Here is another sample of the work my students are producing for Beyond Observational Cinema, the course I just finished teaching for the MA in Visual Anthropology. Siôn Marshall-Waters and Jan-Holger Hennies went to the Scottish island of Skye and…
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Part of the documentary course Beyond Observational Cinema, which I teach in the second semester of the MA in Visual Anthropology, is a lecture on essay films. Students can then choose this form, among many others, for their assessed film…
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Time for the students of our MA in Visual Anthropology to graduate. Join us at the screening of their documentary films and exhibition of their multimedia works. The event, called Cric? Crac!, is a unique opportunity to witness our…
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During the several days drive from my home in Minnesota to my primary fieldwork base in New York, I stopped for an evening’s rest in Cleveland, Ohio. Police cars and barricades lined the city’s streets – remnants of the day’s…
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The beginning of July marks the end of the second term at Austrian universities, which means that the main part of my fieldwork has already ended. Up until now I attended twelve events organised by Christian student societies (several of…
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This summer, I went back to my hometown of Smederevo, a small town in Serbia 40 kilometres away from the capital city of Belgrade, in order to explore the everyday lives of Serbian youth and the challenges that they face…
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