Tag: Art, Literature and Poetry
Haidy Geismar , November 29th, 2019
Via Haidy Geismar, UCL Anthropology and Chair of the RAI Photography Committee Sfakian man Manousos Kaftanis is being photographed by a passing traveller at a kiosk in…
Haidy Geismar , January 22nd, 2018
Annamaria Dall’Anese – PhD Anthropology Lloyd Coleman on How He Has Music at His Fingertips Anthropology’s aim is to see the world through the native’s…
Haidy Geismar , February 3rd, 2017
Jamie Cross, University of Edinburgh Call for Contributions (max 300 words) In: Cultural Anthropology / Theorizing the Contemporary Our lives with electric things are positively charged with meanin…
Haidy Geismar , January 30th, 2017
Haidy Geismar, UCL Anthropology and Chair of the R.A.I Photo Committee On December 8, 2016, the Photography Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute convened its first Photo Salon….
Haidy Geismar , January 12th, 2017
Miranda Marcus, UCL Digital Anthropology How do we display data in a way that is meaningful? This is the question that has been posed by Dr Robin Carhart-Harris…
Haidy Geismar , November 4th, 2016
Dr. Cathrine Bublatzky, Anthropologist, Heidelberg University Recently I visited the exhibition You can’t please them all – a retrospective of modern Indian painter Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003) at…
Material World , September 13th, 2016
Joel Cahen (2012, revised 2016) With our present day awareness, the arts as we have known them up to now appear to us in general to be fakes…
Haidy Geismar , August 31st, 2016
Press release: Duration: September 16, 2016 – January 16, 2017 Opening: Thursday, September 15, 7 p.m. Milanese Mosaic Pastes, Cabinet of Factory Products, c. 1800, Collection T…
Haidy Geismar , August 6th, 2016
Via The Institute of Making Zoe Laughlin of UCL’s Institute of Making has a new podcast, Things That Make Us. Following the model of Desert Island Discs, each week, Laughlin interviews…
Haidy Geismar , June 16th, 2016
Via Gabriela Nicolescu, Goldsmiths College Thursday 23 June 2016 06:30pm – 08:30pm, Film screening and discussion Care on Display Care on Display brings together documentary and artistic fi…
Haidy Geismar , May 31st, 2016
Adam Drazin, UCL Anthropology How, when and why do people start to see something as”broken”? Do objects around the home just have two states, broken and working, or…
Haidy Geismar , May 23rd, 2016
Via Gabriela Nicolescu, Goldsmiths Exhibition organised by the Goldsmith’sDepartment of Anthropology Venue: Weston Atrium, Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths Private View: 24th May, 17.30 Dates: …
Haidy Geismar , March 1st, 2016
Via Sandra Rozental, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa, Mexico City The Absent Stone (2013) is a documentary film that combines contemporary ethnographic filmmaking, animation and a wide …
Haidy Geismar , January 21st, 2016
Christopher Pinney, UCL Anthropology I recently came across M.N. Srinivas’ observation that his enthusiastic engagement with photography, during his fieldwork in Mysore in the late 1940s, earned him…
Haidy Geismar , September 18th, 2015
David Jeevendrampillai, UCL Anthropology Image 1: The Story of Seething Exhibition. Jan – May 2015. UCL Anthropology (Photo Credit: Timothy Carroll). UCL promotes itself as a leading global…
Haidy Geismar , May 6th, 2015
Christopher Tilley, Department of Anthropology, University College London (c.tilley@ucl.ac.uk) Robert Macfarlane Landmarks (2015) London: Hamish Hamilton, 387pp. £20.00 rrp This is the fifth bo…