I recently received an e-mail from Professor Torneby of the University of Oslo asking me to advertise one of their summer courses in visual anthropology:
Dear Karen Nakamura,Sounds great!I would be very thankful if you provided information about this PhD courses to take place in Norway this coming summer, on your blog:
Course title: Contemporary Art and Anthropology:
Challenges of Theory and Practice
Lecturer: Associate Professor Arnd Schneider,
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
Main disciplines: Anthropology, Fine Arts, Media Studies
Secondary disciplines: Art History/Criticism, Cultural Studies
Dates: 30. July - 3. August 2007
Location, University of Oslo, Norway
Course Credits: 10 pts (ECTS)
Limitation: 30 participants
Detailed information and online application:
http://www.sv.uio.no/oss/index.htmlCourse objectives:
This course will look at recent border crossings between art and anthropology, and explore the epistemological challenges arising from it. Following the so-called ‘ethnographic turn’, contemporary artists have adopted an ‘anthropological’ gaze, including methodologies, such as fieldwork, in their appropriation of other cultures. Anthropologists, on the other hand, in the wake of the ‘writing culture’ critique of the 1980s, are starting to explore new forms of visual research and representation beyond written texts.This course will explore the potential for future collaborations between art and anthropology. The curriculum will be based on an examination of key texts, and review of a number of paradigmatic artists and issues (such as, fieldwork/ site-specific ethnography, appropriation, research in and representation of different sensual domains/’synaesthesia’).
In its workshops and assessment options the course encourages presentation and submission of practice-based visual work.
The course format is lectures and workshops, in which students are encouraged to present their work in progress.
The course is interdisciplinary and directed at doctoral students and researchers in the social sciences, humanities, and in the visual arts (including anthropology/visual anthropology, sociology, art criticism, art history, fine arts, film practice and studies, design, media practice and cultural studies).
Best regards,Tron Harald Torneby
The Faculty of Social Sciences
The University of Oslo
P.O.Box 1084 Blindern
NO-0317 Oslo
Norway
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Oslo Summer School in Comparative
Social Sciences Studies 2007
http://www.sv.uio.no/oss/index.html
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A very quick drive-by comment, but I am fascinated to hear there's exploration of the intersection of art and anthropology going on, mediated in this case by community and evanescent pixels.
I have so very much to learn -- and am glad I wandered by as a result of a post on the Eloqua.com Web site citing the University of Kansas Digital Ethnography YouTube video.
TTFN!
Interesting...Perhaps you can spread the words to Asia countries. Recently Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) has launched their new faculty in social sciences, website: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/hss, you may want to get in touch with them.