[ecrea] CFP - New Methods in Media Anthropology

from July 10th to 11th 2014 the symposium on »New Methods in Media 
Anthropology« of the AG Medien in der DGV (Working Group “Media 
Anthropology” of the German Anthropological Association) will take place 
at the University of Siegen (Germany) jointly organized with the 
Graduiertenkolleg “Locating Media”.

Languages of the symposium will be English and German.

We are happy to welcome Cristina Grasseni (Utrecht University) as a key note speaker talking about »Skilled Visions and Ecologies of Belonging«.

Looking forward to meeting you in Siegen.

All the best

Cora Bender, Anja Dreschke, Simone Pfeifer


Cristina Grasseni is an Associate Professor of Anthropology, Utrecht University. As Visiting Scholar and Department Affiliate of the Anthropology Department of Harvard University (2012-14),  she developed a comparative ethnographic project on Solidarity Economies in Italy and Massachusetts, funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research: Seeds of Trust (2013-2014). She is the author of Beyond Alternative Food Networks. Italy’s Solidarity Purchase Groups (2013, Bloomsbury) and Developing Skill, Developing Vision. Practices of Locality in an Alpine Community (2009, Berghahn Publishers) which focuses on visual apprenticeship as a form of relational and situated learning. Her fieldwork with dairy breeders examined how technoscientific development and the reinvention of local foods into heritage items interact with local communities of practice.
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New
Methods
in
Media
Anthropology

Symposium of the Working Group “Media Anthropology” of the German
Anthropological Association in cooperation with Locating Media

Concept: Dr. Cora Bender, Anja Dreschke, Simone Pfeifer

University of Siegen, 10 –11 July 2014
Artur-Woll-Haus / Room AE-A 103
Am Eichenhang 50
57076 Siegen
www.uni-siegen.de/locatingmedia

Thursday, 10 July 2014

14:00 Welcome&  Introduction

14:30 Keynote
Cristina Grasseni (Utrecht University)
Skilled Visions and Ecologies of Belonging
Film Screening: Christmas in August, 2013, 30 min
Cristina Grasseni&  Federico de Musso

16:30 Media Practices&  the Senses
Simone Pfeifer (University of Siegen)
‘Skilled Media Practices’: Reflections on Learning Portrait Photography
in Dakar
Judith Willkomm (University of Siegen)
Mediatisierte Sinne und die Eigensinnigkeit der Medien |
Einige Überlegungen zum Wechselspiel zwischen Sinnen und Medien
im Feldforschungsprozess

18:00 Business Meeting ‘AG Medien’

Friday, 11 July 2014

9:30 Digital Encounters and Transmedia Interactions
Cathrine Bublatzky (University of Heidelberg)
What Can be Seen, be Read and be Listened to? Ethnographic Writing
on Digital Platforms
Roberta Mandoki&  Annika Mayer (University of Heidelberg)
Ageing in South Asian Cities – A Transmedial Exploration

11:30 Audio-Visual Engagements of ‘Modernity’
Thomas John (FU Berlin)
Practice-Based Research on the Art and Media Scene in Chiapas (Mexico)
Melanie Langpap (University of Manchester)
White Lies – The Oxymoron of Modern Nepal

14:30 Infrastructural Challenges
Corinne Büching&  Marie Bartels (TU Berlin)
Netzansichten und Verschwiegenheitsverträge: ethnografische Forschung
in Kontrollräumen kritischer Infrastrukturen

15:15 Final Discussion
Andreas Ackermann (University of Koblenz)

15:45 Farewell and End of the Symposium



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Anja Dreschke

Research Fellow "Locating Media"
Interdisciplinary Research Program (GRK 1769)
University of Siegen - Department of Media Studies

office: Artur-Woll-Haus, Am Eichenhang 50, 57076 Siegen
home: Hansaring 127, 50670 Cologne, Germany

phone  0049 (0) 221 285 99 10
fax	    0049 (0) 221 285 99 11
mobile  0049 (0) 172 266 54 68
(mailmail /at/ anjadreschke.de)

www.anjadreschke.de

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