THE CENTER FOR EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY
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LISTEN | Experiments in Audio EthnogRAPHY
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: PABLO AGUILERA DEL CASTILLO
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Experience Pablo's audio ethnography "Riparian Encounters" in the "Experiments in Audio Ethnography" exhibit here.
This listening experience features six student audio works from 2019 CEE Fellow Ernst Karel's course "Audio Ethnography".
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Growing Home Community Gardens. Photo by Jake Nussbaum
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Pablo Aguilera del Castillo is a Mexico City native and a Ph.D. student in the anthropology department focusing on environmental anthropology in the Yucatan Peninsula. Prior to his time at Penn he received a BA in Human Ecology and an MA in Critical Development Studies. He has worked in between Mexico and Bolivia on development programs and environmentalism for over six years. Pablo's research is situated at the interface of STS, anthropology, and Latin American studies. His current project explores the transformation of the Yucatec aquifers as well as the community efforts to respond to these changes. As part of his doctoral research he has used photography, mapping, drawing, and audio ethnography to explore the quotidian practices of local scientists and communities around various emergent environmental problems in the Yucatan Peninsula.
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VIRTUAL SCREENING | COMMUNITY-BASED FILM IN PHILLY
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Thanks to the generosity of Scribe Video Center and the Precious Places Community History Project, we are excited to bring you a new film each week from April 20 through June 1! Each video will be up for one week only, so be sure to tune back in and catch these great community-made short films that explore the histories of Philadelphia neighborhoods and institutions in the voices of residents. Film Schedule Here
Scribe Video Center's Precious Places Community History Project is a community oral history project inviting members of the Philadelphia region's many neighborhoods to document the buildings, public spaces, parks, landmarks and other sites that hold the memories of our communities and define where we live. Precious Places teaches the video production process to participating groups, fostering projects authored by those who intimately know the featured neighborhoods. |
NOW SHOWING
Join us in watching "Playing in the Wreck" by the Gray's Ferry Civic Association. The 102-year old Vare Recreation Center, a decaying landmark in the Gray's Ferry neighborhood of South Philly, is a beacon of youth programming for a community navigating its own unique challenges and triumphs.
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PROF. GUTHRIE RAMSEY ELECTED
TO AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
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We are excited to announce that Prof. Guthrie Ramsey has been elected to join the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Ramsey is an accomplished composer, pianist, and musicologist, and is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Experimental Ethnography. Dr. Ramsey's latest music project is "A Spiritual Vibe, Vol. 1," (watch a video on the project here), and he is the author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop, The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History and the Challenge of Bebop and African American Music: Grove Music Essentials (Kindle Edition), as well as the filmmaker of Amazing: The Tests and Triumph of Bud Powell , and the founder of the popular blog Musiqology.com. Ramsey composed and performed the music for the film Making Sweet Tea, by Nora Gross and John L. Jackson, Jr. which has been winning awards at film festivals across the country (watch trailer).
As an educator, Dr. Ramsey was awarded the 2019 CEE Course Development Grant to launch his innovative course: “The Music Industry Meets Activism.” In the course, Penn students learned about community activism and the music industry through up-close experiences with community organizations and artists, culminating in their work co-producing (with Green District Media and a graduate student in the Annenberg School of Communication) a professional music video for the song "Hurricane" by Philadelphia artist Vince Anthony. Our most heartfelt congratulations, Dr. Ramsey!
As an educator, Dr. Ramsey was awarded the 2019 CEE Course Development Grant to launch his innovative course: “The Music Industry Meets Activism.” In the course, Penn students learned about community activism and the music industry through up-close experiences with community organizations and artists, culminating in their work co-producing (with Green District Media and a graduate student in the Annenberg School of Communication) a professional music video for the song "Hurricane" by Philadelphia artist Vince Anthony. Our most heartfelt congratulations, Dr. Ramsey!
PRESIDENT'S ENGAGEMENT PRIZE
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Congratulations to Marcia Ferguson (Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts & CEE Affiliated Faculty) who mentored Meera Menon and Philip Chen, winners of the President's Engagement & Innovation Prize for "The Unscripted Project".
Watch our Zoom conversation with Marcia Ferguson about the project here & read the prize announcement.
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Photo courtesy Emily Carris & Wayne Modest
Just cut us some slackWatch an online conversation with our CEE 2020 Fellows Wayne Modest and Emily Carris who discuss love, joy, laughter, being black today, materiality, and the urgencies of our contemporary condition. Watch Now...
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Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, proposal work 2020.
Photograph by Rå Vitche-Boul.
PERFORMANCE INTENSIVECatch up on the eight-day Performance Intensive, which was held in Philadelphia between January 5th and January 12, 2020. Read More.
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RESOURCES FOR UNCERTAINTY
FEBRUARY EVENTS
ZAMA ZAMA PROJECTSlought
Join Slought on February 20th 6:30 to 8:30 PM for Documentary for Critical Times, a conversation about the possibilities and limits of the moving image in times of crisis. Organized in conjunction with the installation The Zama Zama Project, this event will feature a conversation with artists Susan Meiselas and Rosalind Morris about what it means to produce documents and documentaries of crisis...Keep Reading |
DIALOGUEPatricia Roberts-Miller & Seth Kreimer
On February 20th, join Professor Patricia Roberts-Miller (University of Texas at Austin) and Professor Seth Kreimer (University of Pennsylvania Law School) in a dialogue about Demagoguery and Free Speech. Demagoguery has a been a frequent topic of American documentary films. Demagoguery is also seen as posing a threat to news media around the world today. But what precisely is "demagoguery"? Read More... |
THE MOVEMENT REVISITEDPlease join us for this very special discussion, moderated by Dyana Williams, and duo performance in celebration of Christian McBride’s The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons (Mack Avenue Records) at Penn Museum’s Widener Lecture Hall. The Movement Revisited grew into a sweeping four-part suite for big jazz band, small jazz group...Read More & RSVP Here...
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CURRENT FELLOWS
WAYNE MODESTWayne Modest is the head of the Research Center of Material Culture. He is also professor of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies (by special appointment) in the faculty of humanities at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (VU). Modest’s work is driven by a concern for more historically contingent ways of understanding the present, especially in relation to material culture/museum collections.
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EMILY CARRISEmily Carris is an artist and founding member of The Art Dept. Collective, a collaborative vintage store and workshop space dedicated to sharing stories and uplifting underserved artists.
Her work exploring the personal and cultural legacy of slavery and the Black female body has been exhibited nationally and internationally. |
RECENT EVENTS
SPRING FELLOW MEETUPEmily Carris + Wayne Modest
For the first Third Thursday of 2020, students, faculty, and community friends gathered together to meet up with incoming CEE Faculty Fellows Emily Carris and Wayne Modest. Emily began her presentation posing a question that first occurred to her in England, while contemplating an image of a slave ship in a tumultuous ocean.... "what does salt know?" Seven years after her work in England, Emily returned to Philadelphia to work on developing institutional space for art as scholarship, which culminated in her founding the Art Dept. Collective.
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ZAMA ZAMA PROJECTMultimodal Exhibition at Slought
The Zama Zama Project" is a multi-format installation by Rosalind Morris about the world of informal mining in the abandoned gold mines of South Africa, on display January 24 - March 20, 2020. The opening event, titled "The Cost of Gold," took place on Wednesday, January 29th from 6:30-8:30pm at Slought featured a conversation about informal mining and its representation with artist Rosalind Morris and Radhika Subramaniam, moderated by Eduardo Cadava. The exhibit and opening are both free and open to the public.
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SONIC WORLDSJuan Castrillon (CEE Student)
Between January 21st and the 24th, Juan Castrillon (PhD Candidate in Music and CEE Graduate Certificate Student) delivered three guest lectures at the University of Helsinki: Amazonian Indigenous Music and Communication with Non-Humans: The Sonic Worlds of the Hehenewa People, multimodal methods in ethnomusicology, and Sonic Worlds of Dervishes. In addition, the University will be hosting film screenings of Rehavi (Timekeepers) and ~Kiraiñia (Long Flutes) followed by Q&As with Juan. Check out the trailer to ~Kiraiñia here:
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