Everyday Click

World Press Photo

2012-02-10T11:30:00.000-08:00

The winner 2011: Samuel Aranda with an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen.

All images can be seen here.

Narratives

2012-02-03T01:22:00.000-08:00

Journal: Narrative Works

Current Issue: Issues, Investigations and Interventions
Volume 1, Issue 2, Fall 2011

I especially like the article entitled 'The Bonds and Burdens of Family Life: Using Narrative Analysis to Understand Difficult Relationships' by Breheny & Stephens that attempts to understand difficult family relationships with and through narrative analysis

Photography Tour

2012-02-03T01:01:00.000-08:00

The Changing Face of London
Photographic walking tour exploring how to effectively photograph the City

led by Grant Smith, architectural photographer

Saturday 25.02.2012, 1pm (3 hours)

Departure: City of London Information Centre, St Paul's Churchyard, EC4M 8BX

Cost: £22.50
Booking required

Must bring own camera

LSE Photo Prize

2012-02-01T04:57:00.000-08:00

Also later this month...

LSE Photo Prize Exhbition 2012
This year's photo prize takes on the theme of 'Overcoming Hurdles'

27.02-13.04.2012
Monday- Friday, 10am-8pm

Atrium Gallery, Old Building

Lucian Freud Portraits

2012-02-01T04:45:00.000-08:00

Opening later this month...

Lucian Freud Portraits

09.02.-27.05.2012
Opening: 09.02.2012

National Portrait Gallery

Tickets: £14 (concessions £13/£12) - advanced booking is recommended

Narrative Writing

2012-01-20T17:25:00.000-08:00

One Day Symposium

Writing Narratives: Reflections and Diffractons

02.03.2012, 09.30am - 05.00pm

The British Library London, UK

Full fee £45, Students 25

The elderly and technology

2012-01-20T17:03:00.000-08:00

Not directly to the visual (but may be relevant in terms of picture/ video taking practices)...

ESRC Seminar on older people and technological inclusion: 'Understanding usability'

17.02.2012, 10.30-16.00

The Open University, UK

MODE

2012-01-20T16:56:00.000-08:00

MODE
Multimodal methodologies for social researchers

Seminars

23.02.2012: Researching online and mobile interaction and environments: Understanding space, place and time

14.03.2012: An introduction to research embodiment in digital learning environments

14.05.2012: Working across disciplinary boundaries, mixing multimodal research methods, and integrating digital resources

13.06.2012: Multimodal transcription

Training Days

16.02.2012: An introduction to multimodal methods for researching digital data

Data Workshops

10.02.2012: Using video to investigate workplace learning

20.03.2012: Digital technologies, embodiment and science learning

Conference

22-24.08.2012: 6th International Conference on Multimodality (6-ICOM)

Registration

Narrative research

2012-01-20T16:40:00.000-08:00

Free seminar

What is Narrative? A TCRU/NOVELLA special seminar

Discussion about different definitions of the term and possible ways to analyze and use narratives in research projects.

When: 28.02.2012, 1-3pm
Where: The Library, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, 27/28 Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AA

The seminar is free, but booking is required.

Symposium

2011-12-15T08:10:00.000-08:00

3rd Preservation of Complex Objects Symposium

Topic: Preservation of video games and virtual worlds

26-27 2011

The Novotel Hotel, Cardiff, UK

Free + £10 donation for refreshments

Stimulus Respond

2011-12-15T06:03:00.000-08:00

A magazine I always love reading... And looking at...

New issue

Stimulus respond, Chaos

Call for papers

2011-12-06T03:16:00.001-08:00

Displaced Childhoods
Oral history and traumatic experience

Oral History Society Annual Conference 2012
held in association with the Research Centre for Evacuee and War Child Studies, University of Reading

July 13-14 2012

Venue: University of Reading, Berkshire

Deadline for submissions: 31.12.2011

Coming up 2012...

2011-12-06T03:04:00.001-08:00

Queen Elizabeth II
by Cecil Beaton
A Diamond Jubilee Celebration

An exhibition of portraits of Her Majesty

08.02.2012-22.04.2012

Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, London

Accompanying workshops:

Portrait Photography
31.01.12, 06.30-09.00pm
Digital workshop exploring the skills and techniques involved in capturing people in photographs
Digital Studio, Sackler Centre

Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton
07.03.12, 01.00pm
Lunchtime Lecture
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre
Free entry

Hugo Burnard, Royal Photographer
09.03.12, 07.00-08.00pm
Evening talk
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre

Photography and Photographers in Britain 1839-2012
17.04.12, 06.30
Course investigating the work of British photographers from the nineteenth century to the present
Seminar Room Three

Photo Exhibition

2011-12-06T02:59:00.001-08:00

Returning Photographs to Ladakh, North India

by Sophie Day and Ricardo Leizaola
from the Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London

Opening: Thursday 08.12.2011, 05.00pm

Exhibition: 08.12-16.12.2011
Mon-Sat 08.00am-09.00pm

New Academic Building, Lower Ground, goldsmiths, University of London

Entrance free

Call for Ethnographic and Documentary Films

2011-12-06T02:56:00.001-08:00

Ethnocineca 2012

22.05-25.05.2012

Vienna

Deadline for submissions: 15.01.2012

Film Festival

2011-12-05T06:45:00.001-08:00

Occupy Anthropology!
6th International Festival of Anthropology Film

April 08-09 2012

Organized by The Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC in collaboration with the Museum of Anthropology and the University of Neighbourhoods Association

Submissions possible until 20.01.2012

Book Launch

2011-11-29T04:21:00.001-08:00

For those interested in narrative methods...

Narratives from the Nursery: Negotiating professional identities in early childhood
by Jayne Osgood (Reader in Education)

Monday 05.12.2011, 5-7pm

London Metropolitan University, Tower Building, Room T1-20

iPhone App

2011-11-18T01:40:00.001-08:00

On the 14th of November 2011, ZSL London Zoo launched an Instant Wild iPhone app.

According to ZSL London Zoo, the app should revolutionize the way conservationists monitor wildlife. Motion sensitive cameras have already been set up in Kenya, Sir Lanka and Mongolia. The images triggered by animals walking past are sent straight to the app. This allows users both to get a rare glimpse into the life of lions, elephants and wild dogs, but also to identify animals captured on film instantly. By making the app public, ZSL London Zoo conservationists hope to analyze data much faster than before as everyone can assist with wildlife identification.

The app is free and can be downloaded from the App Store. The project has also a website with interesting information and the newest images captured.

Everyday Objects

2011-11-08T04:12:00.000-08:00

Hidden Heroes - The Genius of Everyday Things

Exhibition at the Science Museum, London giving the spotlight to the miniature marvels we couldn't live without.

09.11.11-05.06.12

Cost: £6, Concessions £3.50, Family small £11, Family big £16

More information about the individual objects can be found on the Hidden Heroes website.

Hands-on

2011-11-08T04:05:00.000-08:00

For people who want to be creative... Or just enjoy interactive exhibitions...

Power of Making

presented by
V&A and Crafts Council

06.09.2011-02.01.2012
V&A

Free entry.

There is also a symposium that picks up the exhibition theme:

The Power of Making Symposium
09.12.2011
10.30am-5pm
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre

Topology

2011-11-08T03:56:00.000-08:00

Two interesting events... By the newly formed Topology Research Unit (TRU)

EVENT 1

15.11.2011, 5pm-6.30pm

Topology: A hands-on introduction
Inaugural Workshop
Led by Prof Brian Rotman

314, New Academic Building
Goldsmiths, University of London

Free event open to all.

EVENT 2

Embodying Transformation

19.11.11 & 20.11.11

Performance times:
19.11.11, 2pm-3pm
19.11.11, 4pm-5pm
19.11.11, 7pm-8pm
20.11.11, 2pm-3pm
20.11.11, 5pm-6pm

Tate Modern, Level 7, East Room

£9 (£7 concessions).

Humanities

2011-11-08T03:42:00.000-08:00

Tenth International Conference on new Directions in the Humanities

14-17 June 2012

Centre Mont-Royal
Montreal, Canada

Call for papers, workshops/ interactive sessions, roundtable discussions and jointly presented colloquiums.

Themes:
1: Meaning and Communication
2: Frames of Reference for the Humanities
3: Agendas for the Humanities
4: The Humanities in Practice

Submission deadline: 10.11.2011

Cineduaction

2011-11-07T05:37:00.000-08:00

Cineducation invites people to share their view about what is happening in Chile and around the world regarding education.

Wanted: Videos between 1 and 4 minutes.

In December 2011, the website organizers (Overlap) will allow anyone to make a film by selecting, sorting and cutting the shared videos - to not only challenge not the visual material submitted, but also the idea of a unique and vertical editor.

Graduate Seminar in Narrative

2011-11-07T05:20:00.000-08:00

Narratives of Mothers Living with HIV
Denise Proudfoot, Dublin City University/ Bath University

08.11.2011
5pm-6.30pm

The Library, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of education, University of London
27-8 Woburn Place, London WC1H 0AA

presented by

The Centre for Narrative Research
University of East London
and
NOVELLA ESRC Research Node
Institute of Education and UEL

Darwin's Nightmare

2011-11-07T04:59:00.000-08:00

A film worth seeing...

Darwin's Nightmare
by Hubert Sauper

Synopsis

Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. However, the new fish multiplied so fast, that its white fillets are today exported all around the world. Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for their southbound cargo… Kalashnikovs and ammunitions for the uncounted wars in the dark center of the continent.
This booming multinational industry of fish and weapons has created an ungodly globalized alliance on the shores of the world’s biggest tropical lake: an army of local fishermen, World bank agents, homeless children, African ministers, EU-commissioners, Tanzanian prostitutes and Russian pilots.

Quote from the film:
'Children in Angola receive weapons on Christmas Day, European children receive grapes'.

Call for Papers

2011-11-02T03:52:00.000-07:00

22nd International Screen Studies Conference
organised by Screen journal

Invited are papers on any topic in screen studies.

'Other cinemas' will be the subject of the plenaries and will form a strand throughout the conference.
Possible themes/ topics:
- Amateur films
- Educational cinema
- Industrial films
- Films produced for and distributed via different web platforms
- Experimental or avant-garde work
- Sponsored films

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Charles Aciand, Concordia University, Editor of Useful Cinema
Elizabeth Lebas, Middlesex University, Author of Forgotten Futures

Deadline for submissions: 13.01.2012

Coming soon

2011-10-28T02:56:00.000-07:00

Tyler Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

10.11.11-12.02.12

National Portrait Gallery

Admision: £2 (free for gallery supporters)

Shortlisted photographers

Festival

2011-10-19T07:11:00.000-07:00

ESRC Festival of Social Science

29.10.11 - 05.11.11

Festival events across the UK giving insight into some of the country's leading social science research.

A list of the festival events can be found here - grouped according to audience, region or date.

Film screening and discussion

2011-10-19T07:03:00.000-07:00

Arts and mental health: Inclusion and exclusion

28.10.11, 2-4pm followed by refreshments

Podium Lecture Theatre, London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle
London, UK

Call for ethnographic papers

2011-10-18T03:00:00.000-07:00

Conference CFP
Public Ethnography: Connecting New Genres, New Media, New Audiences

June 1-2 2012

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Keynote presenters
Paul Stroller (Anthropology, West Chester University)
Norman K. Denzin (Communication, University of Illinois)

Deadline for submissions (title and short abstract): 08.11.11 (on the website 15.11.11)

Antropo

2011-10-18T02:51:00.000-07:00

International film festival (of not only students movies with anthropological themes)

Antropo

27.01.12-28.01.12

Dobeska Theatre, Prague

Movies can be send until 30.11.11

Battle of ideas

2011-10-17T16:28:00.000-07:00

Battle of ideas festival

October 29&30 2011

Royal College of Art

During the course of the weekend over 2000 people will be participating in 75 different debates.

This year's festival programme includes strands of debate entitled:
- Battle of the world
- Battle for morality
- Food Fight
- Society Wars
- Battle for our brains
- Reassessing politics and thought-provoking speakers

Fees:
Students aged 16-18 are able to attend a day of the festival for free (the second day costing only £10)
There are also a limited number of half price student champion tickets, allowing older students full access to the festival for just £27.50

Photo Competition

2011-10-03T07:05:00.000-07:00

COMPAS Photo Competition 2011
Traces of Belonging

COMPAS is looking for images that reflect the theme 'Traces of Belonging' - of special interested are images with a historical or social connotation that visually convey what it means to settle in a new place

Prizes: £300 and £150 for winning entries and £50 for 8 runners-up

Open to residents of the UK and Ireland aged 16 and over

Submission deadline: 13.10.2011

Film Preview

2011-10-03T01:25:00.000-07:00

UK Preview of the film

Saidi's Song
written and directed by Chike Kani Omo and produced by Ndu Anike

12.10.2011, 5.30pm
New Academic Building Cinema, Goldmiths, University of London

The event is free and forms part of the AHRC funded 'Beyond the Linear Narrative' project

New website and call for papers

2011-10-03T00:52:00.000-07:00

A new website is now online: Early Modern Memory

The site brings together news, calls and bibliographies for students/ scholars who work on memory practices in the early modern period.

On the website, there is also a call for papers for a conference related to the topic.

Memory before Modernity: Memory Cultures in Early Modern Europe
20-22 June 2012
Leiden University, The Netherlands

Deadline for proposals: 01.11.2011

Call for Films

2011-10-03T00:41:00.000-07:00

11th Goettingen International Ethnographic Film Festival

The film festival promotes documentary cinema with a special emphasis on new films, video or interactive media.

The film festival is open to all filmmakers, but especially those from social sciences/ humanities.
The festival specially supports student films.

09-13 May 2012

Submission deadline: 15.12.2011

Travel Photography

2011-09-30T04:44:00.000-07:00

Travel Photographer of the Year

Open to photographers all over the world, expert or amateur, young or old, experienced or not.

Winning images will be exhibited Royal Geographical Society's Kensington gallery.

Entry categories
- Cultures and Traditions
- Natural Elements
- Exotic
- Spirit of Adventure

- One shot, First shot
- New talent
- Young Travel Photographer of the Year
- Travel photographer of the year

Entry Fees:
- Portfolio £15
- New Talent £20
- One Shot £10
- First Shot £10
- Young TPOTY free

Seminar

2011-09-27T07:42:00.000-07:00

Exploring the use of visual media in the communication of research findings

Cardiff University

09.11.2011, 10.30am-04.30pm

Attendance: £15 (£10 for registered postgraduate students)
Places are limited

Narratives and Visual Images

2011-09-27T07:38:00.000-07:00

Call for papers for multi-session workshop

Representing the Irrepresentabe: Narratives and Visual Images of Slavery, Forced Labour and Genocide

127th American Historical Association Meeting
New Orleans
January 3-6 2013

Deadline for proposals: 01.02.2012

Proposals must contain:
- paper's title
- abstract
- biographical paragraph
- email address
- audiovisual needs

Anthropology

2011-09-27T07:25:00.000-07:00

Anthropology in the World Conference

8-10.06.2012

British Museum. Clore Centre, London

Call for panels now open (closing date: 28.10.2011)

The aim of the conference is to explore the manifold ways in which anthropology in its widest sense has influential outside academia

Studies in Temporal Urbanism

2011-09-26T06:43:00.000-07:00

Just published...

My chapter entitled 'Body, Space and Maps' in the book 'Studies in Temporal Urbanism: The urban Tick Experiment' edited by Fabian Neuhaus

The book is also available on Amazon.

Training event

2011-09-20T07:27:00.000-07:00

Video-Making in Collaborative Research

Workshop for those who are beginning or have just started visual research

Day 1: 07.10.11
Follow up Day: 24.11.11

Organised by The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM)
Delivered by Professor Rob Walker form the University of East Anglia

Festival

2011-09-20T07:23:00.000-07:00

ESRC Festival of Social Science

A festival celebrating the social sciences

29.10-05.11.2011

Various events across the UK and with 28 events taking place in London

Narrative Research

2011-09-20T07:08:00.000-07:00

Centre for Narrative Research

Narrative Research at UEL: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

21.09.2011, 2-4pm

Docklands Campus, East Building, Room EB G.11

Speakers:
Dave Harper, Ian Tucker, Darren Ellis, Susannah Radstone, Jo Finch, Abioloa Ogunsola, Giorgia Dona

Followed by open discussion and drinks reception

New Issue

2011-09-20T06:59:00.000-07:00

Visual Communication

Special Issue: The Visual Essay

1. August 2011, Vol. 10, No. 3

Film Screening

2011-09-12T04:36:00.000-07:00

Final Film Screening of the MA Visual Anthropology students at Goldsmiths, University of London

16.09.2011, 10am-6pm

Horse Hospital (Next Russell Square Tube Station), London

All welcome, free entry

Conference call

2011-09-12T04:03:00.000-07:00

Public Ethnography: Connecting New Genres, New Media, New Audiences

June 1-2 2012

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Abstracts (150 words including title, five keywords and short bio(s) of the presenter(s))wanted from individuals and groups (panels) that address and reflect upon ethnographic research.

Questions discussed:

How can ethnographers make their voices better heard? How can ethnographic research become more popular? How can different ethnographic genres and new and traditional communication media facilitate the popularization of ethnographic research?

Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2011
Registration deadline: 15.04.2012

A peer-reviewed special issue on the theme of the conference will be developed.

Conference

2011-09-06T16:08:00.000-07:00

Cultures of Surveillance: An Interdisciplinary Conference

29.09., 30.09 and 01.10 2011

University of London (UCL)
The Film Studies Space: The Centre for the Cultural History of the Moving Image
De Young Lecture Theatre and Anatomy Theatre
Medical Sciences and Anatomy Building UCL

Keynote lectures by Professor Tom Gunning, Northwestern University and Professor Simon Cole, University of California, Irvine

Fees:
Conference Attendance £30 (any part of Friday and Saturday with Thursday included)
Conference Attendance £20 (one day of Friday or Saturday)
Conference Attendance £15 (students)
Fee waivers available for a limited number of pre-registered UCL students

Soundscapes

2011-09-06T15:45:00.000-07:00

Woices - free localized audio-guides

An interesting website for those interested in sound. What do people tell and how?

For example: You can walk along the Thames, learn something about Big Ben and think about your first day at school.

Sociology and the visual

2011-08-31T01:57:00.001-07:00

An interesting article by Charlotte Bates, a former PhD candidate at Goldsmiths...

Experimenting with Sociology: A view from the Outlook Tower

in Sociological Research online

Photoboming

2011-08-31T01:32:00.000-07:00

In today's Metro...

Photoboming: New craze involves hijacking photos by pulling silly faces

An activity that is not only fun, but also questions the 'norms' and 'standards' involved in picture taking. What is (or makes) a beautiful photo?

More examples... Although not all of the images posted are photoboming images...

Definition of the term according to the Urban Dictionary:

'Photobomb: An otherwise normal photo that has been ruined or spoiled by someone who was not supposed to be in the photograph'

http://photo-bombers.com/

http://www.photobombing.net/

http://www.photobomb.net/

Do you have your own images?!?

Sound

2011-08-26T08:22:00.000-07:00

White Sound: An urban Seascape

by Bill Fontana

22.09.11-16.10.11

Wellcome Collection, London, UK

Animation

2011-08-26T08:03:00.000-07:00

IdeasTap: Short Animation Competition Awards

08.09.11

Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK

The London International Animation Festival 2011

Friday 26.08.11 until Sunday 04.09.11

Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK

Space

2011-08-26T07:05:00.000-07:00

Not directly related to the visual... Although there is also a photography competition.

OpenHouseLondon

17-18. September 2011

Free admission to over 750 buildings

Call for submissions

2011-08-25T06:34:00.000-07:00

Eight International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

Theme: Qualitative Inquiry as a Global Endeavor

Sub-topics: The politics of advocacy, value-free inquiry, partisanship, bias, the politics of evidence, alternatives to evidence-based models, multiple and mixed-methods, public policy discourse, indigenous research ethics, decolonizing inquiry

May 16-19 2012

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Submission: Accepted are papers, posters and fully formed panels

Call for submissions

2011-08-23T08:08:00.000-07:00

DeSForM 2012: Meaning. Matter. Making

7th International Workshop on the Design & Semantics of From & Movment

18-20. April 2012

Call: Papers, performances and demonstrations

Welcome: Practice-led researchers working on the conference themes

(1) Sensory Engagements (the body), (2) The Machinic Processes (the tool), (3) Reciprocal Systems (the environment)

Authors guidelines

Deadline for abstracts: 12.09.2011

Symposium

2011-08-23T08:03:00.000-07:00

Preservation of complex objects symposia (POCOS)

Topic: Preservation of software art

11-12.10.2011

The Lighthouse, Glasgow, UK

Organised by the Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute at the University of Glasgow, UK

Online registr ation

Symposium fee: £10 donation for refreshments, payable at the event)

Photographing famine

2011-08-22T07:27:00.000-07:00

Discussion with David Campbell and Jon Levy about famine, visual representations and aesthetics...

"Aesthetics have no place in photographing famine" webinar with David Campbell and Jon Levy from OPEN-i (Open Photojournalism Edu on Vimeo.

UK Riots

2011-08-22T01:01:00.000-07:00

Once the UK riots are past and many articles about the reasons for such a 'public disorder' have been written, I thought it might be worth to publish a couple of links and images related to the events that may provoke new thoughts and discussions...

First, I would like to share a link to the BBC website that summaries and visualizes the events so far. Available is also a list of current magistrate cases and convictions.

Second, I would like to mention an article written by Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen. The piece entitled 'Cameron's broken windows' gives an excellent overview and critical analysis of the situation in the UK from an outsider perspective.

Third, I would like to point out an article that addresses the issue of language in connection to the current events - especially as politicians and journalists seem still unclear about how to name those involved in the riots.

And last but not least, I would like to turn my attention to the current discussion regarding the influence and role different social media played in the riots.

Just recently, the Home Office called the biggest social networks for a meeting to discuss the riots (see here). In this context, it seems especially interesting that the government is considering to limit access to services like Twitter, Facebook and Blackberry Messenger in 'times of social unrest' (see here).

A short and critical piece on the influence of social media on the riots can be found here.

Interesting in this context is that not only 'the rioters' use Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry Messenger, but also the Police. Metropolitan Police, for example, has its own photostream on flickr where it publishes images (and also videos) of people involved in the riots.

However, not only officials 'encourage' the public to assist with identification of 'suspects' (under the motto name and shame), but also local residents have set up their own pages. An example can be found here.

Another form of public engagement with the events were the 'clean ups' organized by local residents in support of their community, but also the 'note walls'. An example of such a public discussion wall is the 'Peckham's peace wall' (for another interactive version click here).

Overall, it could be said that the riots have sparked various discussions revolving around youth, inequality, social media and responsibility. All this discussion seem however to overlook one thing: the feelings of those involved and those affected. It might be worth asking them what they think about the events - not just with the aim to create a headline for tomorrow's newspaper, but with an honest intention to listen and understand.

Plymouth

2011-08-22T00:54:00.000-07:00

Event programme to show current British contemporary art...

British Art Show 7

Displays from 17.09.11 until 04.12.11

Across 5 venues including Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, the Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth Arts Centre and the Plymouth College of Art Gallery

The Visual and Health

2011-08-22T00:48:00.000-07:00

One day symposium that explores the relationship between images, public and health...

Images, Publics and Health: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

13.09.2011

10.30-18.00

Room K2.31, King's Building, Kings College London, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS

The event is free and open to all. Registration needed.

Film Screening

2011-08-21T13:40:00.000-07:00

This seems a very interesting film and topic...

Coexist

The film explores stories of Rwandan genocide survivors as they are made to try to reconcile with perpetrators being released back into their communities from prison

14.09.2011

06.30-08.30pm

Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE, London

After the film: Panel discussion

Panellists: David Russell, Dr. Puma Sen

Chair: Adam Mazo

The event is free and open to all. Entry is on a first come first served basis.

Call for articles

2011-08-05T00:19:00.000-07:00

Working title: Dancing with shadows: Explorations in invisibility

Discussing/ questioning invisibility as a theoretical concept

Prospective authors are also asked to consider a present theoretical model of invisibility

Proposals should consist of about 500 to 1000 words (final papers: 4000 to 6000 words)

Initial proposals due: October 15, 2011

Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2011

Final chapters drafts due: March 30, 2012

Editor: Ravindra N. Mohabeer

Media Studies, Vancouver Island University

Self-Portrait

2011-08-02T01:06:00.000-07:00

An interesting art project working with self portraits (in a very literal sense)...

Esse Quam Videri - Muslim Self Port raits

by Todd Drake

Self-portraits (photographs, collaged images, and self-drawn portraits) made by muslims in North Carolina and Manama, Bahrain - complemented with short essays (in some cases auido recordings and additional information) to add context.

According to the website, the goal of the art project to draw a richer portrait of the Muslim community and build bridges between Muslims and non-Muslims.

There is the possibility to participate in the project. First, by leaving a comment on the website. Second, by 'requesting' a free exhibition of some of the portraits. And third, by submitting a self-portrait and/ or an essay.

Workshop

2011-08-01T01:11:00.000-07:00

Introduction to Narrative Research

organised by Thomas Coram Research Unit and Centre for Narrative Research, Institute of Education and University of East London

12. September 2011

Thomas Coram Research Institute, UK

Fees: £30, for UK registered postgraduate students, £60 for staff at UK academic institutions, ESRC funded researchers and registered charity organisations, £220 for all other participants

Application for scholarship possible

Capturing sound and image

2011-07-27T09:18:00.001-07:00

An interesting attempt to capture both - images and sound - walking interview

Sound Recording Tutorial from Wildlife Sound Recordist John Acorn

by Merle Patchett

Sound/Video Tutorial from merle patchett on Vimeo.

Research

2011-07-27T09:00:00.000-07:00

Trends in Photography Special Collections Management

2011 Edition

by Primary Research Group

The report presents profiles of nine major photography special collections from academic, public and special libraries, government agencies and private enterprise.

Free online table of contents/ excerpt

Print: $80

PDF: $80

Visual Methods

2011-07-25T14:58:00.000-07:00

2nd International Visual Methods Conference

The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

13-15 September 2011

Programme details

Registration, Students £150, Non-students £200

Call for films

2011-07-25T13:16:00.000-07:00

Finnish Anthropological Society (FAS) Conference 2011: Corporal Cinema

Dynamic Anthropology: Tensions between Theory and Practice

University of Helsinki

October 5-7, 2011

Deadline for Submissions: 20.08.2011

Cheeky monkey

2011-07-25T13:02:00.000-07:00

Furry self-portraits...

More about the photographer (crested black macaque monkey) and the camera owner (David Slater) can be read here and here.

New Book

2011-07-25T12:49:00.000-07:00

A must read for all visual researchers...

The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods

by Eric Margolis and Luc Pauwels (eds)

2011, Sage Publications

The book contains 7 main sections:

- Framing the field of visual research

- Producing visual data and insight

- Participatory and subject-centered approaches

- Analytical frameworks and approaches

- Visualization technologies and practices

- Moving beyond the visual

- Options and issues for using and presenting visual research

Detailed table of contents

Book preview

Sociology

2011-07-25T12:37:00.000-07:00

Second ISA Forum of Sociology

Social justice and democratization

Main theme: Visual activism and social justice

Proposed sessions:

- Icons, models and drama queen (s): A comparative analysis of the 'burqa' in European and North American political visual cultures

- New media, videos and cyber-activism on social and environmental issues

- Culture and visual forms of power: Experiencing contemporary spaces of resistance

- Civic media and creative youth activism in the Middle East

- Cross-examining visuals in the criminal justice system

- Critiquing participatory video: Experiences from around the world

- Visual activism: The (street) art of making visible alternative ways of seeing the world

- Visual sociology as/ of activism for social justice

- Teaching visual methods, learning to become a visual sociologist

- Visual representation of injustice and exclusion

1-4. August 2012

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Deadline for abstracts: 15.12.2011

Social Work

2011-07-25T11:55:00.000-07:00

2nd European Conference for Social Work Research

22-24th March 2012

Basel, Switzerland

Call for Papers, Submission deadline 09th September 2011

Seminar

2011-07-13T04:47:00.000-07:00

Exploring the Use of Visual Media in the Communication of Research Findings

Wednesday 09.11.2011

Cardiff University

Fee:

Registered Postgraduate Students £10

Staff at any UK Higher Education Institution £15

ESRC Funded Researcher £15

Other £30

Event at Goldsmiths

2011-07-13T04:44:00.000-07:00

Goldsmiths Screen Documentary 2011

Final Show

14-16 July 2011

New Academic Building

Goldsmiths, University of London

Upcoming Students

2011-07-13T04:40:00.000-07:00

A good website to search for courses in Visual Anthropology (internationally)...

Visual Anthropology Directory

by the Society of Visual Anthropology

Key Event 2011

2011-07-08T05:57:00.000-07:00

Second International Visual Methods Conference

The Open University, Milton Keynes

13-15. September 2011

Keynote speakers

Carey Jewitt

Ludmilla Jordanova

Katerina Cizek

The detailed programme can be found here.

Registration - Student conference fee £150/ full price £200

Call for abstracts

2011-06-22T07:39:00.000-07:00

ENQUIRE Conference

Identity research: Past, present and future

6th and 7th September 2011

School of Sociology and Social Policy

University of Nottingham

Abstracts: Submit abstracts of no more than 300 words by Monday 11th July 2011, 9am

Registration: Register before 22nd July and claim your early bird discount (only £45 for two days including lunches)

Call for papers

2011-06-22T06:51:00.000-07:00

2nd International Conference on the Image

26-27 September 2011

Kursaal Congress Palace, San Sebastian, Spain

Wanted are presentation proposals for the following session options

- 30 minute paper

- 60 minute workshop

- jointly presented 90-minute colloquium

- virtual session

Portrait Award

2011-06-20T03:29:00.000-07:00

Now open

BP Portrait Award 2001

16 June - 18 September 2011

Open 10am-6pm (Thursdays and Fridays until 9pm)

National Portrait Gallery, London

Admission free

World War II Photos

2011-06-20T01:31:00.000-07:00

The Blog 'The ATLANTIC' publishes a series of photo essays on the World War II (World war II in Photos by Alan Taylor).

The series of entries will last from June 19 until October 30 2011, running every Sunday morning for 20 weeks.

Video

2011-05-27T04:27:00.000-07:00

Family outings from a child's perspective...

A 'funny' video about a family visiting Tate Britain and Tate Modern.

Film Festival Call

2011-05-27T04:20:00.000-07:00

Regard Blue - 7th Edition

Festival for ethnographic student film and media

September 30th - October 2nd, 2011

Voelkerkundemuseum of the Universitaet Zuerich, Switzerland

Student producers of audi-visual media from all over the world are invited to submit their projects

Submission deadline: June 17th, 2011

Call for Entries

2011-05-27T02:47:00.000-07:00

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011

Open to everyone over 18

Closing date 07.07.2011

First prize £12.000

Press Photographs

2011-05-27T02:37:00.000-07:00

What a photo can reveal...

A photograph taken during Barack Obama's state visit to the UK - showing US First Lady Michelle Obama and Mr Cameron's wife Samantha in the privat kitchen/ living room at Downing Street.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13547142

Call for Entries

2011-05-26T07:04:00.000-07:00

Framing the City

a juried photography competition accompanying a major international conference hosted by CRESC at the Royal Norther College of Music in Manchester

First and second prizes will be awarded to those photographs judged to best capture the conference theme: Framing the City

There is a limit of 3 entries per person, but prizes will be awarded to single photographs, not to a collection of work

Deadline for entries: 30 June 2011

Journal Article

2011-05-26T06:52:00.000-07:00

For those working with video...

An interesting article about the use of video within social science research...

Uses of video in social science research: A brief history

International Journal of Social Research Methodology

Volume 14, Issue 3, 2011, pages 179-189

Portait Award

2011-05-26T06:36:00.000-07:00

From 16 June 2011 until 18 September 2011

BP Portrait Award

The winners will be announced at an Award Ceremony on June 14 2011.

The shortlisted portraits can be seen here

Admission free

Exhibition tour: 23.06.2011, 7.30pm

Photo Exhibition

2011-05-26T06:24:00.000-07:00

A Story behind every picture

Wellcome Image Awards 2011

The exhibitions is open until the 10 July 2011 (the winners were announced on 23 February 2011)

Animations

2011-05-26T06:19:00.000-07:00

Call for Submissions

Animate OPEN: Digitalis

Animate Project is looking for works that explore, subvert or confound our expectations of art the 'digital'

Open for UK-based artists, animators and filmmakers

Cash prizes

Deadline for submissions: 10am Monday 20 June 2011

Seminar

2011-05-24T08:01:00.000-07:00

Using Digital Technologies in the Generation of Data

The Families and Social Capital Research Group, London South Bank University

21st June 2011

10am-4pm

The event is free, but places are limited

Conference

2011-05-16T05:46:00.000-07:00

Cyfrwng 2011: International Conference on Media in Small Nations

International conference for television, radio, new media, journalism, theatre and performance studies

Speakers from New Zealand, Catalonia, the Basque Country, Denmark, Iceland and Belgium

16-17 June 2011

The Atrium, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff CF24 2FN

Registration fee: £120 full, £85 students

(Registration closes 20.05.2011)

Conference - Call for Papers

2011-05-16T05:39:00.000-07:00

Cultures of Surveillance

Upcoming events

2011-05-09T05:02:00.000-07:00

EVENT 1 - Workshop

Digital impacts: how to measure and understand the usage and impact of digital content

20.05.2011, 09.30-16.00

Jesus College, Ship Street Centre Lecture Theatre

Oxford

Fee: £25 (including lunch and refreshments)

Book here

EVENT 2 - Seminar

19.05.2011, 10.00-17.00

Visualising the changing landscape of work and labour

Presentations from researchers who actively integrate images and image making into their investigations of work and working life.

Topics: 'Changing topographies of work' and 'Topographies of work in the city'

Warwick University

Room: Ramphal Building

Booking: Phil Mizen p.a.mizen@warwick.ac.uk

EVENT 3 - Seminar

ESRC Seminar Series: Visual Dialogues

New visual technologies, Media and practices: Challenges and practices for inequalities research

13.05.2011, 10.00-16.00

Library Meeting Rooms

The Open University, Milton Keynes

EVENT 4 - Talk

Wittgenstein on a motorbike: New media and digital communities as forms of practice

by Alberto Lopez Cuenca (Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico - Visiting Fellow)

10.05.2011, 17.00

hosted by the

Department of Media and Communication, Creative Media Forum

New Academic Building (NAB 3.26)

Goldsmiths, University of London

Souvenir Snaps

2011-04-30T04:39:00.000-07:00

Another view on the Royal Wedding...

A souvenir snap found on street after the Royal Wedding Ceremony.

Probably lost when packing up after the carriage with the royal wedding couple had past or when heading for some food or a toilet.

Symposium

2011-04-14T03:55:00.000-07:00

City to Sea

A symposium bringing together artists, photographers and social scientists to present visual projects and sociological research exploring how regeneration and planning processes, tourism, migration, collective memory, visual archives and art interventions can transform social perceptions and geographical links between cities, costal towns and surrounding regions worldwide.

Keynote: Peter Marlow, Magnum Photos

10. June 2011

10.30-18.30

Screening Room

New Academic Building

Goldsmiths, University of London

New Cross

London SE14 6NW

Free, but booking required

Everyone a researcher?

2011-04-05T04:39:00.000-07:00

MYSTREET

Mystreet asks members of the public to make a short documentary about the street they live in.

Films submitted until the 26th of May 2011 may have the chance to be screened at the 2011 Open City, London Documentary festival.

A critical article about the project can be read here.

Academic Diary

2011-04-05T04:34:00.000-07:00

Worth reading...

The academic diary by Les Back (Goldsmiths, University of London).

The diary provides a personal insight into academy and university life.

Identity Postgrad Seminar

2011-04-04T06:34:00.000-07:00

Identity and the Life Course Postgraduate Seminar

7th June 2011

1.00-5.00pm

Adam Smith Building, Room 915

University of Glasgow

The seminar is free, but places must be reserved in advance.

Programme

1.00-1.15 Registration

1.15.1.30 Introduction

1.30-2.00 Confronting the narrative: (Auto)biographies of orphan-hood by Delyth Edwards

2.00-2.30 Youth, adulthood, retirement: locating parenthood in the life course by Eric Chen

2.30-3.00 Break

3.00-3.30 Adult care leavers: life ling after leaving care by Zachari Duncalf

3.30-4.00 Perceptions and perceived effects and parental imprisonment upon children of prisoners: Effects on the life course by Amanda Swallow

4.00-4.30 Scottish survivors: Identity and the life course by Moyra Hawthron

4.30-5.00 Round up and seminar closure

Conference

2011-04-04T01:20:00.000-07:00

Centre for Narrative and Auto/Biographical Studies, University of Edinburgh

The Documents of Life - Revisited

20. May 2011, 09.30am-05.00pm

University of Edinburgh

The conference is FREE.

Registration is essential as places are limited.