Book

Worth having a look at...

A History and Handbook of Photography by John Thomson
first published in 1876 - now newly-designed and typeset


Among the many key topics addressed are:
• The arrangement of a good studio
• Lighting the object to be photographed
• Coating the glass plate with collodion
• Developing, fixing and varnishing the negative
• Preparing the photographic paper for printing
• Toning and pressing the proofs
• The necessity for long practice
• Photography and travel
• How to remedy accidents with negatives and prints
• Colouring photographs
• Apparatus employed for enlarging negative proofs
• Waxed paper and carbon processes
• The collodion process 

Art Event

Collection of the Everyday 2013
An installation by young artists from Central St Martins College of Art and Design and St Marylebone CE School - which is a response to the 'Death: A self-portrait' exhibition

Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 May 2013, 11.00-17.30

Wellcome Collection, London, UK

Film Festival

New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival
London, UK

26.04.2013-05.05.2013

Program

Film

An interesting take on funding an ethnographic film project... See on Kickstarter...

The long journey home



'One man's dream to build a boat... and sail it home. A documentary & online film project along the lost highways of Britain'.

New book

A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
by Mike Brodie

The book documents America's homeless train-jumpers

See also here

Seminar

Centre for Narrative Research - Research Seminar Series

'We would rather be exploited than ignored': Life narratives of intervention in South Tanzania
Robert Ahearne, UEL

16th April 2013, 12noon until 1pm

University of East London, Docklands Campus, East Building, Room EB1.40

History Conference

Unofficial History Conference

15-16 June 2013

Manchester, UK

Including some walking tours...

£15 for a day ticket or £20 for a weekend pass

Photography Conference

Workers and Consumers: The PhotographicIndustry 1860-1950

Two Day Conference
24-25 June 2013

Photographic History Research Centre De Montfort University, Leicester

Opening Keynote Speaker: Professor Steve Edwards

The history of photography has largely been dominated by concerns about aesthetic production and its political framings. Such ‘art historical’ approaches have marginalised the study of the economic base of the medium manifested through a developing photographic industry, its related trades and its mass consumers.  Work is now emerging in this field, scattered across a number of disciplines: history, anthropology and history of science in particular. While there has been extensive research on both the politics and the affective qualities of popular photography, family albums, for instance, the missing component in the analysis is often a detailed and empirically informed understanding of the social and economic conditions of product development, labour forces, marketing and consumer demand. This two-day conference aims to bring together a critical mass of research in this area, to explore the state of play in this overlooked but crucial aspect of history of photography, and to suggest new directions for research in the economic, business and industrial history of photography. The conference explores the period 1860-1950: from the rise of a clearly defined photographic industry, which had a profound effect on the practices and thus social functions of photography, to the expansion of mass colour technologies.

Online registration

Summer School

Manchester Methods Summer School

June 17-21 2013

University of Manchester

The summer school will offer a range of specialised courses covering a variety of topics that are relevant to postgraduate research in humanities and social sciences

Courses currently on offer are:
- Introduction to social network analysis using UCINET and Netdraw
- Advanced methods for social network analysis
- Romani Studies

Fees for a single course (28 hours of face-to-face teaching over 5 days, and lunch on 3 days):
- external students: £500
- other external attendees: £800
- local students: £100

New Book

Sounds promising...

Sociology of the Visual Sphere

edited b Regev Nathansohn and Dennis Zuev

Published: 2013 | ISBN: 9780415807005

Book description:

This collection of original articles deals with two intertwined general questions: what is the visual sphere, and what are the means by which we can study it sociologically? These questions serve as the logic for dividing the book into two sections, the first ("Visualizing the Social, Sociologizing the Visual") focuses on the meanings of the visual sphere, and the second ("New Methodologies for Sociological Investigations of the Visual") explores various sociological research methods to getting a better understanding of the visual sphere. We approach the visual sphere sociologically because we regard it as one of the layers of the social world. It is where humans produce, use, and engage with the visual in their creation and interpretation of meanings. Under the two large inquiries into the "what" and the "how" of the sociology of the visual sphere, a subset of more focused questions is being posed: what social processes and hierarchies make up the visual sphere? How various domains of visual politics and visuality are related (or being presented as such)? What are the relations between sites and sights in the visual research? What techniques help the visual researcher to increase sensorial awareness of the research site? How do imaginaries of competing political agents interact in different global contexts and create unique, locally-specific visual spheres? What constitutes competing interpretations of visual signs? The dwelling on these questions is shared in this collection by eleven scholars from eight countries who present their research experience from a variety of contexts and sites, utilizing a range of sociological theories, from semiotics to post-structuralism.

Conference

Early bird registration

Screening the Future Conference

May 7-8 2013

Tate Modern, London, UK

Deadline: 15th of April 2013

Australian Anthropological Society

Call for panel proposals

Annual Conference of the Australian Anthropological Society
The Human in the World, the World in the Human

Between the 6th and 8th November 2013

Australian National University (Canberra)

Deadline Friday 3rd of May 2013

Video

Public ethnography
Video explaining the aims and objectives of ethnography

Call for Films

(1.)

Finnish Anthropology Society 2013
Culture, creativity and performativity

16-17th of May 2013, University of Tampere, Finland

Wanted: Documentaries of a broad ethnographic persuasion that address the potential of cinema to address the creativity and performance in everyday life to be part of a special screening

Deadline for Submissions is April 11, 2013



(2.)

Jean Rouch International Film Festival

15th of April 2013

Films must have been completed after 1st January 2012



(3.)

FIDOCS 2013 - International Documentary Film Festival of Santiago

between June 24th and 30th June 2013

Wanted: Films dealing with the theoretical, ethical and aesthetical questions of representation and subjectivity locating itself on the borders in which documentary films collide with fiction, ethnographic films, video art and experimental pieces

Three sections
- Chilean competition
- Latin American competition
- International short film competition 'Monsieur Guillaume'

Deadline for submissions: 5th of April 2013

Lecture

Stories and Embodied Memories in Dementia

Lars-Christer Hyden
Linkoeping University, Sweden & Center for Dementia Research

A MODE & NOVELLA collaboration

16th April 2013, 2-3pm

London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald Street, London WC1N 3QS

Booking required

Call for Films

33rd NAFA International Film Festival

9-12 October 2013

Bilbao, Basque Country

Call for ethnographic and documentary films
Entry form

OHS/IHR Seminar

Oral History, Subjectivity and Gender: Some reflections on theory and practice

Penny Summerfield (University of Manchester)

Thursday 7th of March 2013, 6pm

Venue: Torrington Room, Senate House, South Block, 1st Floor, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Free, no advanced booking required

Talk

Women's lives, well-being and community: arts based biographical methods

Talk by Professor Maggie O'Neill on collaborative research undertaken with women seeking asylum in the North East of England and the use of walking methodology located within a broader trajectory of biographical and participatory research

6th of March 2013, 12.30-2pm

Birkbeck Institute for social Research
Room B02, Main Building

Free entry

Symposium Call

The future of the multi-ethnic city

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 12noon-5pm

University of Manchester
Room 3.214, University Place

Participants are invited to present empirical work on multi-ethnic cities (race, ethnicity and the urban)
PhD students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged o apply

Deadline for abstracts: 4 March 2013

Guest lecture: Caroline Knowles (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Art Event

Migratory Dreams 

An exhibition that invites to listen to eight dreams that were shared by Colombians living in London and Colombians living in Bogota, through a telematic improvisatory sonic performance

Saturday the 2nd of March 2013 from 12noon until 4pm

Furtherfield Gallery, London

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