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SOA-8006: Skilled visions, between apprenticeship and standards
Invitation to PhD course, 10 credits ECTS
The course will be held at two locations:
Friday 25th and Monday 28th April, University of Tromsø
Tuesday 29th aft. and Wednesday 30th April, University of Agder (in Kristiansand)
Target group: PhD students in social sciences and humanities.
Prerequisites: Admission to a PhD programme.
The participants will be required to present their own films or still-pictures (visual materials) to the course participants to generate a basis for discussion.
Date: 25, 28 April (UiT) and 29 - 30 April (UiA, Kristiansand).
Organiser: Professor Ida Hydle
Deadline for registration: 11 April
Please use the application form in link below.
Deadline for submitting papers and films before the course: 11 April (send to the same address as the application form).
Venue:
Course venue and rooms will be announced later Map, University of Tromsø)
Contents:
The course will give students knowledge and understanding of the
(i) theoretical and methodological approaches underlying visual ethnography (collaborative filming, visual analysis, community mapping, etc.),
(ii) contemporary and historical tools in research dissemination, and
(iii) the practical skills in and appropriateness of different visual techniques from participatory filming to collaboration with non-visual anthropologists.
Academic content:
The course will consist of lectures, seminars and group work. The themes will involve (i) theoretical approaches to documentary filming and participatory visual techniques; and (ii) the human senses – reflections from different scientific and practical perspectives.
The teaching will concentrate on visual, social and sensuous aspects of perceptions, and on viusal techniques of anthropological knowledge production.
Tromsø 1. First seminar with prof. Cristina Grasseni, University of Bergamo: "visual" and "social" aspects of perceptions of the environment.
The seminar will focus on the many ways in which the perception of the landscape can be investigated with visual tools, in particular:
the camera as catalyst (see Skilled Visions. Between Apprenticeship and standards, ed. by C. Grasseni, Oxford, Berghahn, 2007)
analytical visual analysis (see "Disciplining vision in animal biotechnology", Anthropology in Action 12 (2): 44-55).
"observational cinema" and participant observation (see the film "Those who don't work don't make love")
cooperation between anthropologists and other professional figures in development contexts: cartographers, geographers, landscape experts etc. for
example through community mapping.
Tromsø 2. Second seminar with prof. Cristina Grasseni, University of Bergamo.
Discussion of students film projects.
Agder 1. Lecture by prof. Cristina Grasseni, University of Bergamo: an introduction to the techniques of observational cinema.
The introduction focusses, from a methodological point of view, on collaborative filming projects on life histories and local development, also for non-visual anthropologists and other social scientists who are interested in peace studies, conflict resolution, and restorative justice (screening film by Melissa Lwellyn Davies with the Masai and by David Mac Dougall shot in Sardinia).
Agder 2. Seminar and discussion with prof. Cristina Grasseni, University of Bergamo:
collaborative filming in different situations, with discussion of collaborative film projects produced in prison contexts in the Bergamo area. Use of other narrative technique in collaborative projects, such as creative writing, life histories and community mapping (short clips of 2 films produced in and around Bergamo prison by LAB80 productions, quote another kind of "self-narrative" experiment now underway in Bergamo prison, i.e. the production of books of life histories edited by one of the prison teachers; a report about interviews amongst prison operators in the Bergamo area on their work on the handling of welfare and health issues in Bergamo prison; experience of community mapping as an interesting tool, cross-disciplinary that can be used in different contexts).
The students will be encouraged, but not required, to submit first drafts of their papers and films before the course. The papers and films, which are submitted before the course, will be discussed in plenary or group sessions to provide opportunities for feedback on student presentations. Deadline for this is the same as for registration. Deadline for submitting papers and films before the course: 11 April. Use the same address as the application form.
Examination and assessment:
PhD students who submit films will be required to submit a paper of 10 pages (Times New Roman 12 pages and 1,5 line distance) Students who do not submit films will be required to submit a paper of 15 pages.
The students will be able to choose topics they wish to write about. Students may submit papers and films that are either part of their PhD dissertations or on closely related topics to promote dissertation writing.
Deadline: 2 June:
Final versions of the papers and films will be reviewed by internal and external examiners after the course. Deadline 2 June, submit the papers and films to this address:
Universitetet i Tromsø,
Faculty of Social sciences,
Att.: Hege Folkedal,
9037 Tromsø.
The exam grading criteria will be “pass” or “fail”. Examination will only be available in the spring semester.
Work requirements:
Participation / attendance on course days (80 % compulsory attendance).
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