CENTER  FOR  EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY

Hyper-Fictions/Hyper-Realism | 2021-2022 Theme

UPCOMING EVENTS

Join us on Thursday, January 20 2022 at noon for the Center for Experimental Ethnography's Third Thursday conversation with Wazhmah Osman, Assistant Professor at Temple University, and Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, Director, Screenwriter, and Editor. Our guests will discuss their film projects, including Osman's "Postcards from Tora Bora" and "Smokescreen", and Alexandrowicz latest piece, "The Viewing Booth". MORE

INTRODUCING SPRING 2022 FELLOW

​Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He is the author of two books of non-fiction, a collection of essays and ten novels. His books have won many prizes and he holds four honorary doctorates. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages and he has served on the Jury of the Locarno and Venice film festivals. In 2018 he became the first English-language writer to receive India’s highest literary honor, the Jnanpith Award. His most recent publication is Jungle Nama, an adaptation of a legend from the Sundarban, with artwork by Salman Toor. His new book, The Nutmeg’s Curse; Parables for a Planet in Crisis, a work of non-fiction, is due to be published in October 2021. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, the writer Deborah Baker. MORE
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RECENT EVENTS

Responsive Roots: Vodou Beats Across the Waters
DEC 7TH 2021
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The Center for Experimental Ethnography and WXPN on Dec. 7 at 10am  hosted a panel on Haitian Vodou inspirations and the roots of musical responses to social injustice with sensational Haitian and Haitian American artists  Manzè Beaubrun (Boukman Eksperyans), Malou Beauvoir (Malou Beauvoir), and Richard Morse (RAM and IMAMOU), in conversation with Dr. Camee Maddox-Wingfield. The event will be in English with simultaneous translation in Haitian Creole.
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Affect Theatre
​DEC 6TH 2021
CEE Fellow Year-End Event "Affect Theatre",  was  presentation on Dec 6th at 5 pm, followed by a discussion led by  CEE Fall Fellows Cristiana Giordano and Greg Pierotti . How does an ethnographer remain affected by worlds encountered after leaving the field of research? How does a theater maker build theatrical worlds from empirical research that conveys not only story, but also affective experiences? Affect Theatre is a thinking and acting space for experimenting with these questions. During this lecture presentations students  presented brief theatrical episodes which they then explored and analyzed with spectators in a group....
Mexican Psychotic
DEC 3rd 2021
CEE Fellow Year-End Event "Mexican Psychotic ", an experimental film was  led by Ricardo Bracho, followed by a panel discussion with an exciting array of panelists on Dec 3rd at 5 pm.
Mexican Psychotic is an experimental video-in-progress on the life, art, and mythos of artist Martín Ramírez, who spent 30 years drawing beautiful works while incarcerated in California mental asylums. The film team includes Richardo Bracho as writer and director, Oludare Marcelle as lead editor/animator, Emily Dunlop as assistant editor, Nicholas Plante as assistant editor, and voiceover director. MORE

FALL FELLOWS COURSES

GETTING CAUGHT 

ANTH-588/401 FNAR-388/588 THAR-388/401 
with CEE Fellows Greg Pierotti and Cristiana Giordano
This seminar is an exploration of and a cross pollination between research and narrative practices in theater and anthropology. By creating a dialogue between these disciplines in a laboratory format, we hope to pose questions and explore techniques in ways that will enrich our engagement with anthropological questions and performative production... 

SURREALISM IN THE AMERICAS 

ANTH 596/401 I GSWS-398/401 I LALS-596/401 I FNAR-596/401
with CEE Fellow Ricardo Bracho
Surrealism in the Americas is a workshop focused around the reading, writing and production of surrealist manifestos, plays, performances, poems and fiction. Taking the stance that surrealist literary production is at its base a left aesthetic engagement with form and politics, the course will survey North American, South American and Caribbean engagements with what is largely misunderstood as a European aesthetic and movement....

The Contest over "Indigeneity"

APRIL 23-April 30th

Curated and organized by Jenny Chio (jchio@usc.edu)
Spring 2021 Visiting Fellow, Center for Experimental Ethnography...KEEP READING

REGGIE WILSON &
​"GROUNDS THAT SHOUT!!"

May 1, 2021 I 3:00 PM EST​

Curated and organized by Reggie Wilson, Spring 2021 Visiting Fellow, Center for Experimental Ethnography....KEEP READING

INTRODUCING THE VISUAL IDENTITIES iN ARTS AND DESIGN RESEARCH GROUP (VIAD)

The CEE  and The Visual Identities in Arts and Design Research Group at the University of Johannesburg are forging exciting transatlantic connections. Established in 2007, the VIAD research group is dedicated to deepening research around the overarching thematic of identity construction through forms of visual practice, visual culture and visual representation, and specifically in relation to African and Afrodiasporic histories and experiences. Learn more

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