CENTER  FOR  EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY

futures unbound | 2020-2021 theme

CEE STATEMENT oF SOLIDARITY

The Center for Experimental Ethnography, which is located in the Penn Museum, stands in solidarity with the MOVE family and seeks to amplify the statement by the Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA).  We acknowledge and condemn the ethical indifference and lack of oversight at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania Museum, and Princeton, institutions that for thirty-five years allowed the remains of Tree and Delisha Africa -- two of the children killed when the City of Philadelphia dropped two bombs on the MOVE compound in 1985 -- to be used, researched, handled, and transferred without the permission or knowledge of their family.

This is a glaring reminder of the work that remains to be done in order to transform the University of Pennsylvania, the Penn Museum, and the discipline of Anthropology more broadly.  We support the ongoing work of our colleagues who have been challenging white supremist violence, decolonizing knowledge production, and boldly envisioning forms of repair, reparation, and collective care. 

UPCOMING EVENT

RECENT EVENTS

The Contest over "Indigeneity"

Apr 23-29.  2021 
Curated and organized by Jenny Chio (jchio@usc.edu)
Spring 2021 Visiting Fellow, Center for Experimental Ethnography....LEARN MORE

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....LEARN MORE

PAST APRIL EVENTS

​TOWARD A RADICALLY HUMANIST ANTHROPOLOGY
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Since the earliest days of the discipline, anthropological knowledge production has been deeply rooted in a set of foundational distinctions that have been integral to the creation of regimes of domination, eradication, and extraction that continue to pose existential challenges to the entire globe. Eurocentric perspectives based on anti-Blackness and white supremacist, colonialist assumptions have long insisted upon the separation of “nature” and “culture” and “self” and “other.” 
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APRIL THIRD THURSDAY
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On Thursday, April 15th at Noon,  the virtual Third Thursday event led by CAMRA,  discussed  Screening Scholarship Media Festival (SSMF) during CEE’s April Third Thursday. The festival, a hybrid academic conference and media festival that offers multimodal scholars working across various forms and fields an opportunity for critical discourse and collaboration, was held on April 16-18, 2021. Members of the CAMRA directors’ team and the SSMF planning committee gave a preview of this year’s festival and discuss the challenges of adapting a conference centered around the theme of Rupture and Repair (originally intended for the 2020 Festival that was cancelled due to COVID-19) for a virtual platform. They highlighted the promises and pitfalls of engaging different modalities in an effort to maintain the spirit, ethics, and ethos originally intended for the in-person event. 
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Spring 2021 FELLOWS

Dr. Jenny Chio

Jenny Chio is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Keep reading... 

Reggie wilson

Reggie Wilson is Executive and Artistic Director, Choreographer and Performer of Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group.  His work draws from the cultures of Africans in the Americas and is combined with post-modern elements and his own personal movement style to create what he sometimes refers to as "post-African/Neo-HooDoo Modern dances." 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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