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Konger FC: A photographic exhibition
The exhibition features images by Tse Hei Long, Jolynna Sinanan and Alastair Lomas and highlights the ways in which the Hong Kong diaspora in Manchester have built their lives through the Konger FC and Konger Café. It was the first event from the collaboration between Jolynna Sinanan and David Stroup (Department of Politics, University of Manchester).
Co-Creative MiND: Inner Lifeworlds of MND
Congratulations to Professor Andrew Irving (GCVA), Dr Michael Atkins (aka Cheddar Gorgeous, GCVA MAVA 2007, PhD 2015) and Professor Steve Pettifer (Computer Science) on their Wellcome Discovery Award, which will establish the world’s first ethnographic and participatory investigation into the interior lifeworlds of Motor Neurone Disease (MND).
Making a Difference Award for Cucusonic
We are pleased to announce that the Cucusonic project won one of the University of Manchester’s ‘Making a Difference’ awards.
Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography
We collaborate with Manchester University Press on a new exciting book series called Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography. The series aims to provide a new forum for authors and practitioners from across the digital humanities and social sciences to explore the rapidly developing opportunities offered by visual, acoustic and textual media for generating ethnographic understandings of social, cultural and political life.
Paul Henley: Festival International Jean Rouch
We are pleased to announce that Paul Henley, founder of the GCVA, has been assigned a number of leading roles in the forthcoming Festival International Jean Rouch, which is celebrating Rouch's centenary.
Paul Stoller on the Future of Ethnographic Writing
The full video of Paul Stoller's lecture "The Burden of Writing the Sorcerer's Burden: Ethnography, Fiction and the Future of Anthropological Expression," which he delivered on 19 April 2016 as part of his visiting Simon professorship in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester.
The Man who almost Killed Himself
The Man who almost Killed Himself is a new play and multi-media experience premiering at The Edinburgh Festival, on the BBC and at ODEON Cinemas around the country. A collaboration between theatre director Josh Azouz and Andrew Irving, the Director of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, produced by Hibrow TV.

