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Beeld voor Beeld 2008 – Festival of Visual Anthropology (Amsterdam)

Published on June 4, 2008 by lorenz Posted in * Film festivals, *In English, antropologi.info calendar, Europe outside Scandinavia

4-8 June 2008, Tropentheater Amsterdam (NL)

Beeld voor Beeld (Image by Image) positions itself at the crossroads of visual anthropology, documentary filmmaking and politics.

Counterbalancing preconceived ideas is the main focus of the Beeld voor Beeld Festival. Rituals surrounding death in different societies, the influence of globalization on African ‘traditional’ societies, as well as the life of illegal immigrants in The Netherlands and in Spain, and Moroccan women participating in women’s running groups in their free time: these are all themes which hopefully will give the audience a better understanding of human societies.

More information: http://www.beeldvoorbeeld.nl/2en/fs.html

4-8 June 2008, Tropentheater Amsterdam (NL)

Beeld voor Beeld (Image by Image) positions itself at the crossroads of visual anthropology, documentary filmmaking and politics.

Counterbalancing preconceived ideas is the main focus of the Beeld voor Beeld Festival. Rituals surrounding death in…

New Cultures of Intimacy and Togetherness in Asia (Delhi)

Published on May 9, 2008 by lorenz Posted in * Conferences, *In English, antropologi.info calendar, Asia

New Delhi, India, May 9-10, 2008

This conference seeks to bring together scholars working across areas such as sociology, gender studies, film/media studies, anthropology, popular culture, and urban studies in order to explore emerging cultures of intimacy and friendship in contemporary non-Western contexts.

We are particularly interested in perspectives that relate the topic to the making of social selves at a time great economic and cultural change in many Asian societies. Socially, ‘non-Western’ has often been considered synonymous with traditional, conservative, static and illiberal, particularly in contexts of intimate/personal relationships that are expected to conform to certain values, norms and expectations of heritage.

However, following modernity at large and specific influxes of change like economic liberalization, globalization and the worldwide web, there is, increasingly, a perception (if not a belief) that social structures and networks have been affected, and “new” cultures of intimacy and togetherness are emergent (if not already established). There is a decided conviction that such new structures and networks are visible in day-to-day contexts at work, home and leisure, and that they reflect political, cultural, emotional and intellectual transitions and upheavals.

At this conference, we would like to explore this notion of emergent cultures of “new” intimacies and togetherness in the contemporary non-Western world, in as varied a social and cultural register as possible.

Inquiries and expressions of interest to: intimaciesconference (AT) yahoo.com

Brinda Bose, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, India
Sanjay Srivastava, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

New Delhi, India, May 9-10, 2008

MAAH 2008 – 5th conference on Medical Anthropology At Home

Published on May 8, 2008 by lorenz Posted in * Conferences, *In English, antropologi.info calendar, Scandinavia

Medical anthropology, health care systems and the client society -investigating interactions of practice, power and science

Place of venue: Denmark, The Sandbjerg Estate – Aarhus University Conference Centre, Sandbjergvej 102, 6400 Sønderborg (southern Denmark), http://www.sandbjerg.dk/en/index.php

Date: 8th of May to 11th of May 2008

Introduction:
We would like to point to medical anthropology*s growing engagement and cooperation with local medical institutions and medical research units as not only isolated approaches to research of health and illness, but as one leg of a triangle of interconnected social and scientific processes with certain consequences. The triangle consists of medical anthropology, the health care system and the client society. This triangle is made up by three powerful but also interdependent actors that influence each other and presumably exhibit a shift of balances compared with former years of medical anthropological research.

Invited key note speakers:

– Susan Reynolds Whyte, professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen University, Denmark

– Nikolas Rose, professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

– Annemiek Richters, professor, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands

– Giovanni Pizza, senior researcher, lecturer, Dipartimento Uomo & Territorio, University of Perugia, Italy.

– Cheryl Mattingly, professor, Department of Anthropology, USC College, USA

Price: Preliminary price per person for the whole conference (3 nights with full board): 400 EURO. The conference organizers will try to raise funds for the conference and the price might be reduced.

Any questions regarding the conference are welcome and should be sent to Mette Bech Risør, mbris (AT) as.aaa.dk, Research Clinic for Functional Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital or Bjarke Paarup, etnobpl (AT) hum.au.dk, Department of Ethnography and Anthropology, Aarhus University.

The organizers are preparing a homepage for the conference and all further information will be conveyed via this homepage.

Medical anthropology, health care systems and the client society -investigating interactions of practice, power and science

Place of venue: Denmark, The Sandbjerg Estate - Aarhus University Conference Centre, Sandbjergvej 102, 6400 Sønderborg (southern Denmark), http://www.sandbjerg.dk/en/index.php

Date: 8th of May to 11th of…

9th Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival

Published on April 30, 2008 by lorenz Posted in * Film festivals, *In English, *In German, antropologi.info calendar, Europe outside Scandinavia

30 April – 4 May 2008, Göttingen

The festival promotes documentary cinema with a special emphasis on new films, videos or interactive media (published after 1.1.2005) dealing with socio-cultural processes in a wide sense of the term. The festival is open to all filmmakers, but especially those from anthropology, sociology, folklore and neighbouring disciplines. It provides a great opportunity for international co-operation in Visual Anthropology and documentary filmmaking.

officially website http://www.gieff.de/

auf Deutsch:

Das 9th Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival 2008 findet auch dieses Jahr statt.
Vom 30. April bis zum 4. Mai werden in der Paulinerkirche (Teil der Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek) am Papendiek 14 in Göttingen, 60 Medien aus über 30 Ländern präsentiert und premiert. Dokumentarfilmer, Studenten und interessierte Doku-Fans haben hier die Möglichkeit die neuesten und besten Filme zu sehen. Gezeigt werden Filme die im weitesten Sinne sozio-kulturelle Prozesse deuten, beschreiben, kritisieren usw. Der Fachbereich bezieht sich auf die Ethnologie, die Soziologie und ihre Nachbardisziplinen.

Das Thema dieses Festivals setzt sich aus aktuellen kulturellen Ereignissen rund um die gesamte Welt zusammen. Integration, Migration und Globalisierung sind dabei die tragenden Kräfte.

Webpräsenz: www.gieff.de

30 April - 4 May 2008, Göttingen

Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency (Chicago)

Published on April 25, 2008 by lorenz Posted in * Conferences, *In English, Americas, antropologi.info calendar

University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology, April 25- 27, 2008

This conference calls upon ethnography to widen our understanding of contemporary war, American power, and the structures and logics of security at domestic and international levels. We seek ethnographic understanding of global responses to recent deployments of the US military, and of US military actions in comparison to other forms of coercion, compellance, and intervention.

Reading US military theorists, we seek to understand the emerging interest in study of culture in the broad context of military responses to US military failures (and opportunities). We pursue the full implications of the connection now being sought by the US military between culture and insurgency and turn an anthropological lens on the nature of violence and order in the current era.

More information: http://anthroandwar.uchicago.edu/

University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology, April 25- 27, 2008