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The Center for Visual Anthropology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles is happy to announce a new one-year MA in Visual Anthropology. Continuing the tradition of ethnographic documentary production that the Center has had for 25 years (with over 60 documentaries produced by students, and over 20 by faculty), this new program updates its format by moving into the digital age.
The new Masters Program is open to USC undergraduates majoring in Visual Anthropology and to students coming from any other institution who have a background in Visual Anthropology, ethnographic documentary production or cross-cultural visual studies. It consists of the following courses:

Fall semester
- Contemporary Theory in Anthropology
- Anthropological Media Seminar
Pre-production: Hands on workshop on camera work, shooting techniques, meets in the digital media lab of the Institute for Multi-Media Literacy, established with the USC School of Cinematic Arts
- The Practice of Ethnography
- One 4 unit graduate Anthropology course or 501 Introduction to Visual Studies:
- Methods and Debates

Spring semester
- Seminar in Ethnographic Film
- Advanced Anthropological Media Seminar
Post production: Hands on workshop on editing footage in the digital media lab, established with the USC School of Cinematic Arts
One elective chosen from graduate courses in Anthropology and Visual Studies
Offered in Spring 2010: Anthropology and Popular Culture

The final documentary project must be submitted in rough cut format by the end of August following the completion of all coursework in May.

In addition to filling out the standard on line graduate admissions form, we ask each applicant to submit a 2 page proposal outlining the ethnographic documentary project that they would like to do. This is in addition to the standard one page statement of purpose (detailing your own background and any special circumstances you may have had to deal with). The documentary proposal should indicate the topic or subject of your project and some details about how you plan to shoot, edit and frame your documentary. It can be uploaded as "supporting document #1" in the on line application available at . If you wish to submit copies of earlier visual work you may do so, but it not required or expected of applicants.
We will review external applicants at the end of the month of April. If you have any questions about the application process, write to jhoskins@usc.edu.

International Visual Anthropology Seminar and PhD Student Workshop
Trondheim University (organizers: Arnd Schneider / Ruth Woods)
"Experimenting the Visual in Art and Anthropology: The Ethics of Research and Collaborations"
http://www.ntnu.no/ab/visualanthropology
All enquiries please to:
ruth.woods@ntnu.no / giedre.jarulaitiene@ntnu.no

Fotografia, cinematografia e video per la ricerca etnografica e antropologica
OTTOBRE 2008/MAGGIO 2009

Direttore Didattico: Prof.Francesco FAETA

Istituto Superiore di Fotografia e Comunicazione Integrata
Via degli Ausoni 1 Roma
www.isfci.com
www.sev1.it

Scarica qui il manifesto degli studi

El programa del Master ha sido diseñado desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria, incorporando clases teóricas y prácticas sobre las tecnologías audiovisuales - tanto la fotografía como el vídeo -, así como sesiones teóricas y de visionado en las que se profundiza en la investigación y los desarrollos de la antropología visual.
Inicio: 29 de septiembre de 2008

INFO:
www.masterantropologiavisual.es
master.antropologiavisual@gmail.com
http://www.ub.edu/antropo/visual/Visual_Castella.pdf

MASTERCLASS VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY
SIC / SOUND IMAGE CULTURE
CALL FOR CANDIDATES – DEADLINE 20TH MARCH 2008
Sound . Image . Culture / SIC Master class is formed by a group of anthropologists and filmmakers, in order to offer trained filmmakers and scientists a professional context to develop their personal projects. SIC offers an intensive workshop of six months, assisting
professional filmmakers, social scientists and artists in their personal project. SIC presents a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives and practical workshops so as to link formal and ethical questions during the realization of their anthropological projects. This focus
deals specifically with the interconnection of form and content in anthropological audiovisual creations from an original and personal point of view. The SIC Master class is open to a maximum of 10 participants each year. The selection is based on an audiovisual project proposal (film, video installation, sound creation…) submitted by the candidate with a strong personal motivation and point of view. SIC 2008 starts in mid-April and finish in December 2008 (not full time) Deadline submission projects: 20 March 2008 Participation fee for the entire workshop: 700( Location : Belgium : Brussels & Aalst (near
Brussels) For more details & information : http://www.soundimage.culture.org Contact us at :
contact@polymorfilms.be Masterclass organized by
polymorfilms vzw, subpowered by netwerk vzw

http://www.elektrischerschnellseher.com/sic/Fr/set.html

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The Master of Visual Culture Research aims to foster a critical appreciation of the centrality of visual materials in contemporary social life. At the turn of the twenty-first century our experience of the world is increasingly dominated by visual materials. This process can be identified across many spheres of life and is reflected in the emergence of new research methods and publication formats in the academy, in various technical developments in film making, and in the incorporation of diverse digital technologies into the work of art galleries, museums and other public institutions.
The Master of Visual Culture Research is a multidisciplinary program combining the critical social perspectives of anthropology, art theory and film studies with practical workshops utilising visual media and relevant software. An important focus is on content led digital research and the use of visual media to convey ideas and understandings about the world. There is also a strong focus on understanding visual materials in cross-cultural contexts.
The degree program is designed to cater for the specific interests of individual students as well as covering a core curriculum. All students will complete two core courses and select four from a list of electives. Students can also choose to work intensively on an individually designed research project under expert supervision. Collaborations with national cultural institutions including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive, the National Museum of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery provide unparalleled access to some of the most important visual culture collections in the country.

Prerequisites
Completion of a Bachelor degree with distinction average or a comparable mix of academic and professional expertise

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For the third year, an exciting six-week Summer Program on Japanese Visual Culture will take place at the Tokyo Campus of Temple University Japan (TUJ), May 13 – June 26, 2006. This program consists of two coordinated courses: the first focuses on approaches to studying the richness and complexity of visual culture in Japan; the second allows students to develop modest visual projects (digital still, video or web) on selective topics immediately relevant to visual culture.
Instruction is in English. All course work will be supplemented with an active program of cultural events, trips and lectures in and around Tokyo. Students live in Temple dormitories alongside Japanese students studying English at
TUJ. This program grants course credits to both undergraduate and graduate students.

For additional information, see this web page.


For other descriptions, more details, and application forms,
go to the website

Application deadline: February 15, 2006.

R. Chalfen (rchalfen@temple.edu) and L. Powell
(lindseypowell@msn.com)

Web site

The course website features an ongoing bibliographic database, links of
relevance to the course, syllabus, assignments, and news. It is the course
director's intention to eventually develop the site into a working database
for researchers, produced by students, including biographies of prominent
ethnographic photographers and film makers, concepts and theories in visual anthropology, and essays on the history of visual anthropology.

The course itself is structured historically, emphasizing the ways the field developed over time, and is divided between photography and film, though we
begin by studying colonial exhibitions. The history of anthropology, and theories in anthropology, also play a prominent role in the course content more generally. In addition, students are exposed to some of the classics, and some of the more controversial and debated films in visual anthropology.

El departamento de Antropología Social de la Universitat de Barcelona, organiza un nuevo curso de postgrado en Antropología Visual, que empezará el 3 de octubre del 2005.

Encontrarán mayor información en http://www.ub.edu/antropo/visual/Visual_Castella.pdf
Postgrado en Antropología Visual
Telf. (0034) 933291487
(0034) 934034559

MA in Visual Anthropology

This programme is for students with a degree in Anthropology or a closely related subject who would like to combine theoretical and practical (video) special-isations. It offers lecture/seminar courses and practical training in roughly equal proportions; our dedicated production facilities include digital camcorders and NLE suites.

MPhil and PhD in Visual Anthropology

The MPhil and PhD in Visual Anthropology differs from the standard MPhil and PhD in requiring a dissertation of no more than 80,000 words (as opposed to 100,000) and the production of a film of up to an hour in length or a photographic portfolio of up to 150 images. PhD students with strong visual anthropology interests are currently carrying out research in Guyana, Brazil, Venezuela, the Pacific, Germany, the UK and the USA.

Università di Messina (Francesco Faeta)

Università di Firenze (Paolo Chiozzi)

Università di Siena (Riccardo Putti)

Università della Basilicata (Francesco Marano)

Università di Roma (Antonello Ricci)

Università di Venezia (Felice Tiragallo, Alessandro Spini)

Università di Napoli (Lello Mazzacane)

Starting in September 2002 the Department of Anthropology, University of Kent at Canterbury is offering an innovative new Masters in Visual Anthropology. This explores both traditional and experimental means of using visual images to produce and represent anthropological knowledge, furthering our distinctive Kent tradition of pioneering the uses of multimedia in anthropology. It enables students to develop both critical and practical skills of visual analysis, presenting their dissertations in the form of multimedia documents

Visual Anthropology has been taught as an option course at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA) and the Pitt Rivers Museum (PRM) for over ten years, initially for what is now the M.Sc. / M.Phil. in Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, then for the undergraduate Archaeology and Anthropology degree and finally for what is now the M.Sc. / M.Phil. in Social Anthropology.

Building upon this strength ISCA now offers a full M.Sc. in Visual Anthropology, and applications are invited from students to commence study in October 2002. The degree aims to provide students who have a strong background in social anthropology (or equivalent) with a thorough training in the theories and methods of visual anthropological research, in preparation for planned doctoral research or to gain employment in areas such as museum and visual archive work, or media research.

MA in Visual Anthropology

combining hands-on training in video production with text-based study of anthropological research methods and the critical appreciation of ethnographic and documentary film genres.
Minimum duration is 15 months.

PhD with Visual Media. 

The University Senate has recognised that audio-visual materials may be submitted as an integral component of a doctoral thesis, even though a written text will remain of ‘paramount importance’.  Candidates will normally undertake the MA in Visual Anthropology (or equivalent) as a preliminary year, before proceeding to a 3-year doctoral programme.

A Master of  Philosophy (M.Phil.) programme in Visual Anthropology

is offered by the Department of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences in the University of Tromsø. The programme in Visual Anthropology is sponsored by the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and funded (1997-2001) by the Norwegian Research Council.

I  Aims of the Programme

Visual Anthropology is an increasingly important sub-discipline of social anthropology and has become a significant means of disseminating anthropological knowledge throughout the world, particularly in Third World countries.   The programme at Tromsø  has been designed to:

1. Introduce students to the history of and theoretical concepts in visual anthropology,
2. teach practical methods for using visual methods in anthropological research and publication,
3. make students conversant in the analysis of meaning in visual media, and
4. give students insight into the role of visual media in a global context.

The Department of Anthropology at Temple University offers graduate studies programs in the Anthropology of Visual Communication leading to a Ph.D.

The program is designed to train students of cultural anthropology who wish to study various modes of visual and pictorial communication and/or to communicate anthropological knowledge in some form of pictorial media. Students interested in producing films, videotapes, and photographs will be trained as cultural anthropologists of visual communication not as professional imagemakers. The emphasis of the program is on understanding the cultural dimensions of the pictorial and visual world including

This program is headed by Dr. Jay Ruby .

1. The study, use and production of films, photography, television/video, and other pictorial representations for research and public enlightenment.

2. The analysis of pictorial symbolic forms from a cultural and historical framework

3. Theories of visual and pictorial communication as they relate to technologies and methods for recording and analyzing human behavior.

4. The analysis of how people structure "reality" as evidenced by pictorial productions and artifacts.

5. The relationship of culture, communication, and visual/pictorial perception.

6. The study of the forms of social, political, and economic organization surrounding the planning, production, and use of pictorial forms in communications contexts.

7. The study of semiotics, and other linguistic paradigms for their utility in understanding pictorial images.

8. The study of the relationship between pictures and texts.

The goal of USC's Master of Arts in Visual Anthropology (MAVA) program is to give students competence in the production of scholarly and professional ethnographic films.

South Africa

Graduated Program in Cultural and Media Studies

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• A post-graduate program for 12 students
(ethnic minority and Han-Chinese)
• A course for prospective teachers of VA
(graduates of the first M.A. Course) 

In offering a three semester M.A. course in VA (International Certificate of Visual Anthropology), the EAIVA has developed a course module covering theoretical issues of western Anthropology, the history of film and ethnographic film (Chinese and international), film language, visual representation, filmic construction, film aesthetics as well as camera supported fieldwork/research methods.
The EAIVA curriculum for teaching VA is unique even in an international comparison, as its general idea and perspective are a combination of the theoretical discourse within VA, technical know-how and research related tools in the context of the students' film projects.

The EAIVA Visual Anthropology course module also raises awareness of self-reflexivity necessary in anthropological fieldwork and actual filmmaking situations, during which the students concurrently think "research" and "filmic construction of reality". Thus the focus lies on participatory research and questioning of the role of "observer" and "observed" ("the Self and the Other"), transferring anthropological theory onto the level of practical communication in the field.
Broadening theoretical and methodological concepts in VA, we think the field of VA goes well beyond ethnographic film proper and can be further developed into an anthropology of images including newly established research areas i.e. "Media and Ethnic Representation", "Media and Cultural Identity", and "Anthropology of the Senses".