http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/programmation/scientific-events/symposiums.html

Musée du Quai Branly

Friday 30 and saturday 31 March 2012
9h30-19h00
Salle de cinéma
International symposium organised by Caterina Pasqualino (CNRS), Arnd Schneider (University of Oslo) in collaboration with the musée du quai Branly and the Centre de Coopération Franco-Norvegienne en sciences humaines et sociales, Paris.

How can we broaden the fields of observation of reality? Contemporary art and experimental film are possible ways in that they disturb our assumptions and allow a distance for the observer. Tools or processes used by visual artists and filmmakers - pen camera, looping, fast or slow movements, multiple screens, networking surveillance cameras - question our understanding of the world. These news visions encourage the observers as anthropologists, to change the shape of their stories.

During the 1940s and 1950s, artist and ethnographer Maya Deren researched the practical and theoretical implications of the filmed image.
She suggested that it is not enough to save the appearances of the world through film. The filmmakers must subject themselves to restore their double vision through multiple sensory experiences. Similarly, other artists and anthropologists argue that the optical perception of the world is not sufficient, as one has to consider how its formal qualities mingle with acoustic, haptic, olfactory, and gustatory sensations.

The representation of lived time is another field of investigation.
Anthropologists, who wonder how to stay closer to the complexity of
lived time in the field, look to offer new forms of restitution, while
experimental artists, who struggle against the compression of
narrative time, set up elements for a new foundation of an increased
sensitivity to the real.

Anthropology, art and experimental film question our perception. To see is also to understand. This conference attempts to renew visual testing protocols in order to amplify our understanding of the world.

Call for Papers: 2010 American Anthropological Association Meeting/
Society for Visual Anthropology

“Perception, Production and Circulation: Sensory Ethnography through Media”

Key Words: sensory ethnography, media production, anthropology of the senses, aesthetics, practice, circulation, affect

Session Abstract:
This panel is organized by graduate students at Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab in conjunction with the launch of a new academic journal of sensory ethnography. Selected projects/papers will have the opportunity to be published in the first edition of the Journal of Sensory Ethnography (working title).

Through this panel we aim to recognize and problematize the relationship between theoretical abstraction and material concreteness, to reimagine the relationship between sensing, knowing, and thinking, and to reexamine the implications of this for ethnographic media. "Sensory ethnography" holds promises of engaged scholarship that explores the evocative and representative, the affective and effective, the feeling and the meaning of salient features of everyday life.

Today the potential for innumerable combinations of media promises innovative modes of producing, transmitting, circulating and generating ethnographic material. This panel seeks to discuss these various modes and mediums vis-à-vis its relevance to improving our understanding of culturally mediated apprehension of sensoria. Submitted abstracts may include but are not limited to paper presentations, video, audio recording, and multimedia projects with a goal to elaborate the capacity of these modes for critical engagement with the emerging scholarship of sensory ethnography. Panel abstracts can explore (but are not limited to) such themes as:

- image production and circulation
- senses and religion
- senses and the city
- memory
- place-making
- affect and publics
- senses of home
- sound/soundscapes
- senses and the built environment
- senses and gender
- media and perception
- ethnographic methodologies/ethics/research
- sensory engagement.

Please submit abstracts, no later than March 26th, to:

Julia Yezbick yezbick@fas.harvard.edu and Aryo Danusiri danusiri@fas.harvard.edu

Musée du Quai Branly (Paris, France)
2010, April 9th and 10th.
http://www.quaibranly.fr/fr/programmation/manifestations-scientifiques/colloques-et-symposiums.html

The abstract including 2500 signs must be sent until 2009 October 31.
This is the link to down load the call for papers and the application form :
http://phanie.ethno.image.free.fr/index.htm

Send abstracts to:

Sylvaine Conord : s.conord@ivry.cnrs.fr
Fabienne Duteil-Ogata : duteilogata@yahoo.fr
Baptiste Buob ; baptiste.buob@gmail.com

New directions in visual anthropology and cross-cultural mediamaking.
This weeklong festival at Temple University engages the question, what next? in the arts and praxis of cultural representation. The festival includes screenings, lectures, and a daylong symposium of scholars and mediamakers. The event is free and open to the public.

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