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Material, Visual and Digital Culture Research Seminar Series

Mondays 5 pm- 7 pm
Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd floor, 14 Taviton St.

Spring 2013

7 January Chris Pinney (UCL Anthropology)
Gandhi, Camera, Action! Image Citation and Anti-Corruption Politics in 21st Century India

14 January Frances Gooding (Colonial Film Archive, London)
The Visual Vernacular: amateur film and colonial vision in the British Empire 

21 January Laurent van Lancker (Freie Universitat, Berlin, Independent Filmmaker)
Experiencing Cultures: Rethinking Documentary strategies

28 January Paul Basu (Institute of Archaeology, UCL)
Reanimating Cultural Heritage: Digital Curatorship, Knowledge Networks and Social Transformation in Sierra Leone

4 February Pwyll ap Stifin (UCL Anthropology)
Moments of Silence: The Absence of Sound as Materiality at Ground Zero

11 February READING WEEK – NO SEMINAR

18 February Adam Fish (Lancaster Sociology)
Proformations: The Network Activism of American Television Producers, Media Reformers, and Free Software Geeks

25 February Jean Paul Demoule (Sorbonne, Paris)
Title to be announced

4 March Bruce Grant (NYU Anthropology)
Surplus Capital: Notes on the Rebuilding of the Contemporary Caucasus

11 March Maia Nuku (Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)
Unwrapping gods: encounters with gods and missionaries in 18th century Polynesia

Enquries to Haidy Geismar (h.geismar@ucl.ac.uk) or Chris Pinney (chris.pinney@ucl.ac.uk)

Autumn 2012


October 1 Haidy Geismar (Department of Anthropology, UCL)
“An indigenous commons? Refashioning intellectual property in New Zealand and beyond"

October 8 Yvonne Rogers (UCLIC, UCL)
“Rethinking Cognition in the Wild”

October 15 Charles Ess (Dept of Media and Communication, University of Oslo)
"Ethics of the Internet(s): Philosophical and Cultural Approaches"

October 22 Fernando Dominguez Rubio (CRESC, The Open University)
“On the Material Ecologies of Contemporary Culture and The Challenge of New Media at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)”

October 29 Jannis Kallinikos (ISIG, London School of Economics)
“Technology and Social Practice: Action, Sense-Making, Governance”

November 5 (Reading Week)

November 12 Chow Wah Chan (Firmenich SA, Singapore)
“The Scent of Social Undercurrents: Fragrance Trends and Social Change”

November 19 Nicholas Thomas (Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge), Michael O'Hanlon, Marilyn Strathern, Peter Brunt, Lissant Bolton and Susanne Kuechler
Approaching Art in Oceania: a panel discussion around 'Art in Oceania: a new history' (Thames and Hudson, 2012)

November 26 Andrea Rigon (Sociology, Trinity College Dublin & Bartlett School, UCL)
"Land and infrastructure: the ‘visual’ upgrading of a Kenyan slum"

December 3 Dec Wendy Gunn (SPIRE, University of Southern Denmark)
“The Design Studio as Extension of Field Site”

Cancelled - December 12 James Weiner (Crawford School, Australian National University)
Special Wednesday Seminar at 11am
"Local Perceptions of Environmental Impact in Papua New Guinea's Petroleum Project Area"

Enquries to Stefana Broadbent, Adam Drazin