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The Right Man for the Job

By Posted in - MA & Photography on September 24th, 2015 0 Comments

This summer, I returned to my hometown for fieldwork in a Chinese hospital. The hospital accepted me as an “informal trainee”, which means I could observe all the healing and teaching activities taking place. Images © Zhouyi Jiang Recently my…

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Day 12 around Teulada

By Posted in - MA on September 21st, 2015 0 Comments

Day 12 around Teulada, extreme south of Sardinia, Italy. Here, I am closer to Africa than Europe. You can tell from the birds that I have never seen wild before in my country, like hummingbirds, flamingos and storks. The heat…

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Screening of The Bengali Detective

By Posted in - News & Video on June 25th, 2015 0 Comments

We are hosting a screening of the Grierson award winning documentary feature The Bengali Detective – an unprecedented look at modern India through the prism of crime. All welcome in John Casken Theatre, 4pm Friday 26th of June. Director Phil…

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GCVA films at the RAI Film Festival

By Posted in - News on April 21st, 2015 0 Comments

The Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology will screen three documentary films in competition at the Royal Anthropological Institute’s International Festival of Ethnographic Film from 16 to 19 June 2015. Two student films from our Masters in Visual Anthropology are running…

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In Conversation with Piotr Kardas

By Posted in - News on March 9th, 2015 0 Comments

For the series Visual Dialogues, we are proud to host an evening on the Polish Festival of Animation O!PLA. On Thursday 12th of March in the John Casken lecture theatre, Martin Harris building a the University of Manchester, from 6…

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