Module 1: Introduction   30 November 2018 13.00 – 16.30
 
• Introduction to the course. • 3x 30 min lectures by visual anthropologists Karen Waltorp, Christian Suhr and Christian Vium. • Discussion of texts read in preparation for course. • Presentation of hands-on exercises to students: photo elicitation & making a (video) portrait.
 Primary Readings Waltorp, K.; Vium, C. & Suhr, C. 2017. Witnessing and Creating the World Audio-Visually: Aesthetics, Politics, Anthropology. Visuel Arkivering 10:46-51.
 
Madden, R. 2010. Looking at People: Observations and Images. 96-114 in Madden, R. Being Ethnographic: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Ethnography. London: SAGE. 
 
Cox, R., Irving, A. and Wright, C. 2016. Introduction: the sense of the senses. 1- 19 in Cox, R., A. Irving and C. Wright (eds.) Beyond text? Critical practices and sensory anthropology. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
 
Mead, M. and Bateson, G. 1977. On the Use of the Camera in Anthropology. Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication 4(2):78-80. 
 Supplementary Readings MacDougall, D. 1997. The Visual in Anthropology. 276-295 in Banks, M. and Morphy, H. (eds.) Rethinking visual anthropology. New Haven: Yale University Press. 
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Module 2: On-line module with examples of visual anthropological approaches 
 
• 4 blended learning video lectures + related readings. • Students continue working on the exercises presented in module 1.  • Students prepare a short (2-page) paper on ideas on how to include audio-visual components in their own research projects • No physical lectures during this module.
 Primary Readings Pink, S. 2007. Walking with video. Visual Studies, 22(3):240-252.
 
Buckley, L. 2014. ‘Photography and Photo-Elicitation after Colonialism’ Cultural Anthropology 29(4):720-743. 
 Supplementary Readings Vium, C. 2018. Temporal Dialogues: Collaborative Photographic Re-enactments as a Form of Cultural Critique. Journal of Visual Anthropology 31(4-5):355-375.
 
Waltorp, K. 2018. Intimacy, concealment and unconscious optics : Filmmaking with young Muslim women in Copenhagen. Journal of Visual Anthropology 31(4-5):394-407.
 
Richard, V. M. and Lahman, M. K. E. 2015. Photo-elicitation: reflexivity on method, analysis, and graphic portraits. International Journal of Research & Method in Education. 38(1):322).
 
Pink, S., Horst, H., Postill, J., Hjorth, L., Lew is, T. and Tacchi, J. 2016. Digital Ethnography. Principles and Practice. Los Angeles and London: Sage: 1-18.
 
 
 
Module 3 : Presentation of student exercises from module 1 + 2 and discussions 13 December 2018 10.00-15.00
 
• Students present their work and we discuss it on class with reference to texts read by students in preparation for the course.  • There are no readings for this module.
 
 
 
Module 4: Editing & visual sorting  14 December 2018 09.00-12.00
 
• Supervision on audio-visual and collaborative aspects in (your) research design based on the individual papers produced as part of module 2. • Lecture on editing, sequencing and sorting (audio-visual) material.