Visual Anthropology and the City
Symposium at RAI and UCL, London
London, RAI and UCL, October 14 – 15, 2016
Registration deadline: Oct 9, 2016
‘Visual Anthropology and the City’ is a two-day-symposium at Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) and UCL Institute of Archaeology,
Heritage Studies, which brings together anthropologists, filmmakers and artists. Urban anthropology has fascinated journalists, photographers
and policy makers with the emergence of the Chicago School since the 1920s. Ethnography and long-term research facilitated deeper insights
into the everyday lives of urban neighborhoods that were often associated with violence, crime and housing problems. Cinema and
photography have also since their inception engaged with the urban, and their development is deeply entwined with that of the modern
metropolis. We are interested in visual research that looks at modernity, subcultures, non-western cities, regeneration, urban elites,
domestic space, social movements and urban architecture. In this symposium we will discuss films, photography and writings on the
subject from both academic and practitioners’ perspectives. Please find the programme enclosed. Registration is essential as places are
limited: barbara.knorpp@gmail.com
PROGRAMME
Friday, 14th October 2016
Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI)
50 Fitzroy St, London W1T 5BT (next to French Theatre Bookshop)
13.00
Registration + Welcome
Session 1: London
14.00
Anthony Iles
Inventory: Flesh and Stone
14.20
Anna Viola Sborgi
“This was our home”: community and urban regeneration in moving image representations of East London
14.40
Haim Bresheeth
Convivencia in Turnpike Lane
15.00
Caterina Sartori London Housing crisis on film
15.40
Coffee break
Session 2: Shifting Identities
16.10
David Kendall
Disappearing into Night
16.30
Ektoras Arkomanis
Work / Memories of Work
17.00
Lana Askari
Lost in Transition: A Visual Ethnography on Imagining Future, Planning and the State in Iraqi Kurdistan
18.00
Wine reception
Saturday, 15 October 2016
Institute of Archaeology, Heritage Studies,
31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, Lecture Theatre G6LT
Session 3: Visual Representations of city life in art and film
10.00
Jessica O’Donnell
Francis Bacon and the Street
10.20
Ivan Chuviliaev
Anthropology and mythology: The image of St Petersburg in Soviet movies
10.40
Katarzyna Puzon
Visualising Beirut
11.00
Burcu Bakö
The cinematic representation of impact of neoliberal urban policies in
Istanbul
12.00
Lunch
Session 4: Urban Regeneration
13.00
Ioanna Manoussaki-Adamopoulou and Liev Cherry
Mining Detroit
13.20
Angela Torresan
Fear and desire: Filmed conversation of gentrification in a Rio de
Janeiro favela
13.50
Michael Dieminger
Centre of the centre
15.00
Coffee Break
Session 5: New methodologies
15.30
Susan Hansen and Danny Flynn
Longitudinal photo-documentation: recording urban dialogue
15.20
Camilla Morelli
Forest hunters to slum dwellers: the lives and futures of migrant indigenous youth in urban Amazonia
16.10
Emiliano Esposito
Outcasts from the past
16.30
Maria Salaru The Block
Organisers
Dr Barbara Knorpp (Anthropologist, UCL): barbara.knorpp@gmail.com
Caterina Sartori (RAI Film Officer): film@therai.org.uk
Lecturer, Ph.D. Position/Assistantship, and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Urban Studies
Urban Studies at the University of Basel is rooted in disciplinary approaches of architecture, geography, anthropology, social and political theory, and history, and oriented towards global Southern and postcolonial questions. With a regional focus on Africa, Europe,...