Monday, March 18
noon SAC 5.118
Randolph Lewis Associate Professor in American Studies
Craig Campbell Assistant Professor in Anthropology
Here’s a great video by Dwayne Beaver…
Thursday, February 14, 2013
3:30 – 4:30 pm.
CLA 1.106
Visual Transmissions: Ways of Knowing at Zaytuna College
Zaytuna College is the first Muslim liberal arts college in the United States. Established in Berkeley, California in 2009, the College brings together first, second, and third generation African American Muslims, White and Latino converts, and the children of immigrants from South Asia, the Caribbean, Africa, Afghanistan, and the Middle East, providing an important manifestation of a multiracial Islam. The wider project examines how racial, gender, class, and devotional differences within American Muslim populations are articulated and experienced through the lenses of Islamic knowledge-practices, Muslim suffering and promise, and cultural production and circulation. The research additionally explores how forms of representation and image-making constitute, suspend, or transform heterogeneous and multiracial collectivities built upon difference.
In this presentation I discuss visuality as an integral part of learning and teaching at Zaytuna College. Corporeal forms of knowing are engaged as students observe particular dispositions and occupy particular spaces. This presentation then looks specifically at my attempts to convey these practices through visual ethnography in ways that complicate the empirical values of video as a form of documentation.
Bio:
Maryam Kashani is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at UT Austin. Her films and videos have been screened internationally.
Thursday, February 7th, 2013 6pm
ART 1.120, The Art Building
How do we remember the end of the Second World War?
Does that time then exist now? If so, what form does it take?
Alexander Nemerov is Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University.
Short Bio:
A scholar of American art, Nemerov writes about the presence of art, the recollection of the past, and the importance of the humanities in our lives today. Committed to teaching the history of art more broadly as well as topics in American visual culture–the history
of American photography, for example–he is a noted writer and speaker on the arts. His most recent books are To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America (2011), the catalogue to the exhibition of the same title he curated at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War (2010). His new book, Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s, will be published by Princeton University Press this fall.
2012-2013 Speaker Series for the department of Anthropology is called “The Longhand: Anthropology, Writing and Inscription.”
Thursday, Sep. 27
Barbara Tedlock
Reverse Anthropology: Writing the Self as Other
SAC 5.118, 12 pm
Dennis Tedlock
“The First 2000 Years of Mayan Literature”
(Organized by the Spanish and Portuguese Department)
BEN 2.104, 4 pm
Aseel Sawalha
“Framing Pictures: Women Fomenting the Art Scene in Amman”
SAC 2.120, 3 pm
(Organized by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies)
Friday, Sep. 28
Dennis Tedlock
Workshop on photography and writing.
Intermedia Workshop (SAC 4.120) at 1pm
RSVP – limited seating – (email: craig.campbell@utexas.edu)
Monday, Oct. 1
Cultural Forms: A Discussion led by John Hartigan
SAC 5.118, 12 pm
Vincent Debaene (EU Center for Excellence Lecture)
“Writing Anthropology in the 20th Century: The French Case”
SAC 2.302, 4 pm
(EU Center for Excellence Lecture, organized by the Center for European Studies)
Monday, Oct. 8
Steve Rosen
“Shelter from the Storm: Preliminary Conclusions on Desert Pastoralism from the Analysis of Rock Shelters and Dung Layers in the Negev
SAC 5.118, 12 pm
Monday, Oct. 22
Kirin Narayan
Title TBA (on anthropology and writing)
SAC 5.118, 12 pm
Monday, Oct. 29
Kenneth D. Rose
“The Earliest Primates of India”
SAC 5.118, 12 pm
Monday, Nov. 5
Bob Bednar
“Placing Affect: Remembering Ordinary Trauma at Roadside Crash Shrines”
SAC 5.118, 12 pm
Monday, Nov. 12
Melissa Gregg
“Ambient Companions”
SAC 5.118, 12 pm
This video is from writer and editor Kevin Kelly. Kelly recently wrote the WJT Mitchellesque book: What Technology Wants.
Reposted from boingboing.
Nothing like a good ol’ fashioned teach-in! In collaboration with the Whitney (art gallery) a teach-in has been organized in New York city around the topic of surveillance. In my mind some of the most interesting and exciting assemblies of people are organized as companion events to art-exhibitions.
Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras explores issues of war, justice, and power. Her current film trilogy, focusing on America post 9/11, documents the Iraq War, secret state surveillance, and the suspension of the rule of law in the “war on terror.” For this evening program, she is joined by Jacob Appelbaum, computer security researcher, privacy advocate, hacker, and human rights activist. Woven through the Museum will be interactive installations by Stimulate. The Surveillance Teach-In is an artistic and practical commentary on living in the contemporary Panopticon.
