SVA PROGRAM IN WASHINGTON, DC
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November 29 - December 4, 2005
Joyce Hammond, SVA Program Chair
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2005
9:00 AM - 6.00 PM
VISUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Chair: Thomas D Blakely
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2005
9:00 AM - 1:45 PM
VISUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Chair: Thomas D Blakely
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
RETROSPECTIVE OF FILMS BY ROBERT GARDNER
Organizer(s): Cynthia Close, Peter Allen
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM
FASHION REALITY TV: FASHION AS PRODUCT, FASHION AS PROCESS
Organizer(s): Stephanie Sadre-Orafai, Todd Nicewonger Chair: Todd Nicewonger Participant(s): Jeff Katcherian, Stephanie Sadre-Orafai, Todd Nicewonger, Ayako Takamori Discussant: William Mazzarella
8:00PM - 9:45 PM
REPRESENTING THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST: THE PLACE OF ART IN CULTURAL TRANSMISSION
Organizer(s): Morgan Perkins, Howard Morphy Chair: Howard Morphy Participant(s): Howard Morphy, Abraham Rosman, Christopher Steiner, Morgan Perkins, Charlotte Townsend-Gault
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2005
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
“I’M JUST SHOWING A MOVIE”: A PEDAGOGICAL DISCUSSION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM
Organizer(s): Liam Buckley Chair: Liam Buckley Participant(s): Peter Biella, Fadwa El Guindi, Carol Hermer, Marilyn Thomas-Houston Discussant: Miguel Diaz-Barriga
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
DIGITAL STORYTELLING - USING STORYTELLING AS AN ETHNOGRAPHIC METHOD
12.30 PM - 3.30 PM
DIGITAL VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY WORKSHOP
Presenter(s): Peter Biella, Carol Hermer
1:45 PM - 5:45 PM
Invited Session: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION NOW: STUDIES IN HONOR OF JAY RUBY
Organizer(s): Stephanie M Takaragawa Chair(s): Harald E Prins Participant(s): Milton R Machuca, Nora L Jones, Harald E Prins, Tinna Gretarsdottir, Sam Pack, Courtney Stoll, Matthew S Durington, Kathryn A Ramey, Sarah Elder Discussant(s): Howard Morphy, Faye Ginsburg
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETING
7:45 PM - 9:30 PM
LESSONS FROM THE RECENT AND MORE DISTANT PAST: POLITICAL IMAGES OF VIOLENCE, SUBALTERITY AND IDENTITY
Chair: Maria Schelle Solano Participant(s): Melinda Kanner, Maria Schelle Solano, M. Gabriela Torres, Caroline Francis, Allyson Purpura, Carolyn Heinz, Hulya Sakarya
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2005
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Invited Session: PHANTOMS, FESTIVALS, DANCES, ANTHROPOLOGY AND OTHER BLUES: A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN BISHOP, THE FILMMAKER
Organizer/Chair: Guha Shankar Discussant(s): Naomi Bishop, Luis Vivanco, John Homiak, Guha Shankar, John Bishop
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
PAUL VIRILIO, CULTURE AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Organizer/Chair: Sigurjon B Hafsteinsson Participant(s): Jay Gabriel, Juris Milestone, Udo R Krautwurst, Jonathan Corliss, Rebecca L Carlson, Katia M Almeida-Tracy Discussant(s): Sarah S Jain
1:45 PM - 3:30 PM
(RE)COLLECTION AND (RE)PRODUCTION: VISUAL ECONOMIES AND SOCIAL MEMORY
Organizer(s): Andrea Walsh, Aaron Glass Chair: Lisa Mitchell Participant(s): Lism Buckley, Shelley Butler, Jennifer Karson, Andrea Walsh, Aaron Glass Discussant: Jake Homiak
VISUALIZATIONS OF EMBODIMENT, FETISHIZING, APPROPRIATING, DECONSTRUCTING AND MEDIATING
Chair: Michele Stander Participant(s): Lakshmi Fjord, Shu-Fan Wen, Michele Stander, Amy Cox, Denise Blum, Susan Pietrzyk, Kevin Pittle
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
EXPLORING THE USES OF VISUAL FORMS (Poster session)
Participant(s): Pamela Stern, Dia Flores, Paul Bick, Wendy Dickinson, Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, Nancy Lipkin Stein, Andrea Heckman, Jerome Crowder
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
BUSINESS MEMBERS MEETING. ALL WELCOME
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2005
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
POST-COLONIAL BROADCASTING: STRUGGLING FOR PLACE AND HISTORY IN THE MASS MEDIA
Organizer(s)/Chair(s): Amahl Bishara, Daniel Fisher Participant(s): Daniel Fisher, Kira Kosnick, Amahl Bishara, Naomi Schiller Discussant: Dominic Boyer
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
PRAGMATICS AND PRACTICES: USING IMAGES FOR RESEARCH
Chair: Jia Lou Participant(s): Misuk Kim, Jia Lou, Zhifang Song, Sylvia Martin, Rowenn Kalman, Emily Yates-Doerr, Kristin Dowell
1:45 PM - 3:30 PM
BREAKING THE GEOGRAPHY OF POSTCOLONIALITY
Organizer: Isabel Rodrigues Chair: Andrea Klimt Participant(s): Clara Carvalho Picarra, Lisa Knauer, Cristina Mehrtens, Timothy Sieber, Isabel Rodrigues Discussant(s): Andrea Klimt, Timothy Sieber
NON-SVA EVENTS
The Graduate Association of Visual Anthropologists (GAVA) presents the
2005 Visual Culture Conference::
A Future for the Anthropology of Visual Communication
with Special Tribute to John Marshall
Hosted by The Department of Anthropology, American University
DATE: Wednesday, November 30, 2005
TIME: 12:45-6:00pm
LOCATION: American University, main campus, Butler Pavilion, 6th Floor, Butler Boardroom
The Visual Culture Conference is forum of peer-reviewed presentations sponsored by the Graduate Association of Visual Anthropologists, which is based at Temple University but made up of students worldwide who are engaged in the anthropology of visual
communication/visualanthropology. The Visual Culture Conference seeks to cultivate a community of young scholars interested in all facets of anthropology and the visual, and to provide a platform for the presentation and discussion of visually-based and experimental work. The Visual Culture Conference is held annually alongside the American
Anthropological Association meetings. In addition to the typical conference proceedings, this year's conference will include a tribute to the late John Marshall, visual anthropologist who spent five decades filmmaking the everyday lives and struggles of the !Kung in
the Kalahari Desert of Namibia.
This Preliminary Program is open to changes up until the date of the conference. Please recheck this page or contact Andrea McDowell at gam@temple.edu for more details.
PRESENTATIONS INCLUDE:
12.45-12.50 Opening Remarks
12.50-1.15 Bridget McDonnell, University of South Carolina
Seeing Refugee: The Representation of Somalis in South Carolina
1.15-1.40 Jenn Guitart, New York University
Worms in the Big Apple
1.40-2.05 Jenna Musket, Temple University
Going Public: Picturing Cultural Changes in a "Post-Industrial" Neighborhood
2.05-2.30 Samuel Yum, University of Washington
Skagit Voices: A (Visual) Oral History
2.30-2.55 Discussion
2.55-3.10 Break
3.10-3.35 Kimberly Cavanagh, University of South Carolina
Dishing Up the Imagined: Examining the Bedouin-ization of Jordan's National Identity for Tourism through Cuisine and Hospitality
3.35-4.00 - Ruti Talmor (New York University)
"In Zion": Rasta Youth Culture at the Arts Centre, Accra
4.00-4.25 Alicia Blum-Ross, University of Oxford
Somali Refugees Re-imagine Themselves: New Applications for "Indigenous Media"
4.25-4.45 Discussion
4.45-5.00 Break
5:00-6:00 THE MARSHALL HOUR: A Tribute to the work of John Marshall
Featuring: A Tribute to John Marshall, 1932-2005
- Alexandra Eliot Marshall, Ph.D. & Sandeep Ray
The Hunters Redux* (*a necessary audacity)
- Matthew Durington, Ph.D. (Towson University)
6:00 Closing Remarks
6:30 GAVA invites you to join us at Trio's Fox and Hounds
(1537 17th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20036, in the Dupont Circle area)
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