Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Home Ground

Posted on February 21, 2014 by metafactory

A sensuous and intellectually compelling project. ‘Home Ground’ is a short anthropological film exploring how two very different, but geographically close, cultures relate to one another within a striking and vast natural landscape. Featuring Siggi the Icelandic sailor and Dines … Continue reading →

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Borderline Ethnography

Posted on January 15, 2014 by metafactory

The Intermedia Workshop (co-sponsored by Mexic-Arte Museum and Experimental Response Cinema and with support from the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Mexican American Studies, and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies) presents: Artist and Anthropologist Fiamma Montezemolo.  Fiamma … Continue reading →

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Lowrider Space

Posted on August 30, 2013 by metafactory

UT Austin Anthropology alum, Ben Chappell will present his new book on Sunday, September 1st, 2013 at noon. Sunday, Sep 1 12:00p Richard Moya Park 10001 Burleson Rd Austin, TX 78719 Join author Ben Chappell signing his book ‘Lowrider Space’ … Continue reading →

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Cultural Forms in Discussion

Posted on March 6, 2013 by metafactory

Monday, March 18 noon SAC 5.118 Body issues:perverse surveillance and the sexualized sovereign Randolph Lewis Associate Professor in American Studies Gazing or glancing? Photography, Surveillance, and Socialist Colonialism. Craig Campbell Assistant Professor in Anthropology

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Public Ethnography: Making Research Popular

Posted on March 6, 2013 by metafactory

Here’s a great video by Dwayne Beaver…

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The Oxford Comma – Infographic

Posted on February 24, 2013 by metafactory

From On-line schools website:

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Alexander Nemerov lecture

Posted on January 30, 2013 by metafactory

Kissing in August 1945: Two Visions of the Moment 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 … Continue reading →

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The Long Hand lecture series

Posted on September 24, 2012 by metafactory

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 … Continue reading →

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The value of a second

Posted on June 13, 2012 by metafactory

This video is from writer and editor Kevin Kelly.  Kelly recently wrote the WJT Mitchellesque book: What Technology Wants.   Reposted from boingboing.

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Surveillance Teach-in

Posted on April 20, 2012 by metafactory

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 … Continue reading →

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