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Via Barbara Knorpp, UCL Institute for Archaeology/Museum Studies Visual Anthropology and the City is a one-day-symposium at UCL, which brings together anthropologists, filmmakers, and artists and organised by the Institute of Archaeology, Department of Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) on Friday 14th October 2016.Continue Reading

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Via the Royal Anthropological Institute   ‘photography + (con) text’ is pleased to announce a call for papers and visual submissions for a conference on ‘Photography in Academic Research’ to be hosted by UCL Museum and Heritage Studies, Institute of Archaeology, in collaboration with RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute) and Birkbeck,Continue Reading

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Anna Grimshaw, Emory University In 1960, Bill Coperthwaite bought 300 acres of wilderness in Machiasport, Maine. Influenced by the poetry of Emily Dickinson and by the back to the land movement of Scott and Helen Nearing, Bill Coperthwaite was committed to what he called“a handmade life.”   For over fifty yearsContinue Reading

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[This is an invited post from a PhD student working at Oxford University, accompanied by a series of comments about visual methods from PhD students working at UCL] Shireen Walton, PhD candidate in Anthropology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford shireen.walton@sant.ox.ac.uk Oxford Digital Ethnography Group (OxDEG)/https://www.facebook.com/groups/OXDEG/  Continue Reading

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Probing further: the untormented “white body” How does one review an exhibition that has been banned from public view? The censorship of Exhibit B earlier this year in London constitutes yet another interesting visual and performative episode in Brett Bailey’s controversial saga currently touring Europe, as his ‘tableaux vivants’ orContinue Reading

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Christopher Pinney, UCL Anthropology Salman Rushdie once suggested in an interview that in India you can traverse several centuries just by crossing the road.  Perhaps another way into the same question was provided by Malraux, (inevitably) more poetically in his Anti-Memoirs (“…in war, in museums real or imaginary, in culture,Continue Reading

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25th August – 3rd September 2013, Antwerp, Belgium Applications can be submitted by completing the online registration form at www.ua.ac.be/VisualMethodsSeminar from January 1st 2013 until April 15th 2013. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The University of Antwerp announces a 10 day program of study and practice in visual methods research and teachingContinue Reading