ESRC Festival of Social Science Every Language Matters: Documenting and sustaining endangered languages Thursday, 8 November 2012, 6 pm WRITING PANARE: Portrait of a linguist at fieldwork (1996, 30 minutes) Film screening & discussion with director Paul Henley Marie-Claude Muller is a linguist who has worked for many years with the Panare, an Amerindian people […]
Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Awareness Film screening of Awareness by David and Judith MacDougall, 2011, 67 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) Filmed in South India, Andhra Pradesh, at Rishi Valley School, […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 6 pm Light on the Lotus Hill (2011) Film screening and discussion about the use of archival material to create a documentary with Chan Chow Wah The Royal Anthropological Institute 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT "Light on the Lotus Hill" is a research project and film […]
Wednesday, 21 November 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Black Mountain Film screening of Black Mountain by Charlotte Whitby-Coles, Amin Hajee, 2008, 84 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) A once unremarkable site of multi-faith pilgrimage to […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Thursday, 22 November 2012, 6 pm FRAGMENTS FROM THE PAST Film screening and discussion with Julie Scott A Mediterranean Voices film by Vedide Kaymak and Hakan Demiralay, 27 mins, 2006 An Oral History book with portraits by Barbara and Zafar Baran and interviews by Vrdede Kaymak will be available for sale […]
Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Sermiligaag 65°54'N, 36°22'W Film screening of Sermiligaag 65°54'N, 36°22'W, by Anni Seitz and Sophie Elixhauser, 2008, 64 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) The people of East Greenland […]
Upstairs @ the RAI, Friday, 30 November 2012, 6.30 pm LETTERS FROM PALESTINE (2011, 36 minutes) Film screening and discussion about the use of archival material to create a documentary with Ludovica Fales The Royal Anthropological Institute 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT (North-East Corner of Fitzroy Square, off Warren Street, next to the French […]
Wednesday, 5 December 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - Unity through Culture Film screening of Unity through Culture by Christian Suhr and Ton Otto, 2011, 60 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/) Soanin Killangit is determined to […]
Wednesday, 12 December 2012, 1pm - Ethnographic Film Series - The Professional Foreigner - Asen Balikci and Visual Ethnography Film screening of The Professional Foreigner - Asen Balikci and Visual Ethnography by Rolf Husmann. 2009, 60 min School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, College Building, Thornhaugh Street off Russell Square, […]
THE BODY CANVAS EXHIBITION & FILM SCREENING At the Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy St., London W1T 5BT 13th December 6:00 pm -7:30 pm SUSPEND YOUR BELIEFS Film screening and Q&A with film maker Simone Clifford-Jaeger Director: Simone Clifford-Jaeger Release: 2004 Length: 29 mins Suspension of the living body from hooks has been practiced in […]
Pre-Conference Seminar Series: Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods: theories and practices'Visual Narratives of 'Fierce' Goddesses and 'Brave' Historical Women Akanksha Mehta, SOAS Monday, 18 February 2013 17:00 - 19:00 Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT - S2 Conveners: Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (University of Cambridge) Susanne Hammacher […]
Pre-Conference Seminar Series: Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods: theories and practices'Eyes of the Ancestor: ‘returning’ photographs to an Indian village Dr Mark Elliott, MAA, University of Cambridge Monday, 25 February 2013 17:00 - 19:00 Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT - S2 Conveners: Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes […]
Pre-Conference Seminar Series: Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods: theories and practices'History, memory and stigma: Filming India's 'criminal'/denotified tribes in western India Dr William Gould (University of Leeds) and Mr Dakxinkumar Bajrange (Budhan Theatre, Ahmedabad) Tuesday, 5 March 2013 17:00 - 19:00 Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 […]
Pre-Conference Seminar Series: Exploring modern South Asian history with visual research methods: theories and practices'Delhi at Eleven: David MacDougall, children filmmakers and urban India Dr Stephen Hughes, SOAS Monday, 11 March 2013 17:00 - 19:00 Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT - S2 Conveners: Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (University of Cambridge) […]
Registration Open Registration is now open for the 13th RAI INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM 2013, held from Thursday 13th June to Sunday 16th June 2013 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Please register online: http://raifilmfest.org.uk/film/festival/2013/registration The festival is jointly hosted by the National Museums of Scotland and STAR (Scottish Training in Anthropological Research, a collaboration between the […]
Gaalli Haddha - A Camel is Like a Mother (10 mins, 2013) A film about young Karrayyu boys as they embark on their annual 200 mile journey through Ethiopia with their camels. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Adanech Admassu, Beth Cullen and Tracy Pallant, the producers and researchers of this participatory […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 2 October Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Gods and Kings Robin Blotnick, Jubilee Films, Garrett Cook, Rachel Lears, 87 mins, 2012, USA At a festival in a sleepy Guatemalan mountain town, traditional dances […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 9 October Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Salma Kim Longinotto, 90 mins, 2013, UK/India When Salma was 13, her parents took her out of school and locked her away in a room with a […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 16 October Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Real Time Memories - The '18 Days in Egypt ' interactive platform as instant archive In this seminar contribution, Ludovica Fales, will discuss an aspect of her […]
Ethnographic Film Series Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Film Committee and SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology 23 October Wednesday 1 PM, Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS Playing With Nan Dipesh Kharel, Asami Saito, 88 mins , Nepal/Japan Playing with Nan is the story of a young Nepali man who migrated to work in […]
