New-Methods-in-Media-Anthropoly

Symposium of the Working Group “Media Anthropology” of the German
Anthropological Association in cooperation with Locating Media
Organizers: Dr. Cora Bender, Anja Dreschke, Simone Pfeifer

University of Siegen, 10 –11 July 2014
 

Program

Thursday, 10 July 2014
 14:00 Welcome & Introduction
 14:30 Keynote
Cristina Grasseni (Utrecht University)
Skilled Visions and Ecologies of Belonging

Film Screening: Christmas in August, 2013, 30 min
Cristina Grasseni & Federico de Musso

 16:30 Media Practices & the Senses
Simone Pfeifer (University of Siegen)
‘Skilled Media Practices’: Reflections on Learning Portrait Photography in Dakar

Judith Willkomm (University of Siegen)
Mediatisierte Sinne und die Eigensinnigkeit der Medien |
Einige Überlegungen zum Wechselspiel zwischen Sinnen und Medien
im Feldforschungsprozess

 18:00 Business Meeting ‘AG Medien’

Friday,  11  July  2014
9:30 Digital Encounters and Transmedia Interactions
Cathrine Bublatzky (University of Heidelberg)
What Can be Seen, be Read and be Listened to? Ethnographic Writing
on Digital Platforms

Roberta Mandoki & Annika Mayer (University of Heidelberg)
Ageing in South Asian Cities – A Transmedial Exploration

11:30 Audio-Visual Engagements of ‘Modernity’
Thomas John (FU Berlin)
Practice-Based Research on the Art and Media Scene in Chiapas (Mexico)

Melanie Langpap (University of Manchester)
White Lies – The Oxymoron of Modern Nepal

14:30 Infrastructural Challenges
Corinne Büching & Marie Bartels (TU Berlin)
Netzansichten und Verschwiegenheitsverträge: ethnografische Forschung
in Kontrollräumen kritischer Infrastrukturen
15:15 Final Discussion
Andreas Ackermann (University of Koblenz)
15:45 Farewell and End of the Symposium

 

Organization:

Anja Dreschke
Simone Pfeifer
Cora Bender