SV-fak. - Doktorgrad

The Italian anthropologist, Professor Cristina Grasseni (University of Bergamo), Professor Lisbet Holtedahl (Visual Cultural Studies, University of Tromsø) and Professor Ida Hydle (Centre for Peace Studies, University of Tromsø/ Faculty of Health and Sports, University of Agder) will be the course facilitators.

Themes

In TROMSØ, Grasseni will show collaborative film projects produced in prison contexts. Hydle too will supplement with materials from the Norwegian Prison and Restorative Justice Context. There will also be a discussion on life histories, with and without visualisation.

In AGDER, Grasseni and Hydle will focus on collaborative projects, emphasising Grasseni’s recent community map project that had a visual dimension (based on cartography), but not so much geared towards film or visual anthropology.

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).