Clothing childhood, fashioning society: Children’s clothing in Britain in the 20th Century 17-18 January 2008 at the Foundling Museum, London WC1 2008 PASOLD RESEARCH FUND CONFERENCE — In association with the Department of Anthropology, University College London — With the London College of Fashion Conference Organiser: Dr Kaori O’Connor, UCLContinue Reading
March 23, 2007, 1-7PM, 612 Schermerhorn, Columbia University »A Workshop with: Lila Abu-Lughod, Patricia Dailey, Marianne Hirsch, Andreas Huyssen, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Nancy K. Miller, Valerie Smith, Silvia Spitta, Leo Spitzer and Kate Stanley »And Featuring Artist Presentations: Lorie Novak “Reverb”, Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock “Things Matter: Tracing Objects acrossContinue Reading
Chris Pinney of UCL informs us at MaterialWorld that Tasveer Ghar has announced a short-term fellowship for collecting and documenting popular visual arts in South Asia. The focus is on “Gender, Nation and Spaces for the Everyday.” Tasveer Ghar is a transnational virtual home for collecting, digitizing, and documenting variousContinue Reading
The painter mayor who orchestrated the highly coloured coating of grey post communist buildings in Tirana says in Anri Sala’s film ‘Dammi I Colore’; ‘here colours replace the organs (of the city) whereas in a city that developed naturally colours would be like a dress or a lipstick’. This filmContinue Reading
Sensory worlds – Sensory methods University of Manchester: June 30- July 2 2007 In combination with 10th Royal Anthropological Institute International Festival of Ethnographic Film Convenors: Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright Repeated calls for experimentation in anthropological representation alongside the ‘anthropology of the senses’ and the ‘ethnographic turn’ in theContinue Reading
19 – 23 July 2007, Leeds, United Kingdom Still from the film Cannibal Tours, by Dennis O’Rourke, http://www.cameraworklimited.com/read/2419623803.html Whatever the prophecies of ‘virtual’ reality, we inhabit and move through the ‘real’ world of objects. Though tourism and travel are bound to concepts of time and space, they are also rootedContinue Reading
University of Calgary Free Exchange Graduate Conference 16-18 March 2007 For more information, please visit Free Exchange at www.english.ucalgary.ca “The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating evenContinue Reading
Announcing a session at the forthcoming Association for Social Anthropology of Oceania, Charlottesville, Virginia, February 20 – 24, 2006. Engaging with the recent work emerging out of anthropology’s material turn, participants in this session seek to understand the ways in which the objects people make, make them (Miller 2005: 38)Continue Reading
Welcome to the website of 2007 International Symposium on the Arts in Society. Held mid way between the annual International Conference on the Arts in Society (held in 2006 in conjunction with the Edinburgh Festivals), we will work in collaboration with New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, andContinue Reading
Daniel Miller, UCL On Thursday 7th December a book launch was held for a new volume Thinking Through Things. Edited by A Henare, M Holbraad and S Wastell and published by Routledge. The book is clearly of interest to anyone in material culture studies. The primary theme is concerned withContinue Reading
Barbara Kirschenblatt Gimblett, NYU Mitzvah Kinder figurines, right to left: Malkeleh, Moishy, Totty (Father), Mommy, and Baby Chaim. “The ‘Mitzvah Kinder’ has been designed to represent a Yiddishe family in the world of children’s play and imagination. Our charming characters made of soft lightweight rubber, makes them safe, durable andContinue Reading