SCMP News: March 2008

• Joint Seminars: Warawara and Anthropology over two weeks
• Congratulations to our Screen Production student winners at the 2008 Shepparton Shorts Screen Festival
• Anthropology Conference 'See: Feel: Know: New Ethnographies of the Visual', 23rd May 2008

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Congratulations to our Screen Production student winners at the 2008 Shepparton Shorts Screen Festival

Congratulations to our Screen Production student winners at the 2008 Shepparton Shorts Screen Festival. They were:

• Aaron McLisky's 'Killer' made in MAS313 won BEST FILM award.
• Petrice Henderson's 'Oranssi' made in MAS212 won BEST NEW STUDENT FILMMAKER award.
• Kate Witchard's 'Ribbon Dancer' made in MAS212 received a SPECIAL MENTION.
• Dean Ginsburg's 'Domestic Violence' received a SPECIAL MENTION.

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Anthropology Conference 'See: Feel: Know: New Ethnographies of the Visual', 23rd May 2008

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How do visual experiences enables us to encounter culture and difference differently? What new possibilities and research and experimentation do digital visual technologies enable, if not demand?

What scope is emerging for scholarly work that engages visual practices in the field? How might working with the visual recast questions about the politics of identity, knowledge and the ethics of representation? How can aesthetics be recast as an arena of contemporary social politics?

This one-day workshop will focus on new methodologies, epistemologies and practices in visual culture research. It will explore the intertwined practical and theoretical issues that arise when research takes the visual on its own terms. No longer simply illustrative or evidentiary no longer secondary to the real work of politics, history or culture the visual is recognised to convey understandings and mediate encounters that are of a profoundly different order to ethnographies that emerge from processes of writing-up.

The workshop will bring together a mix of upcoming and established scholars who are working in a variety of cultural contexts with film, television, photography, multimedia, the production of art or exhibitions; projects where the visual functions not simply as data or a subject for written analysis, but as a means to refigure conventional understandings of - and possibilities for - ethnography and anthropology

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Joint Seminars: Warawara and Anthropology over two weeks

Theme: On Collaboration in Indigenous Contexts

Warawara and Anthropology are very pleased to announce that they are convening two joint seminars.

Topic under discussion: In an institutional research environment that increasinglyemphasises and rewards projects that claim a collaborative methodology, we want to take time to unpack a concept that is far more problematic than generally acknowledged. To this end we have invited speakers working with Indigenous people in a range of disciplines and geographical locations within Australia to draw from their own research experiences to considerwhat and how collaboration means in practice. What are the challenges, rewards and limits of collaboration? How might collaboration lead to new kinds of outcomes and experiences for both parties? What kinds of ethical, ontological and epistemological issues does collaboration raise? Can collaborative projects actually and successfully re-cast power relations as they play out in a research environment in a manner that is intrinsic to researching Indigenous societies and issues? Indeed, is true, equitable and mutually satisfactory collaboration ever really possible in Indigenous studies?