Symposium 2012 - Saturday, May 12th to Tuesday, May 15th at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen

Programme

12.05.12 afternoon (13.30-17.00)
(selected films of the Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival on Participaotry Video and Participatory Cinema) see festival programme
 

film screenings

13.05.12 morning (10.00-12.30)
(work in progress, film excerpts from the projects to be discussed)
 

film screenings

  Martin Gruber
Liparu Lyetu – Our Life (32 min, Germany 2011, English subtitles)
  Patricia Ferreira, Ariel Duarte Ortega
Bicicles of Nhanderu, Mbya-Guarani (45 min, Brazil 2011, English subtitles)
  InsightShare
Local Food of Nongtraw Village (12 min, North West India 2011, English subtitles)

13.05.12 afternoon (14:00-18.00)
 

Participatory Cinema / Shared Cinema Anthropology (Theory and Method)

  Andreas Ackermann
Keynote: From Methodological Asceticism to Methodological Ecstasis - The Participatory Cinema of David and Judith MacDougall
 

Break

  Dirk Njiland
Keynote: Jean Rouch, 'ciné-trance' and 'anthropologie partagée' (Shared Anthropology)
 

Break

 

Panel discussion

  Rolf Husmann
Chair
  Adrian Strong
Discussant: Participatory Demythologization and the Ethnographic Legacy of John Marshall
  Paul Wolffram
Discussant: Creative Engagement: Performance Based Participatory Cinema
  Rolf Husmann
Moderation
14.05.12 morning (10.00-13.00)
 

Participatory Cinema / Shared Cinema Anthropology in Praxis

  Mihai Andrei Leaha
Participatory Cinema: Exploring Forms of Anthropological Knowledge
  Christos Varvantakis
Discussant: Review
 

Break

  Kieran Hanson
Shooting Freetown: Shared Anthropology & Collaborative Media in Urban Sierra Leone http://www.shootingfreetown.co.uk/
  Arjang Omrani
Discussant: Review
 

Break

  Jennifer Deger
Shared Vision and Creativity: the Participatory Ontology of Christmas Birrimbirr (Australia)
  Simone Pfeifer
Discussant: Review
  Peter I. Crawford
Chair
14.05.12 afternoon (14:30-18.00)
 

Participatory Video (Theory and Method)

 

Anna Colom
Keynote: Participatory Video and Empowerment: The Role of Participatory Video in Enhancing the Political Capability of Grass-roots Communities in Participatory Development

 

Break

  Sara Asadullah
Keynote: Mistakes Are Great! Experiential Learning and Reflection with Participatory Video http://insightshare.org/

 

Break

 

Panel discussion

  Mirjam Leuze / Lisa Glahn
Discussant: Who is Telling Whose Story How and Why - Participatory Video Between Fiction and Documentary http://www.myview-video.de/blog/?page_id=35

  Michael Schönhuth
Discussant
15.05.12 morning (10.00-12.30)
 

Participatory Video in Praxis

  Martin Gruber
Mediating Cultures: Participatory Ethnographic Filmmaking in Applied Contexts (Namibia)
  Bata Diallo
Discussant
  Break
  Kevin Thompson / Sang Putu Kaler Surata
Next Step for Participatory Video: Taking the Message to Broader Ranging Exchange Platforms (Indonesia)
  Monika Sørensen
Discussant: Review
 

Break

  Ella Pugliese, Nou Va
We Want (U) To Know http://www.we-want-u-to-know.com

  Caroline Bennett
Discussant: Review
  Anna Seegers-Krückeberg
Chair
15.05.12 afternoon (14:00-17:00)
 

Community Based Video

  Lindsey Merrison / Hnin Ei Hlaing
Filming the Real in Myanmar (Yangon Film School) http://yangonfilmschool.org/

  Melanie Langpap
Discussant: Review
 

Break

  Vincent Carelli
Video in the Villages: An Intercultural Cinema http://www.videonasaldeias.org.br/
  Marleen Folkerts
Discussant: Review
 

Break

  Matthias Kopp
Terror, Territory and Ethnic Television - Kankuama TV in Colombia
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,8120,00.html
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,12137,00.html

  Sonja Schenkel
Discussant: Review
  Florian Walter
Chair
 

Final Discussion

  Beate Engelbrecht
Chair