CENTER  FOR  EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY

futures unbound | 2020-2021 theme

CEE #21

A new issue of CEE News is out, check out the CEE #21 to learn about Reggie and Jenny Chio, current CEE courses, and upcoming events and discussions.

MEET THE FELLOWS

On Thursday, January 21st at Noon we had a virtual "Meet the Fellows" event, introducing our Spring Fellows, Reggie Wilson and Jenny Chio. The fellows discussed their current projects and their respective graduate courses for the semester.

Spring 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. As a cultural anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker, her writing and filmmaking explore the shifting intersections of subjectivity, collective memory, and modernity, with an emphasis on race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage as powerful categories in the contemporary world. 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." He has lectured, taught and conducted workshops and community projects, and had his work presented nationally and internationally. Keep reading...

 FALL 2020 FELLOWS EVENTS

DOOmsDAY:
FIELD NOTES

DEC 3 AT 5 PM
“It’s after the end of the world, don’t you know that yet?”
– Sun Ra

On December 3rd at 5 PM EST,  The Center for Experimental Ethnography fellow Christina Knight and choreographer Jessi Knight of knightworks dance theater discussed their forthcoming short film, “doomsday: field notes,” a fictional work documenting a mysterious set of ritual practices discovered by an anthropologist from the future. Read More...

HEARING HEAT

DEC 8 AT 5 PM
Steven Feld, CEE Fellow, Fall 2020
Hearing Heat listens to histories of listening to cicadas in Papua New Guinea, Japan, and Greece. Through a swelling intensification of intermedial recontextualizations, cicadas are amplified as a companion species thermosonic technology that bears ongoing witness to “the climate of history” in anthropocene atrocities ranging from rainforest destruction to nuclear escalation to precarious heat waves.  Read More...

FALL 2020 EVENTS

Memorializing otherwise

Ken Lum + Gabrielle Goliath + Deborah Anzinger
During our free and public November Third Thursday event, "Memorializing Otherwise" we brought together Ken Lum, Gabrielle Goliath, and Deborah Anzinger to discuss multimodal ethnographic memorialization projects. Gabrielle Goliath discussed her project, "Elegy 7," which is available for viewing here.

 Is it possible to publicly narrate the past, and document the present, in ways that move beyond permanence and monumentalization? What would it mean to think in terms of materiality not in relation to landscape but instead in terms of embodiment?

PANDEMIC PEDAGOGIES

John J. Jackson + Sharon Hayes + Jasmine Johnsn +  Amitanshu Das
On October 15th, scholars, students, and members of the public joined together for our  October Third Thursday gathering of the semester. We were privileged to discuss the course adjustments made in light of the pandemic, and lessons that CEE-Affiliated Faculty, John J. Jackson, Sharon Hayes, Jasmine Johnson, and Amitanshu Das have learned from them. Keep Reading...

FALL FELLOWS

DR. CHRISTINA KNIGHT

Christina Knight is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at Haverford College. Before joining the Haverford faculty, she was a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow at Bowdoin College as well as a Ford Foundation Diversity Fellow. Knight’s work examines the connection between embodied practices and identity, the relationship between race and the visual field, and the queer imaginary.  Keep reading...

DR. STEVEN FELD

Steven Feld, Senior Scholar at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fé, New Mexico, is a filmmaker/photographer, sound artist/musician, and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of New Mexico. After studies in music, film, and photography, he received the Ph.D in Anthropological Linguistics at Indiana University in 1979. From 1976 he began a research project in the Bosavi rainforest of Papua New Guinea. 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

 INTRODUCING NEW AFFILIATED FACULTY oF 2020

KRYSTAL STRONG

Assistant Professor of Education Literacy, Culture, and International Education

JASMINE E JOHNSON

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies

TOORJO GHOSE

Assistant Professor of Social Policy and Practice

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