[Commlist] Call for workshop participation: feeling digital and reimagining fieldwork during COVID Time

Call for Workshop Participation
*Feeling Digital and Reimagining Fieldwork during COVID Time*____

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The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS), 
and the HKU Anthropology Network and Department of Sociology are pleased 
to announce a call for participation in a workshop funded by Universitas 
21 (U21). We will select 20 participants to form 5 groups, each 
conducting a set of experimental and auto-ethnographic fieldwork by 
using digital devices to perform critical “body-theatres”. These 
“body-theatres” will be designed and coordinated by our coach Ms. Anna 
Cruz Benavidez (Anthropologist and Theater Director at the OTRO CUERPO, 
a Theater and Research company). The participants will record the 
experimental fieldwork (less than one hour) and write ethnographic 
diaries to reflect upon these experiences. These recordings and diaries 
will be shared within a group and discussed by outstanding scholars in 
anthropology, sociology, media, and performance studies. The workshop’s 
outputs will be co-authored articles and other creative works based on 
the recordings and ethnographic diaries, followed by the discussants’ 
commentaries. We aim to combine these works into a creative edited 
volume. ____

Through the experimental fieldworks, we will form a deeper understanding 
of body politics and the critical phenomenology of living a “forced” 
digital life amidst the pandemic. We ask critical questions about our 
daily engagement with the “digital” and respond to the questions through 
artistic and philosophical bodily reflections. We seek to advance 
digital ethnography not simply as “fieldwork online” but as a broad 
system of intersubjective connections beyond a narrow boundary of 
empiricism.____

We are honoured to have Prof. Jarrett Zigon (William & Linda Porterfield 
Chair in Biomedical Ethics and Professor of Anthropology, Founding 
Director of the Center for Data Ethics and Justice, University of 
Virginia) delivering a keynote speech for this workshop. And we are 
happy to have outstanding scholars from Austria, Chile, Denmark, Hong 
Kong and the United States joining to form a truly international group 
of discussants.


Interested persons can apply by sending an email with a personal 
statement (maximum 800 words) with a short bio (maximum 250 words) and 
your publication records (both academic and non-academic) if there is 
any to (feelingdigitalworkshop /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(feelingdigitalworkshop /at/ gmail.com)> by *Feb. 28, 2021*. The 
workshop dates and times are May 11 and 12 (20:00-24:00 GMT+8 Hong 
Kong). All are welcome to apply! More detailed information about the 
workshop can be found through the website 
https://www.hkihss.hku.hk/events/digital-ethnography 
<https://www.hkihss.hku.hk/events/digital-ethnography>.____

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