Dear all,
You might already have seen this — bullet point 3 — Social Analysis has opened a call for special issues, with proposals due 1 May and manuscripts 1 September. Might be worth considering if we're going down the route of a special issue for the moral community workshop.
All the best,
Kenni
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> 3. Social Analysis - Call for special issues
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> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 13:17:45 +0100
> From: "John, Thomas" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: audio-visual anthropology, media and documentary arts program
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> CfA:
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> Dear Colleagues
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> we would appreciate if you'd forward this through your department's lists, to your students and other people & networks who may be interested in advanced training in Audio-Visual & Media Anthropology and the Documentary Arts. (sorry for crossposting, some of you have received this, circulated yet via VANEASA and Medianthro lists)
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> Our course is for regular students but also academics and professionals interested in further part-time education in our field.
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> This international course is taught part-time and in blocks of courses (50 full days in-house / two years, plus five video conference courses and a third year for the final film/multimodal media project, field research and practical phase).
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> Master and Advanced Training Program "Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices" | University of Münster, Professional School
> The application period for the new master course starting in autumn 2024 is open until 31 March 2024.
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> Video Presentation of the Course: https://vimeo.com/915683746
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> In today’s globalized world, where media representations shape social and political spheres, a critical understanding of media and (audio-) visual culture is crucial. Media studies, rooted in social anthropology, offers an in-depth approach to analyzing the complex connections between media, culture and society. The three-year master program "Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices" trains its participants in (1) theory, methods and practices of audio-visual and multimodal anthropology, (2) the documentary arts and artistic research (film/photography/installation), as well as (3) media culture and media anthropology. Students learn about the theoretical and practical foundations of audio-visual anthropology, they gain experience in film production, project and film/media proposal development, as well as (audio-) visual installation, web-documentary or other forms of multimodal media production. The language of instruction in the master program is English. We emphasize strongly participatory and collaborative media and knowledge production, sensory, experimental and emancipatory narratives strategies of creative documentary.
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> The program offers all classes (modules 1-7) as blocks of courses (around 50 full in-house days) and participants need not be based permanently in Münster or Germany for that matter. In addition to the seven block courses students participate in five further online courses (tutorials) to follow up the modules and assignments. In the third year (modules 8 and 9), students complete an internship or alternatively an individual practical phase, and write finally a shortened MA thesis that is accompanied by a film or other media project such as an installation, photography exhibit, or a multimodal website or web-documentary project. Thesis and media project are strongly intertwined and both count equally for the final MA project´s assessment.
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> Prof. Thomas Stodulka and Thomas John are co-directing the master program in 'Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices' at the University of Münster. Thomas Stodulka is Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Münster. Thomas John is a lecturer, Audio-Visual & Media Anthropologist, doctoral researcher at FU Berlin. The program is taught by an international team of highly qualified lecturers. Please find further info at our homepage https://professional-school.uni-muenster.de/masterstudiengange/visual-anthropology<https://professional-school.uni-muenster.de/masterstudiengange/visual-anthropology-media-and-documentary-practices/> , as well as to our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/master.anthropology<https://deref-gmx.net/mail/client/_DULi92C3V0/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmaster.anthropology> and instagram channel http://www.instagram.com/master.visual.anthropology <http://www.instagram.com/master.visual.anthropology> .
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> Check the Video Presentation of the Course: https://vimeo.com/915683746
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> If you have any questions, don't hesitate getting in touch!
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> Cheers, Thomasj & Team (Thomas Stodulka, Pablo Holwitt, Julia Blumberg, Helmar Kurz)
> MA Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices
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> Thomas John | Doctoral Researcher | Lecturer | Filmmaker
> Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Free University Berlin
> Associate Lecturer Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Münster
> Co-Director MA Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices
> https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ethnologie/en/personal/lehrbeauftragte/thomasjohn.html
> https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/ethnologie/personen/doktorand_innen/john.html
> MA Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices:
> https://weiterbildung.uni-muenster.de/visual-anthropology
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> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:31:37 +0000
> From: Lena Kaufmann <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: CfA: PhD position in SNSF project "Digital Agriculture" (University of Fribourg)
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> Dear colleagues,
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> I am looking for a PhD student to work with me in my new project "Digital agriculture: Sino-European contrasts, correspondences and collaborations" at the University of Fribourg (for details see below or https://www.unifr.ch/anthropos/de/news-und-events/news/30636/phd-position-100-in-the-research-project-digital-agriculture?)
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> I would be grateful if you could share this with interested students and colleagues. Depending on the language skills and field access of the applicant, the project could focus more on the German or Chinese sides respectively.
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> Don't hesitate to contact me should you have questions.
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> Thank you and best wishes,
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> The Unit of Social Anthropology at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) is inviting applications for a
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> PhD Position (100%) in the research project «Digital agriculture: Sino-European contrasts, correspondences and collaborations»
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> Starting date 1 August 2024 (or by agreement). The position is limited to four years.
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> The successful PhD candidate will conduct research within the Ambizione project «Digital agriculture: Sino-European contrasts, correspondences and collaborations» funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The project is headed by Dr. Lena Kaufmann. Based on the example of the digitalization of agriculture through drones/UAVs in China, Germany and Switzerland, the overall objectives of this project are to gain an in-depth, actor-centered understanding of the challenges and opportunities of agricultural digitalization through drones, and to use this as a case for understanding broader reconfigurations of global hierarchies of digital technologies and knowledge. The project consists of two studies exploring the use of agricultural drones in the Sino-German context (PhD candidate) and in the Sino-Swiss context (PI). Together, the two subprojects aim to better understand the digitalization of agriculture, especially from the farmers’ perspectives, to assess its social implications and contribute to responsible innovation. A further goal of the project is to achieve more comprehensive, actor-centered insights into China’s role in global food security, shedding light on the challenges related to the implementation of digital agricultural technologies in a transnational context.
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> * M.A. (or equivalent) in Social or Cultural Anthropology, China Studies, Human Geography, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology, or related fields
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> * Interest in questions of digitalization, technologies and global China
> * Ability to work independently as well as in collaboration with the team
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> * The opportunity to become integrated in national and international research networks, including research visits at our partner institutions in Germany and China
> * Access to funding for fieldwork, workshops, and conference visits abroad
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> The PhD employment is limited to four years, with a salary according to the SNSF regulations<https://www.pa.uzh.ch/en/news/news/Teuerungszulage-f%C3%BCr-alle-Doktorierenden-ab-dem-01.-Januar-2023.html> for PhD students between CHF 48,680 and CHF 51,790 annually.
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> Applications should be submitted electronically in a single PDF file by 30 April 2024 to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and include a motivation letter, CV, degree certificates, contact details of at least one reference person, and a chapter of the M.A. thesis or an equivalent sample text. Interviews with selected candidates will be held in person or online on 21 and 22 May 2024 with Dr. Lena Kaufmann and Prof. Dr. Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi.
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> For more information about the Unit of Social Anthropology, see here<https://www.unifr.ch/anthropos/de/>. For further information on the advertised position please contact the Ambizione project leader Dr. Lena Kaufmann ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
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> Dr. Lena Kaufmann
> Senior Research Associate, SNSF project “Digital Entanglements”
> University of Zurich | Department of History
> Karl Schmid-Strasse 4 | 8006 Zurich | Switzerland
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> Tel.: +41 44 634 57 68
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> Associate Lecturer
> University of Zurich | Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
> Andreasstrasse 15 | 8050 Zürich | Switzerland
> http://www.isek.uzh.ch/<https://www.isek.uzh.ch/en/anthropology/Staff/associatelecturers/lenakaufmann.html>
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> Regional Group China(s), German Anthropological Association
> https://ethnologiechinas.org/
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> Selected publications:
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> Kaufmann, Lena. 2024, in press. "Prefiguring China's Digital Silk Road to Europe: Connecting Switzerland<https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-257849>." In Seeing the Belt and Road Initiative: The Politics of (In)Visibility, edited by Rachel Silvey and Edward Schatz. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
> Kaufmann, Lena. 2023. "Switzerland: The People's Map of Global China Country Profile<https://thepeoplesmap.net/country/switzerland/>." In The People's Map of Global China, edited by Ivan Franceschini, Ching Kwan Lee, Nicholas Loubere, and Hong Zhang. Hong Kong: The People's Map of Global China.
> Kaufmann, Lena. 2021. Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China<https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048552184/rural-urban-migration-and-agro-technological-change-in-post-reform-china>. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
> Kaufmann, Lena. 2020. “Altdorf – Shanghai – Shenzhen – Liebefeld: Swiss-Chinese Entanglements in Digital Infrastructures<https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-190620>.” In Data Centers: Edges of a Wired Nation, edited by Monika Dommann, Hannes Rickli, and Max Stadler, 262–289. Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers.
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> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:50:02 +0000
> From: Fred Lai <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Social Analysis - Call for special issues
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> Dear all,
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> The call for special issues at Social Analysis is now open! Our current call is for proposals to be submitted to the editors at [log in to unmask] by 1 May 2024.
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> Social Analysis publishes up to two Special Issues per year. These are selected through an annual Call for Special Issue Proposals. The shortlisting of proposals will be conducted in consultation with the journal’s Editorial Board. The guest editors of shortlisted proposals will be invited to submit the complete manuscript of the Special Issue by 1 September 2024. The manuscripts will then go to peer review, and on the basis of the reviews, the editors will decide on the publication. If deemed strong enough by peer reviewers and editors, the Special Issue will be published in 2024/25.
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> Special Issue proposals should be up to 2,000 words and include (a) a brief description of the theme and focus, including an explanation of the rationale for its selection of articles; (b) an account of its contribution to the existing literature; (c) an explanation of how the Special Issue addresses the journal’s Aims and Scope; (d) abstracts of no longer than 125 words for each article, indicating expected word length (including endnotes and references); (e) an indication of the state of the manuscript at the time of proposal (e.g., whether drafts of the articles are already available, whether the introduction has been written, whether an afterword is pending).
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> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:11:15 +0000
> From: ILCS <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Dancing Beyond the Black: A New Afro-Diasporic Ethnographic Research Method (9 April)
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> Dancing Beyond the Black: A New Afro-Diasporic Ethnographic Research Method
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> In Barbados, dance is part of the local vernacular; it is a form of communication used to exhibit cultural history, engage in an exploration of self and community, and among other things, reinforce and challenge social constructs. Through my upbringing in Barbados, I was privy to the ways dance was present in the special and mundane moments in everyday life and despite dance being a non-verbal method of communication, complex dance patterns are mastered and developed from a young age then used within interactions. Black Barbadian women are largely underrepresented in socio-political and dance discourse within academia; however, I argue that by using dance as an integral part of qualitative research, it may be possible to discover nuanced perspectives of Black Barbadian womanhood. It is common practice for ethnographers to engage in participant observation, but in dance this can still lead to surface-level reading. Dance anthropologists such as Drid Williams (1991) have advocated for research methods that invite richer readers of movement systems and Diedre Skylar (1991) believed that the relationship between the dance and dancer must be understood through 'kinaesthetic empathy'. To address these needs in the field I curated a methodology that applies the improvisational dance technique known as 'call-and-response' as an interviewing method. This year, during the Crop Over festival period, when dance is practiced by professional and amateur dancers in abundance, I will be incorporating this technique into my fieldwork. In addition to this, I will also be utilising my adaptations of Labanotation to document and archive the dances I experience. Labanotation is a graphic notation system for dance in a linear fashion. In this seminar, I will be breaking down my research methods, unique coding style, and discussing the cultural relevance of these techniques in a community that is often ignored and absent from literature.
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> Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa is a British born Barbadian PhD student in Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. She is also a choreopoet who chiefly uses dance to compose her work. Her practice-led doctoral research interrogates the existing framing of dances performed by black Barbadian women to unearth buried narratives of Black femininity in Barbados. Safiya is applying Afro-diasporic dance techniques as part of her ethnographic fieldwork.
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