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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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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Documentary photographer Patrick Sutherland will be our guest for the Visual Dialogues seminar series on Tuesday 17 February 2015, from 6 to 8pm in University place 2.218. Sutherland, who is professor of Photography and Anthropology at the University of the…
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Jodrell Bank Calling – Abandon Normal Devices/BFI This film was commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices as a prelude to their outdoor screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey at Jodrell Bank. Our film reimagines an interview with Bernard Lovell conducted by…
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