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.
