studies, Journal of the International Society for Some Observations on Visual Representations of 2009 Robert Gardner's “The Impulse to Preserve: Reflections Iranian Studies, Routledge Iranian Presidential Elections’ Crisis of a Filmmaker”.
Editor: Homa Katouzian Visual anthropology and ethnographical film studies are Hailed for classic ethnographic films such as Dead gaining an increasingly critical place in the study of Birds, Rivers of Sand, and Forest of Bliss, Guest Editor: contemporary Iran, and of its diverse people, traditions Robert Gardner received the Society for Visual Dr Pedram Khosronejad, Department of Social and ways of life. At a time when much research in Iran Anthropology's Lifetime Achievement Award in Anthropology, University of St Andrews still proves to be a close to impossible task, visual December 2005. Despite Primo Levi's dire warning materials are often the only resources available to those about the "inadequacy of documentary evidence," Volume Number: 44, 3, May 2011 seeking to understand Iranian current affairs and Gardner's work shows that capturing the light reflected sociality. This collection brings together one of the first from actuality has its revelatory moments. Michaël Abecassis, University of Oxford, UK interdisciplinary sets of research conducted by a new Including nearly 500 photographs, The Impulse to Iranian War Cinema: Between Reality and Fiction generation of visual anthropologists, visual researchers Preserve reflects a lifetime spent probing human and film specialists, studying Iran through documentary experience in the world's most remote corners. Mehrzad Karimabadi , San Jose State University, USA films and visual resources. Part of its originality stems Manifesto of Martyrdom: Similarities and Differences from the freshness of some of the subject matter Robert Gardner is an anthropological filmmaker who between Avini’s Ravaayat-e Fath, i.e. Chronicles of presented. The contributors of this collection dialogue has for four decades balanced on an tightrope between Victory and more Traditional Manifestoes not just with more familiar, albeit complex topics, such the sensibility of the artist and the discipline of the as pastoral nomadism, the Iran-Iraq war, and Iranians ethnographer. This is his memoir of that extraordinary Shahab Esfandiary, University of Nottingham, UK in the diaspora, but are also interested in exploring new feat.Turning the pages, we come across some of the Mehrjui’s Social Comedy and the Representation of the and emerging phenomena in Iran such as transg! iconic images in ethnographic film as well as apercus of Nation in the Age of Globalization enderism, globalization, and the multiple consequences light and line that hold their own of the 2009 presidential crisis. This is a timely and artistic truth. Arthur Kleinman, author of The Illness Christine Horz, PhD candidate, University of Erfurt, relevant set of essays that aims to contribute towards a Narratives: Suffering, Healing & the Human Germany more complete appreciation of a society currently Condition. Challenged Media Participation of Diasporas: Iranian undergoing significant and impacting changes. productions in Public Access TV Channels in Germany Please visit our official website_ http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00210862.asp http://www.studio7arts.org/index.php?/projects/the- Amy Malek, PhD Candidate, University of California, impulse-to-preserve/ Los Angeles (UCLA), USA for more information. “If you’re going to educate ‘em, you’ve got to entertain ‘em too”: An Examination of Representation and Established by Robert Gardner, who also held the Ethnography in Grass and People of the Wind positions of Chairman of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, NAFA Network vol. 18.2 (June 2011): Notice Board 20
Studio7Arts is an organization that produces, promotes Lost Bulgaria anthropological film from the 1970-80s and most of the and supports work that interprets the world through the works made by non-canonical filmmakers, or single creation of nonfiction media. films made by an anthropologist in that verdant period "Lost Bulgaria" is the biggest private photo archive in have now faded beyond saving. Bulgaria designed by Mr. Peyo Kolev (Sofia). http://www.lostbulgaria.com/ http://www.lostbulgaria.com/ John Bishop
New Journal Announcement: SENSATE 3639 rare with high quality photographs have already been presented there. Sensate is an online, media-based journal for the This archive presents pictures of Bulgarian people and Bulgarian social life during a long period of time. creation, presentation, and critique of innovative The Stolen Scream projects in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Our aim is to build on the current groundswell of pioneering "Lost Bulgaria" promotes the use of images for the activities in the digital humanities, scholarly publishing, description, analysis, communication and interpretation I think watching this short clip is important for those and innovative media practice to integrate new modes of human and community behavior. By who work on circulation of Image on the web. of scholarship into the cognitive life of the academy and making use of these freely accessible visual documents beyond. 'small-scale' research and other types of studies in the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5lEMIf7_FM&fea Sensate aims to foster new forms of scholarship that field of local/family/community history could be carried ture=feedu expand the traditional paradigm of academic discourse out. and open new possibilities for scholarship and artistic “…Today, more than a year after the Iranian creation. Fundamental to this expansion is reimagining presidential election, it is not only images themselves, what constitutes a 'piece' of scholarship or art. Work but also exciting curatorial and publicity initiatives such featured in Sensate might take the form of audiovisual as exhibitions, public installations and the World Wide ethnographic research, multimedia mash-ups, Folkstreams Web, media activism of these traumatic and political experiments in media archaeology, participatory media events which are now at the forefront of efforts to projects, or digitized collections of archival media, memorialize, interrogate and, at times, create the artifacts, maps, or objects. By highlighting the processes Folkstreams was set up by Tom Davenport, a filmmaker individual and collective experiences of these events…” of media and knowledge production, we hope to foster who worked extensively with folklorist and P. Khosronejad, 2011 (May) , Iranian Studies, Vol.44 emergent and generative scholarship. ethnomusicologist Dan Paterson and others. He also (3). We hope that you will find many ways to engage with has a wonderful YouTube video on artificial not only the content, but the ever-expanding network insemination of cows. You can Wiki him for more Cheers, of Sensate collaborators. We welcome any feedback, details. He set up Folkstreams as a way to archive and Dr. Pedram Khosronejad provocations, and invitations for collaboration. make available the rich lode of American folklore on Department of Social Anthropology film from the the last half of the century just past. All 71 North Street Please contact us at: [email protected]. the films that stream are also archived in Digibeta University of St. Andrews Sensate is free and open-access. format, and those still in distribution are tagged with the distributor information. It was an heroic effort to Please visit the site at: http://www.sensatejournal.com/ preserve a rapidly decaying body of film/video work. Unfortunately nothing similar has been done for NAFA Network vol. 18.2 (June 2011): Notice Board 21
Using Videos in the Classroom: apply Foucault’s theories of surveillance and discipline, are neither actors nor public figures,” Mead wrote; Pedagogy and The Sociological and an episode from the popular television show Wife rather, they were the people they portrayed on Swap works well to illustrate Bourdieu’s notion of television, “members of a real family.” Producers Cinema cultural capital.” compressed seven months of tedium and turmoil (including the corrosion of Bill and Pat’s marriage) into An excerpt from the American Sociological Here is their website: twelve one-hour episodes, which constituted, in Mead’s Association's Teaching and Learning Section Newsletter http://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/ view, “a new kind of art form”—an innovation “as 39, 3, Spring 2011. "Using Videos in the Classroom: significant as the invention of drama or the novel.” Pedagogy and The Sociological Cinema" by Lester Jerome Krase, Ph.D. Andrist, Valerie Chepp, and Paul Dean, University of Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor Read more Maryland Brooklyn College "http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/0 "The Internet, and especially video-streaming sites such The City University of New York 5/09/110509crat_atlarge_sanneh#ixzz1LO0jeSVX" as YouTube, has greatly expanded our access to videos for use in our classrooms. However, these digital More on "An American Family" and Margaret Mead warehouses and their seemingly unlimited content from More on Margaret Mead's influence on documentary: so many different sources often make it difficult for instructors to efficiently find useful clips for the An American Family – notes The producer/director of An American Family, Craig classroom. We can easily lose hours browsing videos Gilbert, directed a feature documentary about Mead in that have marginal relevance or poor quality, or we can 1968, Margaret Mead's New Guinea Journal. In the simply get distracted by the latest batch of viral videos. An American Family online (excerpts) course of this project, Gilbert and Mead became close So, back in early fall of 2009, we began collecting and WNET has put excerpts from all 12 original episodes of friends. Mead's anthropological research clearly cataloguing video clips we found useful in our own An American Family online, in preparation for influenced Gilbert's idea to make a documentary about classrooms. In the hopes of helping out other sociology marathon re-broadcasts of the entire. a year in the life of one American family. Mead was a instructors, we built a website, The Sociological See: http://www.thirteen.org/american-family/ steadfast advocate of Gilbert's idea. Cinema, around these videos and added space for a blog, class assignments, and other video-related content. Jeff The cinematographer Gilbert hired to shoot Margaret Along the way, we have drawn explicitly upon the Mead's New Guinea Journal was Richard Leiterman, scholarship of teaching and learning to better develop An American Family on DVD the talented cameraman who filmed Frederick our pedagogy, which is the topic of this short article. Web: http://www.ioffer.com/i/an-american-family-dvd- Wiseman's High School (1968) and Allan King's A While we have personally found videos very effective for 1973-pbs-documentary-series-197108430 Married Couple (1969), the latter a precursor in subject engaging students in unique ways, a growing body of matter and style to An American Family. evidence supports this conclusion and even expands on On January 6, 1973, the anthropologist Margaret Mead it. According to sociologist Michael Miller (2009), published a startling little essay in TV Guide. Her Susan Raymond, the young woman who recorded “[videos’] most critical function in terms of cognitive contribution, which wasn’t mentioned on the cover, sound on An American Family, was inspired by learning appears to lie in their capacity to serve as appeared in the back of the magazine, after the listings, Margaret Mead's example to major in sociology as an representational applications for key course ideas.” For tucked between an advertisement for Virginia Slims and undergraduate at DePaul University. example, an excerpt from a CNN broadcast on the a profile of Shelley Winters. Mead’s subject was a new propagation of closed circuit television cameras Public Broadcasting System series called “An American JR (CCTVs) is very useful for encouraging students to Family,” about the Louds, a middle-class California household. “Bill and Pat Loud and their five children NAFA Network vol. 18.2 (June 2011): Notice Board 22
Research Grant: the photographs of Sevruguin’s role and career to gain an understanding of · Consulting and liaising with F|S archives staff and Antoin Sevruguin’s photographs of the photographer’s importance to the history of Iran. curatorial staff to develop the project in accordance to established cataloguing standards and scholarly Iran · Review previous cataloging information for requirements. approximately 850 images and glass plate negatives and The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler verify and correct captions. The work is anticipated for a nine-month full-time Gallery (F|S), the Smithsonian’s national museums of schedule; the timeline is flexible and the starting date Asian art, have received a generous grant from the Types of information to verify may include subject, negotiable. PARSA Foundation to complete a catalogue and official title, date ranges, print format, and negative inventory of the photographs of Antoin Sevruguin’s numbers. Research will require extensive use of Applicants should be able to fluent in Persian, have a photographs of Iran, ranging in date from the 1880s to published authoritative sources in Persian and European minimum of an M.A in Persian history; an A.B.D is the 1930s. This project entails researching some 850 languages, such as English, French, Italian, or German preferred. Familiarity with visual materials, especially photographic prints and glass plate negatives: reviewing to confirm data. Research will also entail occasional photographs, is desirable. and revising the current data; adding historical, cultural, consultation with other authorities on Iranian history, and artistic information for each image, which photographic history, archaeology, etc. Requirements: eventually will be made available on the Smithsonian 1) Curriculum vitae Institution Research Information System (SIRIS). · Additional research relating to specific images to 2) Writing sample of maximum 1000 words identify personalities, events, locales, etc. and 3) Two references The project will include the following: developing a basic bibliography. Preliminary work will be conducted using available Please send information to: Maya Foo at [email protected] · Researching the historical and artistic background of sources to identify identical prints in different parts of and title it Persian nineteenth-century photography and Antoin the collection or in other institutions. “Sevruguin Project” by Friday, June 17, 2011.
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Events marked with bold are those still open for entries. Web: http://www.docpoint.info/en 15 April 2011 – Deadline for paper abstracts and film submissions June 9-26, 2011 30 May 2011 – Deadline for final drafts of papers May 31-June 15, 2011 ENCOUNTERS South African International (word limit 5000-6000 words) Freiburg Film Festival Documentary Festival, Cape Town and Johannesburg For more information, contact Deadline for entries: 15th March, 2011 Web: www.encounters.co.za/ Li Wei, E-mail: [email protected] Correspondence Person, Conference on Visual Web: www.freiburger-filmforum.de June 12-22, 2011 Anthropology: Film, Education, and Pedagogy Film-making for Fieldwork: practical short courses at Phone: +86 871 5031607 June 7-12, 2011 the Granada Centre - Email: [email protected] beeld voor beeld Documentary Film Festival Editing: 12 - 22 June 2011(Introductory: 22 May - 3 Tropentheater Amsterdam / Museum Volkenkunde June). June 15-26, 2011 Leiden For further details see: The 65th Edinburgh international film festival (eiff), Festival Director, Eddy Appels Web: Edinburgh, Scotland Deadline for film entries: February 25 http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/ The 2011 submission process will open on November 1 [email protected]; socialanthropology/vi Web: http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk Tel. + 31 20 568 8520 sualanthropology/newfieldworkfilm/ Web: www.beeldvoorbeeld.nl June 16 – 19, 2011 June 18-26, 2011 The Open City June 8-12, 2011 14th Festival of the Dhow Countries/ Zanzibar London Documentary Festival Sheffied International Documentary Festival (SIDF) International Film Festival 2011, Zanzibar More information: www.opencitylondon.com Deadline for submission: closed With the theme: A Season of Visions Contact: Web: http://www.ziff.or.tz/ June 18-24, 2011 Sheffield Doc/Fest Flaherty Film Seminar SONIC TRUTH, The Workstation June 20-21, 2011 Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 15 Paternoster Row CFP: 2011 Yunnan University Visual Anthropology Registration is closed Sheffield, S1 2BX, UK Conference, Kunming, China: 2nd Annual Conference Reduced Student registration Tel: +44 (0)114 276 5141 on Visual Anthropology: Film Education and Web: http://www.flahertyseminar.org/ Fax: +44 (0)114 272 1849 Pedagogy. E: [email protected] Presented by the Visual Anthropology Studio at the June 23-25, 2011 Web: http://sheffdocfest.com Center for the Research of the Ethnic Minorities of The 8th International Ethno Film Festival „Slavonian China’s Southwestern Borderlands, Yunnan University, Heart“, held in cooperation with Town of Djakovo, June 8-13, 2011 Kunming, Yunnan Province, China Croatia and the famous ethno festival „Djakovacki DocPoint NYC –Finnish Documentary Film Event Important Deadlines and Dates: Vezovi“. New York City NAFA Network vol. 18.2 (June 2011): Calendar 24
Except ethno films, the festival will have other activities iul.pt/cursos/pos_graduacoes/12108/apresentacao.as ph: +61864882853 such as: photo exhibitions, promotions, concerts and px Fax: +61864881062 many workshops. E-mail: [email protected] / CRICOS No. 00126G Deadline for entry: April 30, 2011 [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Contact: Web: http://www.anthropology.arts.uwa.edu.au Ruza Mikesic July 4-24, 2011 ETHNO FILM FESTIVAL DJAKOVO Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology July 6-8, 2011 FKK Djakovo Film Festival IVSA Conference: Visual Research as a Collaborative For Slavonian Heart Web: www.chaplin.ee/filmfestival/index.htm and Participatory Practice, University of British PP 80, 31 400 ĐAKOVO Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Croatia July 6-11, 2011 Deadline for Submissions: February 15, 2011 Tel: +385 91 518 30 78 Festival International de Documentaire de Marseille – Web: www.visualsociology.org/conference.html Web: http://rezovi.eu/ FIDMARSEILLE Contact : Tel : +33 (0) 495044490 August 2011 June 23-26, 2011 Email : [email protected] (Post-)graduate Workshop on Visual Anthropology The 12th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Web: www.fidmarseilles.org Ascona, Switzerland, Film, London, UK. Organised by the Centro Incontri Umani in Deadline for entries: 15th January, 2011 July 4-8, 2011 collaboration with University of Göttingen, University Contact: The Perth InterCongress of Tromsø, Centre d'Etudes des mondes Susanne Hammacher Combined AAS/IUAES/ASAANZ Intercongress at the Africains, and CNRS Paris I Film Officer | Festival Manager University of Western Australia in Perth Submission deadline: 15.1.2011 The Royal Anthropological Institute Further information: Metje Postma, University of Contact: Dr. Beate Engelbrecht, Email: 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT Leiden, E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] UK Tel +44-(0)20-7387 0455 July 5-8, 2011 August 12-17, 2011 Fax +44-(0)20-7388 8817 AAS/IUAES/ASAANZ CONFERENCE 2011 Globians Doc Fest Berlin 2011 E-mail: [email protected] KNOWLEDGE AND VALUE IN A GLOBALISING Globians world+culture Documentary Film Festival Web: http://www.therai.org.uk WORLD Berlin Disentangling Dichotomies, Querying Unities Facebook: www.facebook.com/globians June 30 (beginning date), 2011 THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA The direct submission link at Withoutabox.com for Summer Course in Interactive Ethnographic Deadline for panel proposals: October 22nd, 2010 GLOBIANS DOC FEST BERLIN 2011: Documentary Filmmaking, ISCTE/IUL (University Please send panel proposals to: https://www.withoutabox.com/login/3821 Institute Lisbon), Portugal [email protected] phone +49.331.279 76 62 Length: 4 weeks Contact: email [email protected] Deadline for registration: June 15th, 2011 Organizing Committee Beginning date: June 30th, 2011 IUAES/AAS/ASAANNZ Conference 2011 August 22-27, 2011 For more info: Discipline of Anthropology and Sociology Odense International Film Festival Web: www.cria.org.pt http://pcvd.da.iscte.pt/ The University of Western Australia M-255 Odense, Denmark http://www.iscte- 35 Stirling Hwy Web: filmfestival.dk/ Crawley, WA 6009 NAFA Network vol. 18.2 (June 2011): Calendar 25
August 29 – September 1, 2011 Deadline for submission (registration forms and October 6-13, 2011 The 31st International Nordic Anthropological Film films): July 25, 2011. Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 12. Association (NAFA) Film Festival and Symposium: For film submission form and more information Edition "People Over the Sea: Nordic and Scottish Web: http://www.ricur.ru/events.php Deadline for entries: 15th Dec 2010/ 10th April 2011 / Perspectives". 31st May 2011 Deadline for film entry: 4 April 2011 September 29-Oct 9, 2011 Web: http://www.yidff.jp/ Submission of abstracts for the conference part: 28 DOCSDF 2011, 6th International Documentary Film February 2011 Festival of Mexico City. October 6-8, 2011 More info on http://www.st- Deadline for submission: May 13, 2011 Busan International Film Festival, Korea. andrews.ac.uk/anthropology/nafa/nafa/conference/ Contact: Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de (former Pusan IFF) la Ciudad de Mexico Deadline for short films (duration less than 60 min) September 2011-Sep 2012 Republica de Cuba 43, 1er Piso. is June 30, and deadline for feature length films Post-Graduation Programme in Digital Visual Colonia Centro CP 06010 (duration more than 60 min) is July 31 Culture, Mexico DF, Mexico. Contact, submission form and further info on ISCTE/IUL (University Institute Lisbon), Portugal E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.biff.kr Length: 1 year Web: www.docsdf.com Deadline for registration: September 6th, 2011 October 7-11, 2011 Beginning date: end of September 2011 September 30-Oct 2, 2011 The 6th Taiwan International Ethnographic Film For more info: Regard Bleu: Festival for ethnographic student film Festival “Suffering and Rebirth”, Taipei, Taiwan Web: www.cria.org.pt http://pcvd.da.iscte.pt/ and media, University of Zürich Deadline for submission: 31 May, 2011 http://www.iscte- We invite student producers of audio-visual media Contact: iul.pt/cursos/pos_graduacoes/12108/apresentacao.as from all over the world to submit their projects. Taiwan Association of Visual Ethnography px Deadline for submission: June 17th, 2011. 2011 Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival E-mail: [email protected] / For online submission and information, please go to Room 2610, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, [email protected] Web: http://www.regardbleu.ch/ Nankang, Taipei 115, Taiwan Contact: Tel: +886 2 26523453 September 13-15, 2011 Email: [email protected] Fax:+886 2 26523457(to Room2610) Second International Visual Methods conference [email protected] The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK October 6-8, 2011 Website: www.tieff.sinica.edu.tw Mail: [email protected] Viscult 2011 Web: http://www.visualmethods.org/ Slavery - From oppression to resistance October 13-20, 2011 Joensuu, Finland 13th Mumbai international Film Festival (M.I.F.F), September 23-28, 2011 Deadline for film entry: June 1, 2011 Mumbai, India. Nordisk Panorama 22 edition Contact: Deadline for entries: August 1, 2011 Five Cities Film Festival Viscult Contact: Aarhus, Denmark The Regional Film Center of North Karelia E-mail: [email protected] | http://www.nordiskpanorama.com/ Länsikatu 15 [email protected] | FIN-80110 Joensuu, Finland www.mumbaifilmfest.com September 24-30, 2011 Mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.mumbaifilmfest.com/ Days of Ethnographic Cinema — 2011, Moskow Web: www.viscult.net NAFA Network vol. 18.2 (June 2011): Calendar 26
October 17-22, 2011 October 25-30, 2011 November 8-12, 2011 The 20th International Festival of Ethnological Film, The 15th International Documentary Festival Verzio 8. Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade. Jihlava, Budapest, Hungary Deadline for film submission: May 25, 2011. Czech Republic Deadline for submission: July 31, 2011 Contact: Deadline for entries: May 31/June 30, 2010 CATEGORIES: Human rights related documentary Sasa Sreckovic, Festival administrator Web: www.dokument-festival.cz films including shorts Tel + 381 11 2625-140 Contact: Fax + 381 11 3282-944 November 1-4, 2011 Verzio Documentary Film Festival/OSA E-mail: [email protected] Jerusalem Cinematheque and Israeli film Archive Attn.: Aniko Kovecsi / [email protected] Anthropological 1st Film Festival 1051 Budapest Web: www.etnografskimuzej.rs Contact: Arany Janos u. 32. Jerusalem Cinematheque - Israel Film Archive Hungary October 17-23, 2011 c\o Films and Anthropology E-mail: [email protected] DOK Leipzig P.O.B 8561 Web: www.verzio.org 54 International Leipzig Festival for Documentary Jerusalem 91083 and Animated Film Israel November 9-13, 2011 Final deadline for entries: July 10, 2011 Web: http://www.jer-cin.org.il/ Alter-Native 19 International Short Film Festival, Web: www.dok-leipzig.de Tirgu Mures – Romania. November 3-13, 2011 Deadline for entries: September 20, 2011 October 20-November 2, 2011 CPH:DOX 2011 Contact:U.D.T.M - MADISZ VIENNALE - Vienna International Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark 540015 Tîrgu Mureş, ROMANIA Austria Deadline for entries: 1st of August 2011 for films Str.Gheorghe Doja Nr.9/81 Deadline for synopsis of film: 31 July 2011 completed after April 2011 Tel: (+)40-265-267547 Contact: Web: www.cphdox.dk Fax: (+)40-265-268573 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Web: http:// www.viennale.at November 7-12, 2011 web: www.madisz.ro Jean Rouch International Film Festival November 10-13, 2011 October 24-30, 2011 30th Ethnographic Film Panorama 35th Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, New York, 30 Uppsala Kortfilmfestival Seeing the World Differently USA. Uppsala, Sweden Deadline: April 15th, 2011 Deadline for entries: June 1, 2011 Deadline for entries: June 30, 2011 Contact: Contact: Web: www.shortfilmfestival.com/ Festival International Jean Rouch Tel: 212 769 5305 / Fax: 212 769 5329 30ème Bilan du Film Ethnographique E-mail: [email protected] October 25-30, 2011 Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Web: www.amnh.org/programs/mead/ Astra Film Festival - the Sibiu International Festival for 36 rue Geoffroy Saint Hilaire - CP 22 Documentary Film 75005 Paris November 11-20, 2011 Sibiu, Romania Mail: [email protected] 31e Amiens International Film Festival, Amiens, Deadline: 1 May 2011 Web: http://www.comite-film-ethno.net France Web: http://www.astrafilm.ro/ Deadline for entries (for documentaries): July 15th, 2011 NAFA Network vol. 18.2 (June 2011): Calendar 27
Contact: Amiens International Film Festival, MCA, November 16-20, 2011 Deadline for entries: The guidelines and application Place Léon Gontier, F-800000 Amiens, France. AAA Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada form for entering a film in the Berlinale 2011 will be Tel: +33 3 22 71 35 70 / Fax: +33 3 22 92 53 04 More information: available online by mid-September 2011 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/index.cfm Web: http://www.berlinale.de/ Web: www.filmfestamiens.org December 8-12, 2011 February 21-26, 2012 November 12-19, 2011 Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival Punto de Vista – International Documentary film The 52nd Festival dei Popoli International 2011, Kathmandu, Nepal. Festival of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain Documentary Film Festival, Florence, Italy Films made after 1 January 2009 are eligible for Deadline for entries: September 30, 2011 Films must be submitted no later than June 20th entry. Web:http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/indexEN. 2011 for films produced before April 30th 2011; no Deadline for entries: July 30, 2011 asp later than August 1st 2011 for films either produced Contact: after April 30th 2011 or still in production. Ramyata Limbu (Festival Director) April 26-May 6, 2012 Contact: Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival dei Popoli Himal Association, Patan Dhoka Festival, Canada Borgo Pinti 82r Kathmandu, Nepal Deadline for entries: not yet set 50121 Florence - Italy E-mail: [email protected] / Contact: Web: www.festivaldeipopoli.org [email protected] Web: http://www.hotdocs.ca/ Web: http://www.kimff.org/content/ November 14-20, 2011 May 9-13, 2012 Ethnographicterminalia 2011, January 19-29, 2012 11th Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Montreal Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, USA Festival field, studio, lab Deadline for entries: August 15/September Submission deadline: 15th December 201 Society for Visual Anthropology 2/September 26,2011 http://www.gieff.de/ Submission deadline: 24 June 2011 @ 5pm PST. Contact: www.ethnographicterminalia.org Web: http://festival.sundance.org/ [email protected] January 25-February 2, 2012 41st edition of the International Film Festival November 16-27, 2011 Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The 24th International Documentary Film Festival Deadline for entries: Short films (up to 60 min.) Amsterdam IDFA 2011, Amsterdam. completed before 1 July 2011: 1 September 2011, Deadline for submissions: Short films (up to 60 min.) completed after 1 July May 1, 2011 for all films completed between 1 2011: 1 October 2011, Feature length films (60+ August 2010 and 1 April 2011. min.): 1 November 2011 August 1, 2011 for all films finished after 1 April Web: http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/ 2011. However, it is important to enter your documentary at the earliest possible moment. February 9-19, 2012 Contact: Web: www.idfa.nl The 62nd International Film Festival - Berlinale, Berlin, Germany.