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Metamorphosis: The Body As Social Creation
21st September 2005
9th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film
www.therai.org.uk <http://www.therai.org.uk>
Venue: Linacre College
10.30am Coffee
11.00am Film: 'Womanhood & Circumcision. Three Maasai Women...'
A mother and her daughters discuss their feelings about their infibulations
11.30am Film: 'Asylum'
An Oscar-nominated documentary about a Ghanaian woman fleeing genital mutilation in her country, only to encounter immigration problems in the U.S.
11.50am Speaker: Pat Caplan
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London
(Or Suzette Heald, Professor of Social Anthropology, Brunel University)
12.10pm Discussion: Panel and audience questions and comments
Panellists include the speakers and Sara Davidmann (photographer working with transsexual & transgender people, University of the Arts London), Soraya Tremayne (anthropologist of fertility and reproduction), Kate Brothers (journalist and medical anthropologist), Alicia Blum-Ross (visual anthropologist)
12.50pm Break (sandwich lunch provided by organisers of the film festival)
1pm Film: 'Designer Vaginas'
A documentary film that takes a look at the world of vaginal surgery. Dubbed "the new nose job", this is a little-known practice that many people still consider taboo
2pm Speaker: Katherine Morris
Lecturer in Philosophy at Mansfield College, University of Oxford
2.20pm Discussion: Panel and audience questions and comments
3pm Close
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