5-0830 DOCUMENTARY FUTURES

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Saturday, November 19, 2011: 13:45-17:30

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Christine J Walley (MIT)

Chairs: Chris Boebel (MIT)

Discussants: Faye Ginsburg (New York University) and Nancy C Lutkehaus (University of Southern California)

13:45

Introduction

14:00

Social Change Through Film? the Potential of Documentary Film and New Media In Empowering LGTB Activism In Indonesia

Laura Coppens (University of Zurich)

14:15

Degrees of Proximity: Collaborating On a Documentary of Heroes and Pariahs

Amahl A Bishara (Tufts University)

14:30

Making Movies, Making Science: Notes From the Classroom

Chris Boebel (MIT)

14:45

Documenting Dukkha: Ethnographic Encounters with Buddhist Media

Robert Y. Chang (New York University)

15:00

Things As Agents: Film As Inquiry Into the Powers of Cloth

Melissa Amah Edoh (MIT)

15:15

Research 2.0: The Paradox of Popular Culture and Multi-Media Ethnography

Eric o'Connell (USC)

15:30

Break

15:45

Pulling the Strings of Visual Ethnography: Filming Dream Logics In An Armenian Puppet Theater

Canay Ozden (MIT)

16:00

The Sensate Being In a Multimedia World

Julia H Yezbick (Harvard University)

16:15

"A Sounding Sculpture That Lasts": On Composing Location Recordings In Nepal

Stephanie Anne Spray (Harvard University )

16:30

Discussant

Faye Ginsburg (New York University)

16:45

Collaborating a Trajectory: Filming Thirty Years Later In One Alaska Native Community

Sarah Elder (SUNY Buffalo)

17:00

Discussant

Nancy C Lutkehaus (University of Southern California)

17:15

Discussion

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