Category: Pedagogy

  • Syllabi

    Syllabi that attend to some combination of performance, theatre, visual media, writing and ethnography

    ETHNOGRAPHY AND FILM, Dr. James Aimers, Department of Anthropology, Geneseo University.

    AUDIO ETHNOGRAPHY: LISTENING TO CULTURES AND COMMUNITIES, Catherine Braun, Department of English, Bowling Green State University. 

    PRACTICES OF LOOKING: VISUAL CULTURE AND CONTEMPORARY LIFE, Craig Campbell, Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas Austin.

    THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE, Craig Campbell, Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas Austin. 

    ARCHIVE AND EPHEMERA, Craig Campbell, Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas Austin.

    INTRODUCTION TO EXPRESSIVE CULTURE, Craig Campbell, Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas Austin. 

    ANTHROPOLOGY AND LITERATURE, Michele Dominy, Department of Anthropology, Bard College.

    THE GLOBAL CITY AND MEDIA ETHNOGRAPHY:PRACTICE-LED TRANSCULTURAL MEDIA RESEARCH, Alan Feldman;Rosella Raggazzi (University of Tromsø, Norway); Roshini Kempadoo (University of East London); Mark Curren (Dublin Institute of Technology & Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology), Department of Media Culture and Communication, and Visual Culture Program, NYU-Steinhardt.

    EXPLORATIONS IN ORAL NARRATIVE, J.W. Fernandez, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.

    GIRL STORIES: RACE, POLITICS, AND PEDAGOGY, Melissa Harris-Parry and Dani Parker.

    ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE SENSES, Zulfikar Hirji and Natasha Myers, Department of Anthropology, York University.

    LANGUAGE AND THE BODY, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway, Department of Anthropology, Oberlin College.

    EXPLORING CULTURE THROUGH FILM, Lanita Jacobs, Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California.

    ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING, Richard Kernaghan, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida. 

    MANAGING THE PAST:  CULTURE, MEMORY, AND RECONCILIATION AFTER MASS TRAUMA, Erica Lehrer, Department of Anthropology, Univeristy of Illinois.

    ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM: HISTORY AND THEORY OF ETHNOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION ON FILM AND VIDEO, Deborah Matzner, Department of Anthropology, Wellesley College.

    SPECULATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY, Anand Pandian, John Hopkins University.

    VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Pilar K. Rau, Department of Anthropology, New York University.

    SEMINAR IN MEDIA, CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION, Martin Scherzinger Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University.

    COMICS & CULTURE, Nick Sousanis, San Francisco State University. 

    DOING ETHNOGRAPHY: Music and Sound, Maria Sonevytsky, Bard.

    SENSORY ETHNOGRAPHY, Lisa Stevenson, Department of Anthropology, McGill University.

  • CIE Pedagogical Experiments

    CIE Pedagogical Experiments

    Unknowing Poverty: Ananya Roy at TEDxBerkeley

    Ananya Roy – Professor of City and Regional Planning and Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice at the University of California, Berkeley — in a talk given at TEDxBerkely discusses “the ways that poverty is seen and understood in American society and around the world.  Roy eloquently states: “…[T]he rich have state help, the poor have self-help […] To unknow poverty is to make a shift from asking how we can help the poor, to asking how poverty is produced, to asking how wealth, power and privilege are maintained.” LINK TO VIDEO

    York University Graduate Program: Performance Ethnography

    York University Graduate Students in the Theatre and Performance Studies Program present their final projects: examining performance as ethnographic representation, performance as collaborative ethnographic research methodology, and pedagogical applications of performance ethnography. LINK TO VIDEOS

    Student Devised Theatre Projects – Performance Ethnography

    Over the 2014 Winter term, students in Dr. Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston’s 2nd year Devised Theatre class participated in an introduction to the devising of original theatre in a collaborative setting. Through classroom exercises and the creation, rehearsal, and presentation of devised and interpreted performance projects, the participants explored the essential questions and investigative tools of the theatre practitioner. LINK TO VIDEOS

    February 2014: ELY ROSENBLUM’S “IF ONE NIGHT…”

    A SENSORY ETHNOGRAPHY CLASS EXERCISE. I teach a second year course introducing students to sensory ethnography. A few weeks ago, students read Rosenblum’s statement and we listened to “If One Night…” in class. Then, each student wrote a 150-word blog post about visual images and emplaced memories listening to this soundscape evoked for them. These included: Vancouver, Hong Kong, Africa, San Francisco, South Asia, East Asia, UK, rural farmers’ markets, family dinners in a buffet restaurant, clip clop of Clydesdale horses, serene landscapes, flamenco dancing, motor boats, chain saws, lawnmowers, pet stores, wharfs, men walking in heavy boots in the rain, rich and wet textures, sea planes landing in an airport, and being lost in a forest. Many students were intrigued by the visual images listening provoked, by the diversity of images and memories the class members reported, and by the experience of purposefully listening in itself. Listening to “If One Night…” awakened students’ interests in the possibilities attention to sound may offer sensory ethnographers….Dara

    iphone Drone short film, Ethnographic Montage, Student project by Jennifer Lindsay for Denielle Elliott, SOSC 4140 – The Body and the State, Department of Social Science, York University. LINK TO VIDEO

    Creative fiction and economic anthropology, Student project by Grace Beaujean for Denielle Elliott, ANTH 490 – The Anthropology of Capitalism, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Anchorage. 

    Podcast, Student term project by Andrew Fischer for Denielle Elliott, ANTH 490 – The Anthropology of Capitalism, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Anchorage. 

    Blogging Assignment, Dara Culhane, SA 402 – The Practice of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University 

    OMG! Ethnographic Theatre Project, Collaborative Creation by AN101 – Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology – students, and Magdalena and Shawn Kazubowski-Houston, Department of Anthropology, Wilfrid Laurier University.

    MINI-CONFERENCES: The Practice of Anthropology, and Urban Communities and Cultures. Two courses Dara Culhane teaches at Simon Fraser University.

    BLACKSBURG WALKS: LINK TO WEBSITE

    EXPLOSION OF IMAGES: LINK TO WEBSITE

    ETHNOGRAPHY: FIELDWORK AND REPRESENTATION: LINK TO WEBSITE | LINK TO VIDEO

    STORIES AND PLAYS: an experiment in experimental, performative ethnography. A Manual. Dara Culhane and Stories & Plays Team. LINK TO PDF

    SMILE BECAUSE IT HAPPENED project from a Digital Ethnography class lead by Professor Michael Wesch: LINK TO VIDEO

    Student performance ethnography projects for THST 5021 Theories of Praxis 2012, instructor: Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston (photos taken by Brian Batchelor): LINK TO PHOTO ARCHIVE

    AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF A NORTH LONDON HOUSEHOLD: a preview of a short ethnographic exercise conducted in partial fulfilment for the practical course in Digital Anthropology@UCL. LINK TO WEBSITE

    THE SECRET LIFE OF THINGS LINK TO VIDEOS I LINK TO WEBSITE