Month: January 2021

Call for papers

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The ‘Club of Gender Studies’ in collaboration with the ‘Club of Ethnography’ of the Culture-Borders-
Gender/LAB at the Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies (BSOS) supports and hosts the
publication of a new annual magazine entitled ‘EIRINI-Anthropological Journal for the Study of Gender,
Cultural Diversity and Social Discriminations’ (https://ireneanthropologic.wixsite.com/website).

The Journal will host publications of research papers of postgraduate students, PhD candidates, and alumni of BSOS and other departments of UoM. The Journal will also accept papers of young graduates in Social Anthropology, Cultural Studies and other Social Sciences from Greek and foreign programs which study cultural diversity and social discrimination with a special focus on Gender Studies supporting equality.

For more details:

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Conference ‘2020 an extraordinary year in pandemic times: Academic experiences and research practices from the Balkans’

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The Department of Balkan Slavic and Oriental Studies, the “History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe LAB” and the “Culture-Borders-Gender /LAB” co-organize a conference entitled “2020 an extraordinary year in pandemic times: Academic experiences and research practices from the Balkans“, which will take place online on the zoom platform on 23rd and 24th of January 2021.
The link of the conference will be announced on Friday 22/1/2021
The conference is open to the public.
To register, enter your details on the platform: https://forms.gle/BYgwBWDFTdM7QpU6A

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Multimedia Encounters: Conference Programme

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The UCL Multimedia Anthropology Lab is pleased to invite you to our upcoming online conference and virtual exhibition, Multimedia Encounters: Experimental Approaches to Ethnographic Research. This event will begin next Tuesday 12th January at 17:45 with the following opening programme of keynote speakers. The full conference programme is attached as a PDF.

17:45 – 18:00 | Introduction: Multimedia Encounters
Raffaella Fryer-Moreira (UCL)

18:00 – 19:30 | Opening Panel: Knowledge Otherwise

How can anthropological knowledge be thought otherwise? What might the implications of this be for research practice and communication more broadly? This keynote panel introduces the core themes of the conference by bringing together three contemporary thinkers and the unique ideas that each mobilise in their critical engagements with knowledge.

  • 18:05 | Professor Haidy Geismar (UCL)
  • 18:25 | Dr Ludovic Coupaye (UCL) | The Anthropology of Techniques and the Techniques of Anthropology
  • 18:45 | Kuña Jaqueline Aranduhá (Kuñangue Aty Guasu / UFGD) | Decolonising anthropology: a perspective from Guarani & Kaiowá indigenous women
  • 19:05 | Panel discussion
  • 19:40 – 20:40 | Kuñangue Online: Opening Ceremony

To attend, please register for free on Eventbrite, and joining instructions will be shared on the day.
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UCL MAL is an interdisciplinary research network that explores innovative methods for conducting and presenting ethnographic research. We have organised several seminar series and exhibitions at UCL and have presented work and ideas at Somerset House, Modern Art Oxford, and the Tate Modern. Founded in 2017 by doctoral research students at UCL Anthropology, today MAL is composed of over 50 members around the world, with representatives from anthropology, art, computer science, sound studies, film, and human rights. MAL has been generously supported by UCL Anthropology, the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL Grand Challenges, and the British Museum.