OxDeg: Introducing Project Seventy: A disruption of visual culture – a Culture interest event taking place on 2017-11-15 16:30:00 in United Kingdom
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Dr. Alison Kahn from Oxford Brookes University for the OxDeg talk 'Introducing Project Seventy:Introducing Project Seventy- a disruption of visual culture'. The hashtag to use for tweeting about this event is #OxDeg About the Talk Project Seventy is a work-in-progress interactive documentary constructed around seventy stories gathered from both Indian and British citizens. Now mostly in their 80s and 90s, these participants lived through the Independence process seventy years ago. It involves both sound and film recordings and will build upon previous collaborative research with Catriona Child, daughter of Ursula Graham Bower, anthropologist, filmmaker and resistance fighter in the period of Japanese occupation of the Naga Hills in the 1940s. I have chosen the i-documentary format for this project as it allows one to offer pathways through a series of non-linear connections between texts, stills and moving images. A central question will concern the nature of Anglo-Indian identity, which is clearly far from uniform, as the population is now scattered across the globe. Please Note Please arrive early to avoid disappointment, unclaimed seats will be given to those on the wait list 5 minutes before the event starts. About the Speaker Dr. Alison Kahn was trained as an anthropologist at the universities of London (MA) and Oxford (MPhil, DPhil). She works in both the media industry and in academia, lecturing on documentary filmmaking and production in the Film and Digital Media Production department at Oxford Brookes University. IDr Kahn integrates the use of audio-visual artefacts and digital media as tools and products of her research. Her area of study includes material culture and colonial and post-colonial discourses in India, focusing on the Naga and Anglo-Indian global diasporas. About the Series This seminar series, created by the Oxford Digital Ethnography Group, gathers leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on how ethnography is adapting to the study of heavily-mediated worlds. The overarching theme is digital ethnography, broadly conceived. The group aims to extend inter-disciplinary academic research and collaboration among scholars at Oxford University interested in understanding rich, qualitative approaches to researching behaviour online. It will encompass a variety of research interests within this field, including digital visual anthropology as well as a variety of qualitative, ethnographic methodologies appropriate to the study of the digital environment.
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