Jakob Hurda saalis ja veebis.
Andrew Irving (University of Manchester, Professor of Anthropology) ja Alex Tomkins (University of Manchester, PhD researcher of Visual Anthropology)
Sel korral keskendub teadusseminar visuaalantropoloogiale ning selle raames võõrustame Manchesteri Ülikooli antropoloogia professorit Andrew Irvingut ja visuaalantropoloogia doktoranti Alex Tomkinsit. Seminari esimeses osas annab prof. Irving oma meistriklassis ülevaate mitmekülgsetest audiovisuaalsetest ja loovuurimuslikest projektidest, mis on Manchesteri ülikooli visuaalantropoloogia osakonnas teostatud. Meistriklassile järgneb Irvingu ja Tomkinsi loeng nende praegusest uurimis- ja loometööst. Teadusseminar kestab kella 16ni ning kõik huvilised on väga oodatud kuulama.
Sel korral toimub ERMi teadusseminar inglise keeles.
Ettekannetele järgneb akadeemiline arutelu.
Üritus toimub hübriidvormis Jakob Hurda saalis ja veebis.
Link veebis osalemiseks: https://bit.ly/3TrFozA
“Everyday Adventures in the Land of the Living”
Professor Andrew Irving (University of Manchester)
Anthropology is both a fieldwork science and documentary art that addresses fundamental questions about human existence by using ethnographic methods to generate new knowledge about people, societies and cultures. It employs written accounts and arguments—but also film, photography, sound, drawing and artefacts—to document and communicate its theories and findings to academic and non-academic audiences.
This Masterclass will draw on recent classic and experimental works that have been produced under the rubric of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology (University of Manchester), including film and sensory ethnography, experimental and multi-media works, photo essays and graphic art, sound and voice research, performative methods and ethnofiction.
“The World is Full of Magic Things. Vision as Fieldwork Method and Documentary Art”
Alex Tomkins (PhD researcher, University of Manchester)
Professor Andrew Irving (University of Manchester)
This presentation considers how we can use creative visual practices to enable people to understand and engage with the society and culture in which they live. We argue vision is not only a means of seeing but also of worldmaking, especially in contexts of social exclusion and marginalisation.
Routinely excluded from most social and learning contexts, many deaf young people find the spoken and written word practical and psychological barriers to education, social life and relations. By contrast filmmaking and photography, offer an inclusive means of knowledge acquisition and relating to others that proceed from deaf people’s visual lifeworlds. Based on photography and filmmaking workshops with deaf young people in schools in South Africa and Uganda, the presentation considers how we can use visual media to approach subjects, from the most playful to the most challenging, and in doing so facilitate new modes of thinking and reflecting on identity, society and the body.
Andrew Irving is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Manchester. His research areas include sensory perception, time, illness, death, urban anthropology and experimental methods, film and multi-media. Recent books include “The Art of Life and Death: Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice: (Chicago, 2017) and Beyond Text? Critical Practices and Sensory Anthropology, (2016 Manchester University Press); and Whose Cosmopolitanism? Critical Cosmopolitanisms, Rationalities and Discontents, (2014 Berghahn).
Alex Tomkins’ main research interests include Educational and Pedagogical Inclusivity; Child-centred Education; Children and Youth; Disability and Accessibility; Visual, Sensory and Bodily Perception; Child-centred Methods. She has extensive experience working with children and youth from a wide range of backgrounds, including deaf and disabled, street-connected, stateless, and low-income, in the arts and educational sectors. Her current PhD project focusses on deaf education in Uganda, and the development of inclusive curricula activities, including participatory filmmaking/photography, applied theatre techniques and play-based workshops.
Estonian National Museum’s research seminar takes place this time in English.
Lectures are followed by academic discussions.
Estonian National Museum`s research seminar takes place in a hybrid format in Jakob Hurt Hall and online.
Link to online broadcast: https://bit.ly/3TrFozA
Contact:
Tenno Teidearu
researcher
Estonian National Museum
tenno.teidearu@erm.ee