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Discounted Registration for students and concessions for Beyond Text:
Synaesthetic and Sensory Practices in Anthropology finishes today on May
31st. Discounted prices have been kept deliberately low Film Festival £49
(£29 students and concs). Conference £79 (£49 students and concs). Register
now to ensure your place http://www.raifilmfest.org.uk/registration.htm
For latest details of sessions and speakers and a provisional conference
timetable see: http://www.raifilmfest.org.uk/conference.htm
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Speakers include: Don Brenneis, Paul Carter, Peter Crawford, Elizabeth
Edwards, Steven Feld, Penny Harvey, Paul Henley, David Howes, Sharon
MacDonald, David MacDougall, George Marcus, Susan Meiselas, Howard Morphy,
Judith Okely, Chris Pinney, Catherine Russell, Arnd Schneider, Gary Tarn,
Lucien Taylor, James Thompson, Janet Wolff
On* Wednesday, 27 June *the award winning director *Kevin Macdonald*, whose
most recent film Last King of Scotland about the Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin
won an Oscar for Best Leading Actor for Forest Whitaker and the BAFTA
Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film will be in conversation with
anthropologist *Hugh Brody*.
On *Thursday 28 June *there will be the Public Debate: 'Anthropology on
television - Education or Entertainment?' chaired by Anna Ford
On *Sunday 1st of July*, the award winning author Caryl Phillips will do a
reading and take part in a lunchtime discussion with anthropologist *Steven
Feld * and the artist *Virginia Ryan*, about their exhibition
*'Castaways'*which is being staged at the Whitworth art gallery as
part of the Beyond
Text: Synaesthetic and Sensory Practices in Anthropology Conference.
*Castaways* is a mixed media exhibition by visual artist *Virginia Ryan* in
collaboration with acoustic anthropologist *Steven Feld*. This exhibition
has transformed a gallery into an environment concerned with the washed-in
and washed-out history and memory of displacements, gold and slavery along
the one-time African Gold Coast, resonating with the current anniversaries
of Ghanaian independence and the abolition of slavery. The exhibition has
also been planned and scheduled so as to address the creative and
intellectual possibilities of 'Beyond Text?'
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*Beyond Text? Image:Voice::Sound:Object Synaesthetic and Sensory Practices
in Anthropology*
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*In combination with 10th Royal Anthropological Institute International
Festival of Ethnographic Film*
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*University** of Manchester** *
*June 30th to July 2nd 2007*
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*Beyond Text? explores the implications of the 'sensory turn' for practice
led anthropology. It asks what may lie beyond text and considers the
possibilities of combining different elements of image:sound::voice:object?*
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*Beyond Text? asks how might be possible for anthropology to communicate
human experience and construct forms of knowledge through different
combinations of visual, material and acoustic media?*
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*Beyond Text? considers artistic methods of doing and representing
ethnography, including film, photography, sound recordings, art
installations, sculptural and other plastic media, dramatic performance and
museums.*
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*Speakers include: Don Brenneis, Paul Carter, Peter Crawford, Elizabeth
Edwards, Steven Feld, Penny Harvey, Paul Henley, David Howes, Sharon
MacDonald, David MacDougall, George Marcus, Susan Meiselas, Howard Morphy,
Judith Okely, Chris Pinney, Catherine Russell, Arnd Schneider, Gary Tarn,
Lucien Taylor, James Thompson, Janet Wolff*
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