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Craft as Method: The Creative Labor of Ethnographic Practice
September 9, 2019
This talk combines a short reading from my novel-in-progress, The Wishful, with reflections on the relationship between aesthetics and analytics in ethnographic textual production. Drawing on experiences with feminist, corporeal creative writing practices over the last several years, I suggest that on-going attention to the problem of genre -- and its disruption -- as it emerges in the everyday labor of writing is essential for the discipline of anthropology.
Megan Moodie is Associate Professor of Anthropology and affiliated faculty in Feminist Studies, Film and Digital Media, and Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She specializes in feminist political-legal anthropology and experimental ethnographic writing for broad audiences.
Conversations on Documentary: How Form Influences Function
February 13, 2020
This seminar explores how “reality” is represented in various forms of documentary (video, podcasting, comics). It will provide insights into documentary production, ethics, and production cultures. There will be a short presentation followed by an open discussion on the intersections of documentary and ethnography, and how to translate concepts into practice.
Sowj Kudva has been working in video production for nearly two decades, and has recently branched out into writing for radio and comics. As a freelance filmmaker, they have produced videos for corporate clients, nonprofits, and independent filmmakers. Their work has premiered at national festivals and conferences, and has been distributed on a number online media outlets. In addition to freelance filmmaking, they have held Senior Producer positions at both WIRED Magazine and ITVS. Sowj is passionate about bringing a social justice lens to production cultures, media literacy, and narrative theory. Sowj completed their MFA in Film and Media Arts at Temple University and will be an Assistant Professor of Cinema & Television Arts at Elon University beginning Fall 2020.
Ethnographic Sense: Composing the Contemporary
April 9, 2021
What does it mean to write from the inside of our current condition—a global pandemic that has kept us home for a year, even as events unfold across the nation and the globe. How can we “make something” of the present, when conditions for doing ethnography have fundamentally changed?
Panelists
Carole McGranahan is a cultural anthropologist and historian specializing in contemporary Tibet and the USA. Her research focuses on issues of colonialism and empire, history and memory, power and politics, refugees and citizenship, gender, war, nationalism, senses of belonging, and ethnography as method, theory, and writing. She is author of Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Histories of a Forgotten War(Duke UP, 2010), and editor of Imperial Formations (2007, co-edited with Ann Stoler and Peter Perdue), Ethnographies of U.S. Empire (2018, co-edited with John Collins), Flash Ethnography (co-edited with Nomi Stone, 2020), and Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment (2020, Duke UP). Currently, completing a book about the Pangdatsang family, Tibet, and British India in the first half of the 20th century, and finishing a decade of research in France, India, Nepal, New York City, Switzerland, and Toronto titled Refugee Citizenship: Asylum, Refusal, and Political Subjectivity in the Tibetan Diaspora. During the pandemic, her writing has been alternatively halted and energized, including work on an in-progress book manuscript Theoretical Storytelling: Ethnography as a Way of Knowing.
Marina Peterson is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work traces modalities of matter, sensory attunements, and emergent socialities, exploring diverse and innovative ways of encountering and presenting the ethnographic. Her recently published book, Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles (Duke UP, 2021), engages mobilizations around airport noise to address ways in which noise amplifies modes of sensing and making sense of the atmospheric. She is the author of Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles (UPenn Press, 2010) and co-editor of Global Downtowns (with Gary McDonogh, UPenn Press, 2012), Anthropology of the Arts: A Reader (with Gretchen Bakke, Bloomsbury, 2016), and Between Matter and Method: Encounters in Anthropology and Art (with Gretchen Bakke, Bloomsbury, 2017). Her work has appeared in Anthropological Quarterly, Popular Music Studies, Postmodern Culture, Space and Culture, Social Text, and South Atlantic Quarterly.