When / Where: November 7th to December 4th, 2010, Du Mois Gallery, New Orleans
Deadline for proposals: 20 Sept 2010
Contact: Craig Campbell (craig.campbell@mail.utexas.edu), www.ethnographicterminalia.org

Ethnographic Terminalia (2010) is scheduled to coincide with the 109th Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association (AAA) in New Orleans. It will take place at a number of sites around
New Orleans with the flagship exhibition at the DuMois Gallery, in the emerging Freret Street Arts
& Cultural District. We seek proposals from artists/ethnographers/artist-ethnographers for
inclusion of their work in this year’s exhibit.

The works exhibited in Ethnographic Terminalia emerge through a desire to produce art as a process or
product of research. As we demonstrated in the Ethnographic Terminalia 2009 exhibition, the
juxtaposition of works that bear nothing more in common than loose disciplinary or discursive
histories—languages of observation and description—produces what might be analogously seen as a
contemporary cabinet of curiosities. The works exist and generate their own logical structures as
autonomous units but they are also part of a larger collection, accruing and developing meaning
through proximity to other works. In this case the curatorial task of locating the various works in
the gallery is critical.

Call for Participation
We seek proposals for both solo and collaborative works that can be installed with a relatively small
footprint. Works can be in any medium: site-specific installation, painting, photography,
printmaking, sculpture, video art, film (short or long), etc. We may be able to accommodate
performance-based works this year in a separate gallery. We will consider proposals for works that
are either silent or that have an audio component contained by headphones. To date, Ethnographic
Terminalia 2010 will feature the works of Susan Hiller, Robert Willm, and Fiamma Montezemulo,
along with works by several local artists that will be featured in their own room at the DuMois
Gallery. With greater support from the American Anthropological Association, opening-night
sponsorship from Stella Artois, and more advance time to promote the event, Ethnographic Terminalia
2010 will be another unique opportunity to exhibit your work. (more…)

The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign is pleased to announce a new online course offering:

ANTH 499 Anthropology of the Dance and Human Movement

taught by Dr. Drid Williams.

ANTH 499: Anthropology of the Dance and Human Movement provides an in-depth introduction to the anthropological study of dance and other human movement systems in cultural contexts.  It is designed especially for students with little or no background in socio-cultural anthropology or the social sciences. The course includes reading the works of major figures in the field, and learning how to study dances, signed languages and ritual events from an anthropological perspective.  Students will also learn about socio-cultural theory and observation, doing fieldwork, movement literacy, problems of subjectivity and objectivity, and personal anthropology. The course allows the student to enroll at any time, and then have 6 months to complete their course. (more…)

Popular Anthropology Magazine seeks submissions from Visual Anthropologists for publication in future issues. Each quarter, Popular Anthropology Magazine features the photography of a visual anthropologist on the cover of the magazine. In addition, a two-page spread on the inside of the magazine is devoted to both the photography and the biography of the visual anthropologist.

Popular Anthropology Magazine is a free online magazine with over 1,400 subscribers on six different continents. Tentative June 2011, we will also be going in print in the continental United States.

Submissions may be sent electronically to:
Dawn C. Stricklin
dcstricklin@popanthro.com

Mailing:
Dawn C. Stricklin, MA
Department of Anthropology
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
1000 Faner Dr., Rm. 3525- MC 4502
Carbondale, IL 62901
Email: dcstricklin@popanthro.com
Web: http://www.popanthro.com

On Saturday afternoon, May 15, 2010 from 2:00-3:30 pm, Dr. Haidy
Geismar will lead a new “SAFE Tour” of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art. SAFE tours provide an “insider’s look” at a museum collection
and focus on artworks and artifacts that have dubious provenance or are
presumed to be illicit.

An anthropologist, Dr. Geismar is an Assistant Professor in the Museum
Studies Program and the Department of Anthropology of New York University.
Her research interests are visual anthropology and material culture; cultural
and intellectual property; digital technologies in relation to understandings of
materiality, museum practices (collection, archiving, preservation and
exhibition) and photography; new economic forms; and the anthropology
of Oceania. She is editor of Material World.

(more…)

Festival of Visual Anthropology ASPEKTY in Poland is pleased to announce opening submission for the 4th edition of festival. Submissions are free and open for every documentary films from any field of ethnographic, anthropological, analytical approach to cultures and societies. The Festival has an audience competition program.

“ASPEKTY” is a yearly anthropological film festival, which aims at exploring various areas of culture. The principle of the festival is to discover and present various relations, phenomena, interactions and mechanisms within cultures. Submitted films must have been completed after year 2005.

Entry Deadlines:
Entries Deadline: August 1, 2010
Films Delivery Deadline: August 31, 2010

For more information and submission forms, rules please visit
http://aspektyfestival.pl/en
Email: festival@aspektyfestival.pl
lukas@aspektyfestival.pl
Festival of Visual Anthropology ASPEKTY
Torun, Poland

The purpose of the Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology is to encourage students to incorporate visual analysis in their study and understanding of social phenomena. The contest is open to undergraduate and graduate students (majoring in any social science). Students must be currently enrolled or have received their degrees no earlier than the end of the term finishing just before the meeting of the International Sociological Association (ISA) at which the prize is to be awarded. Entries for the second round of the contest (prizes to be awarded at the World Congress of Sociology, July 2010) must be received by May 1, 2010. Up to three cash prizes will be awarded, with the winners being chosen by May 15, 2010. The first prize will be $2500 (USD), the second $1500, and the third $500. It is anticipated that the prize will be awarded biennially.

Entries consist of: 1) a social science commentary (up to one page in length, in English) on one of the photos by Rachel Tanur displayed at http://racheltanurmemorialprize.com to be posted on the website; 2) an original photo taken by the entrant and an accompanying social science commentary (up to one page in length, in English), both to be posted at http://racheltanurmemorialprize.com; and 3) a letter (which can be sent via a contact form on the website) from the student’s advisor or other official from the contestant’s department attesting to his/her student status.

For full information and to submit material for the contest, please go to http://racheltanurmemorialprize.com.

The AAA Annual Meeting online submission deadline is April 1, 2010 (5 p.m. EST)!!

Please make sure that everyone in your session (panelists, discussants, chairs, organizers, poster-makers, etc) is registered and has submitted her/his paper/poser title and abstract before this deadline!  This deadline is firm for all types of proposals now: paper/poster sessions, special events (including inno-vents), and workshops.

http://aaanet.org/meetings/Call-for-Papers.cfm

And please remember, if you would like your session to be reviewed by SVA, make sure to select us as the reviewing section.

Thanks,
Jenny Chio and Stephanie Takaragawa
2010 SVA Program Co-Chairs

This roundtable discussion is being organized by the SVA Ethics Committee to continue, deepen, and expand the critical reflections and dialogues on visual ethics. Highlighting this year’s theme of “Circulation”—including “what is at stake in these processes, and for whom; and what their consequences might be”—this session is intended to explore the ethical considerations implicated and involved in the intersections of images and circulation. Key issues raised in previous sessions (the 2007 AAA special event discussions and the 2008 and 2009 roundtables on visual ethics) that can be elaborated on, developed, or added to include: (a) negotiating representational authority; (b) the decontextualization/circulation of images (and the problem of lack of control); (c) presumed vs. actual outcomes of image display; (d) relations with and responsibilities toward research subjects/communities; (e) balancing privacy vs. publicity (depending on subjects’ wishes); (f) the importance of communication with and consent of subjects/communities at every stage of the research process; and (g) the collection and dissemination of visual materials within the context of globally expanding media savvy and presence.

The SVA Ethics Committee thus welcomes any proposals that can serve as focal cases for collaborative discussions of real-world ethical considerations and dilemmas faced by anthropologists (and others) working with, thinking about, and engaged in the circulation of visual data.

Those interested in participating should contact Jonathan S. Marion (jsmarion@gmail.com) as soon as possible, and by March 28th at the latest.

SVA members and others engaged in visual research projects are invited to submit proposals for the annual Visual Research Conference until March 27.  Directions for how to submit proposals and additional information about the conference can be found on the SVA website.  The March 27 deadline is a week extension that still provides time for the Visual Research Conference committee to review proposals before the AAA program deadline of April 1st.

2010 American Anthropological Association Meeting/ Society for Visual Anthropology

*”Perception, Production and Circulation: Sensory Ethnography through Media”*

Session Abstract:
This panel is organized by graduate students at Harvard University’s Sensory
Ethnography Lab in conjunction with the launch of a new academic journal of
sensory ethnography. Selected projects/papers will have the opportunity to
be published in the first edition of the Journal of Sensory Ethnography
(working title).

Through this panel we aim to recognize and problematize the relationship
between theoretical abstraction and material concreteness, to reimagine the
relationship between sensing, knowing, and thinking, and to reexamine the
implications of this for ethnographic media. “Sensory ethnography” holds
promises of engaged scholarship that explores the evocative and
representative, the affective and effective, the feeling and the meaning of
salient features of everyday life. (more…)