March 10 – 14, 2004
International Conference on Visual Anthropology
“Opening up to the Future”
Tuesday, March 09th
18:30 - 20:00
Banquet
Haiyi Bingguan
2d floor
20:30 -
Film Screenings
Ethnology
Museum
Arrival conference participants
Welcome addresses:
Dr. Rolf Husmann, CVA Chairperson “The Network of the
Commission On Visual Anthropology (CVA) - Relevance For China”
Wu Song, President Yunnan University
Prof. Lin Chaomin, Vice-Director EAIVA
Prof. Yin Shaoting, Yunnan University, Dean Department of
Anthropology
Zhang Jianghua, Chinese Association of Visual Anthropology
Dr. Frode Storaas, Gen. Sec. Nordic Anthropological Film
Association (NAFA)
In Memoriam Jean Rouch
Dr. Rolf Husmann, IWF Media and Knowledge, Goettingen
“Filmed Memories: Raymond Firth on Fei Xiaotong”, 20 minutes
Wednesday, March 10th
09:30 -10:30
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 14:30
14:30 - 16:30
Conference
opening
Science Hall, 2d Fl
coffee break
Panel 1
Key-note address:
Prof. Dr. Barbara Keifenheim, Visual Anthropology, EuropaUniversity Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder
Science Hall, 2d Fl
Chair: Fan Zhiping, Yunnan TV
Presentations:
Prof. Dr. Barbara Keifenheim, Visual Anthropology, EuropaUniversity Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder
“Lessons from Teaching Visual Anthropology at the EAIVA, China”
Lunch
Panel 1
Science Hall, 2d Fl
16:30 - 17:00
17:00 - 18:00
coffee break
Panel 1
Science Hall, 2d Fl
The Future of Teaching Visual Anthropology
The Future of Teaching Visual Anthropology
Chair: Dr. Rolf Husmann, CVA Chairperson
Presentations:
Dr. Frode Storaas, University of Bergen, Dept. of Anthropology,
Norway, Gen. Sec. NAFA
“Fieldwork on screen” and “Going for Mackerel”, 27 minutes
Ai Juhong, PhD candidate, Central University for the Minorities,
Ethnology Dept., Beijing
“Anthropological Film’s explanatory function of Culture – The Future
of Visual Anthropology and Anthropological Film”
Peter I. Crawford, Associate Professor at the Visual Anthropology
Program, University of Tromsø
“The Arctic melting pot - negotiating the visual in Tromsø”
and “Living With Gods”, 30 minutes
The Future of Teaching Visual Anthropology
Chair: Prof. Zhuang Kongshao, The People’s University, Beijing
Presentations:
Prof. Ray Jiing Institute of Sound and Image Studies in
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Documentary, Tainan National College of the Arts
“Documentary Filmmaking as Critical Pedagogy”
18:30 - 19:30
20:00 -
Dinner
Film Screenings
Ethnology
Museum
By students from the Institute of Sound and Image Studies in
Documentary, Tainan National College of the Arts, Taiwan and
The East Asia Institute of Visual Anthropology, Yunnan University
Thursday, March 11th
09:30 -10:30
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Panel 2
Theoretical issues in Visual Anthropology
Science Hall, 2d Fl
Chair: Prof. Ray Jiing Institute of Sound and Image Studies in
Documentary, Tainan National College of the Arts
Presentations:
Tai-li Hu, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taibei
“Visual Performance in Paiwan”
coffee break
Panel 2
Science Hall, 2d Fl
12:00 - 14:30
14.30 - 16.30
Lunch
Panel 2
Science Hall, 2d Fl
16:30 - 17:00
17:00 - 18:00
coffee break
Panel 2
Science Hall, 2d Fl
18:30 - 19:30
20:00 -
Dinner
Film Screenings
Ethnology
Museum
Theoretical issues in Visual Anthropology
Chair: Prof. Cai Jiaqi, Yunnan Minority University
Presentations:
Prof. Deng Qiyao, Zhongshan University, Department of
Anthropology, Guangzhou
“The Message of Images and Visual Expression”
Chen Xueli, Dept. of Anthropology, Yunnan University
“The Concept of Time in Ethnographic Film”
Theoretical issues in Visual Anthropology
Chair: Dr. Peter I. Crawford, Associate Professor at the Visual
Anthropology Program, University of Tromsø
Presentations:
Tamar Gordon, PhD, Associate Professor of Anthropology and
EMAC (Electronic Media Arts and Communication), Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
"Visualizing Globalization", 70 minutes + 10
Joel Kuipers, Dept. of Anthropology, George Washington
University
"Visual inscription of verbal performance in the eastern Indonesian
island of Sumba: 1920-2000"
Theoretical issues in Visual Anthropology
Chair: Prof. Asen Balikci
Presentations:
David Blundell, National Chengchi University and Academia Sinica,
“Visual Anthropology: Filming by the Language of Aesthetics and
Ethics in Sri Lanka”
David Blundell
“The Life History of Ven Hanchapola Gnanavansa Thero, A Buddhist
Headmonk in Sri Lanka”, 52 minutes
Lue Xinyu, Fudan University
“Tiexi District”, 30 minutes
Thanongsone Sibounheuang, Ministry of Information and
Culture, Vientiane "Lao Textiles”, 30 minutes
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Friday, March 12th
09:00 - 12:00
09:00 -12:00
Panel 3 A
Indigenous filmmaking
Ethnology
Museum, 2d Fl
Chair: Dr. Rolf Husmann, CVA Chairperson
Presentations:
Asen Balikci, University of Montreal, Canada
“Teaching Local People to Film Local Cultures”, 30 minutes +
Mr. Nguyen Truong Giang, Vietnam Museum of Ethnology,
Researcher Audio Video Department, Hanoi
“Giá Festival – changes and continuity”
Peter I. Crawford, Associate Professor at the Visual Anthropology
Program, University of Tromsø
“ 'Big men' and the representation of local communities on film.
Some practical and theoretical implications based on the Reef
Islands Ethnographic Film Project”
Multi-Media Projects and Museums
Panel 4
Ethnology
Museum, 3d Fl
Chair: Prof. Yin Shaoting, Yunnan University, Dean Department of
Anthropology, Director Ethnological Museum
Presentations:
Kevin Charles Kettle, program director, SPAFA-SEAMEO, Bangkok
Mr. Thanongsone Sibounheuang, Head of Information Center,
Institute for Cultural Research, Ministry of Information and Culture,
Vientiane
Prof. Jacques Lemoine, Institute of Cultural Research, Ministry of
Information and Culture, Vientiane
“Visual Anthropology Saved into an Ethnographic Data Bank”
12:00 - 14:30
14:30 - 18:00
Lunch
Panel 3 B
Ethnology
Museum, 2d Fl
14:30 - 18:00
Panel 5
Ethnology
Museum, 3d Fl
Indigenous filmmaking
Chair: Guo Jing, Yunnan University, Institute of Development
Studies
Presentations:
Yang Guanghai, CASS, Institute of Ethnology, Beijing
“Ethnographic Film Going Native”
Zhang Jianghua (CAVA)
“The State of Visual Anthropology – an impression”
Cai Jiaqi, Yunnan University for the Minorities, Kunming
“Reconstruction in Ethnographic Film”
Prof. Song Jie, Yunnan Academy of Fine Art, Dean Department of
Film and TV
“Utilization of audio-visual language in documentary filmmaking”
Prof. Zhou Guangda, Guangxi Institute for the Minorities
“The basic tasks of modern visual ethnography”
Still Photography in VA
Chair: Tai-li Hu, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taibei
Presentations:
Mrs. Vo Mai Phuong, Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Researcher
North Mountainous Department, Hanoi
“Preserving Traditional Value Of Craft Weaving With Photo Voice
Method”
Jenny Chio, graduate student in Anthropology at the University of
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California, Berkeley
“Too Close to Home: Martin Parr and the Ambivalent Documentary
Image”
18:30 - 19:30
20:00 -
Dinner
Film Screenings
Ethnology
Museum, 2d Fl
20:00 -
Film Screenings
Ethnology
Museum, 3d Fl
Tan Leshui, Yunnan TV, Kunming
“Manchunman, a Thai Village”, 60 minutes
Cao Wei, Yunnan TV, Kunming
“Who be the First in Spring Plough”, English version, 50 minutes
Xu Dehua “The Origins of Qinghai’s Tuomao people”, 45 minutes
Qiao Dandeer “Mongolian Food”, 30 minutes
Liu Shaojin “Guanxi Opera”, 94 minutes
Saturday, March 13th
09.00 - 12.00
Panel 6
Greater Mekong
Subregion
Ethnology
Museum, 2d Fl
09:00 - 12:00
Panel 7
Greater Mekong
Subregion
Ethnology
Museum, 3d Fl
12:00 - 14:30
14:30 - 18:00
Lunch
Ethnology
Museum and
Science Hall
18:30 - 19:30
20:00
Dinner
Film Screenings
Ethnology
Museum, 2d Fl
Visual vs. non-visual Media
Chair: Dr. Heather Peters, UNESCO Cultural Division, Bangkok
Presentations:
Wang Qinghua, YASS, Institute of Ethnology, Kunming
“Ethnographic filmmaking in Yunnan”
Jakhadte, Lahu researcher, Chiangrai
“Differences of being Lahu, a comparison between Chinese, Thai
and Laotian Lahu”
Yang Zaipeng, Jingpo coordinator, Yunnan Guangbo Diantai
“Media by and for a Jingpo community”
Dr. David A. Feingold and Dr. Heather Peters, anthropologists
and consultants in the Culture Unit, UNESCO, Bangkok,
"Sound and Fury: indigenous language radio and the fight against
HIV/AIDS".
Media and Teaching
Chair: Prof. Jaqcues Lemoines, Institute for Cultural Research,
Ministry of Information and Culture, Laos
Presentations:
Zhuang Kongshao, Central University for the Minorities, Ethnology
Dept., Beijing
“Exploring the Usefulness of Visual Anthropology”
Prof. Zhou Chuanji, Yunnan Academy of Fine Art, Department of
Film and TV
“From class teaching - 1 to 1 teaching”
Guo Jing, Yunnan University, Institute of Development Studies
“Explorations in Community Visual Education”
Ly Daravuth, Reyum Institute of Arts and Culture, Phnom Penh
Mr. Som Ratana, faculty member of the Cambodia Communication
Institute, Royal University of Phnom Penh
Separate Panel Meetings - Discussion cont.
Future of Teaching Visual Anthropology, Multi-Media Projects and
Museums, Indigenous filmmaking , Still Photography in VA, Visual
vs. non-visual Media , Media and Teaching
Erica Barbiani, EureX Urban Visual Sociology Lab
“Bury Me Under The Tulsi Plant”, 25 minutes
Xu Jieshun, Guangxi University of the Nationalities
“A Kejia Medium”
Jamlong Saiyot, AsiaWorks Television- Bangkok
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20:00
Ethnology
Museum, 3d Fl
“Mercy – med-dah”, 52 minutes
Liu Dacheng, “An Long”, 60minutes
Liu Wei “Zai Shan Zou Dong de Di Fang” 15min and a short report
Zhou Xingmao “Zhui Niu” 30minutes
Liu Dacheng “Huan Shi Jie Yi Pian Jing Tu” 30minutes
Sunday, March 14th
09:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Science Hall, 2d Fl
Coffee break
Ethnology
Museum
13:00
Farewell Lunch
Presentation of Panel Conclusions and Follow-up Activities
Closing and Official Hand-over Ceremony EAIVA
Rolf Husmann, CVA Chairperson
Prof. Gao Fayuan, CP Commission, Yunnan University
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