The symposium
PERCEIVING CHILDREN
– the Visual Anthropolgy of Childhood
was held 28.-29. August 2010 at Moesgård Museum
The symposium was a two-days symposium 28-30. August 2010 held in
conjunction with the 30th NAFA International Festival of Ethnographic Film at Moesgård Museum in Århus
Children are the future of the world we live in. If cinema and photography have poignantly captured childhood’s ideas, stereotypes, sociality and relation to other age groups, they have often idealized childhood and children from adult-centred perspectives and fantasies. If childhood is merely a cultural construction, which can be approached through a certain dose of relativism and with the help of discourse analysis, children as subjects have often been marginalized in social research, and children as social actors have produced representations that are often considered ephemeral and unachieved because of their transitory age. Moreover, many museums have had children as their primary target audience and they have often designed interesting exhibitions where children can actively take part and interact with the display, but sometimes they have applied the “child-spectator” as a model for all types of exhibitions and audiences, hence reducing the potential of intergenerational exchange and agency.
During the symposium we wanted to investigate the state of affairs around the following subjects: Children and childhood as represented in media anthropology and museums. Children perceiving and children perceived. We aimed at designing a symposium where mixed-media representations of, by or involving the active participation of children, were in focus within a larger framework of social scientific research and museology.
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Program
First day - Saturday
"Anthropology and Visual Anthropology of Childhood"
9.00 am Welcoming Address from Museum, University and/or Organizers
9.30 Opening Lecture: Christina Toren
11.00 am Lecture: Peter I. Crawford
12 o’clock Panel Presentations: Teresa Longo and Thierry Roche (chair: P. Chiozzi)
“Visual Anthropology of Childhood”
2.15pm Panel: Paolo Chiozzi (Opening Lecture: A. Gregorini)
Presentations: F.Caroti, S. Morelli, V. Melani, S. Filipponi, S. Pintus, A Schena.
5.00 pm Panel Presentations: Tove Lise Indeberg and Minamide Kazuyo (chair: Christina Toren)
6.00 pm Closing remarks
6.15 pm David MacDougall “Resilience”: Photo Exhibition. Opening cocktail aperitif.
NAFA documentary film screening
8.30pm David MacDougall: Photo exhibition “Resilience” and screening of his prize winning film "Gandhi’s Children" (2008, 185 min)
Second day - Sunday
“Crosscultural Practices in Museum and Children”
10.00 am Keynote lecture and poster: Liesbeth Ruben
11.30 Panel Presentation: Lene Birgitte Mirland, Peter Bjerregaard (chair: Ditte Seeberg)
2.00 pm Presentations: Ditte Seeberg, Roberta Bonetti and Elisa Rossignoli (chair: Trond Waage)
"Children, Youth, and Applied Media Anthropology"
4.00 pm pm Panel Presentations: Trond Waage and Ylva Nutti (chair: R. Ragazzi)
5.15 pm Panel presentations: Max Mauro and Manuela Cecotti (chair: P.I.Crawford)
6.15 pm Closing remarks
NAFA documentary film screening
8.30 pm JOHN MARSHALL tribute: Marshall’s prize winning films on Children, (courtesy of D.E.R.) presented and commented by David MacDougall, Judith MacDougall and Peter I. Crawford
Participants at the symposium
Convenor, Ditte Marie Seeberg, Anthropologist, Moesgård Museum, DK-8270 Højbjerg, Denmark.
Telephone: +45 89424552. moesds@hum.au.dk
Convenor Rossella Ragazzi (Associate professor, Tromsø University) Lars Thørings Vei 10
N-9037 Tromsø, Norway. Telephone: +47 77645578. rossella.ragazzi@uit.no
Co-convenor: Prof . Peter I. Crawford, Chair of NAFA 2010, University of Tromsø
info@intervention.dk
Co- convenor: Prof. Paolo Chiozzi, Visual Anthropologist, Università di Firenze
paolo.chiozzi@tin.it
Adjunct Professor David MacDougall, Australian National University david.macdougall@anu.edu.au
Judith Mac Dougall
Prof. Christina Toren, University of St. Andrew, U.K. christina.toren@st-andrews.ac.uk
Associate Prof. Teresa Longo, Université d’Amiens teresa.longo@wanadoo.fr
Dr. Thierry Roche, Université d’Amiens thierry.roche@wanadoo.fr
Prof. Angela Gregorini, Anthropology of Visual Communication, ANSAS Marche, Ancona
angela.gregorini@irre.marche.it
Dr. Liesbet Ruben, Curator, Tropen Museum Amsterdam l.ruben@kit.nl
Dr. Roberta Bonetti, Curator & Senior Lecturer, University of Bologna robertabonetti@yahoo.fr
Dr. Marit A. Hauan, Director, Tromsø University Museum marit.hauan@uit.no
Dr. Metje Postma, President, Commission of Visual Anthropology, CVA
POSTMAM@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Associate Prof. Trond Waage, Visual Cultural Studies in Tromsø trond.waage@uit.no
Senior Lecturer Kazuyo Minamide, St. Andrew University, Osaka kazuyom@silver.ocn.ne.jp
PhD Fellow Max Mauro, (Dublin Institute of Technology) max.mauro@dit.ie
Dr. Peter Bjerregaard, Curator at the Etnographic Collections at Moesgård Museum peter.bjerregaard@hum.au.dk
Dr. Lene Birgitte Mirland, Curator moeslbm@hum.au.dk
Dr. Manuela Cecotti, Università di Trieste CECOTTIM@libero.it
PhD Fellow Ylva Nutti, Jokkmokk Museum, Sweden
Dr. Elisa Rossignoli, Padagogue, Children Museum Verona zididi@yahoo.com
MA Fellow, Tove Lise Indeberg, University of Bergen, Norway
Dr. Federica Caroti, Psychologist and Anthropologist, Florence federica_caroti@libero.it
Antonella Schena, Historian, Librarian, MUDI Instituto degli Innocenti, Firenze
schena@istitutodeglinnocenti.it
Dr. Stefano Morelli, Photographer, Degree in Visual Anthropology, University of Florence
stoppinostefano@libero.it
Dr.. Veronica Melani, Graduate student in Visual Anthropology, University of Florence
veronicamelani@gmail.com
Dr. Stefano Filipponi, Historian, Director of the MUDI, Istituto degli Innocenti, Florence
filipponi@istitutodeglinnocenti.it
Dr. Sandro Pintus, Journalist, Visual anthropologist, MUDI Istituto degli Innocenti, Firenze
pintus@minori.it
Dr. Karen Marie Christensen, Tromsø University Museum, karen.marie.christensen@uit.no
Linda Jonsen Engberg, Anthropologist, Århus, jonsengberg@gmail.com
Jens Kirkeby, Graphic designer, Aarhus Universitet, jenskirkeby@hum.au.dk
Dr. Sally Anderson, Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitet, København, saan@dpu.dk
Monika Sørensen, blaakat@hotmail.com
PhD Fellow Tommi Mendel, Visual Anthropologist, Filmmaker, University of Zürich.
Ånund Austenå, aanund.austenaa@gmail.com
Dr. Ida Winther, Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitet, København, idvi@dpu.dk
Karolina Dudek, Warszawa, Poland, karolina_dudek@vp.pl
Slawomir Sikora, Warszawa, Poland, slawomir.sikora@uw.edu.pl
Paolo Gaddini, Santa Ginese Lucca , gaddini.paolo@alice.it
Mohamadou Saliou, Tromsø Universitet, sawmbum2000@yahoo.fr
Arne G. Pettersen, Bergen, arnegp@gmail.com
Steef Meyerknecht
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The 30th Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA) International Film Festival
Moesgård Museum, 30 August to 1 September 2010
The 30th NAFA Film Festival screens ethnographic and documentary films with an emphasis on anthropological relevance in a wide sense. There are no rules as to year of release, the only rule being that films should not have been previously submitted to a NAFA festival. NAFA awards no prizes and charges no entry fee.
The screenings consist of films selected by a selection committee comprised of the following
NAFA members, who are all anthropologists and filmmakers: Petia Mankova (Tromsoe), Linda Jonsen Engberg (Aarhus), Johannes Sjöberg (Manchester), Jouko Aaltonen (Helsinki), and Peter I. Crawford, film selection committee chairman E-mail: info@intervention.dk.
Program (overview)
Screenings 28.-29. August (evenings) and 30. August-1. September 2010
at Moesgård Museum, Århus
Saturday 28 August
20.30 till late Film screenings 1 (Chaired by Rossella Raggazzi)
Gandhi’s Children (David MacDougall, Australia, 2008, 185’)
Sunday 29 August
20.30 till late Film screenings 2, John Marshall and children retrospective
(Chaired by Judith & David MacDougall and Peter I. Crawford)
Vermont Kids (John Marshall, U.S.A., 1975, 58’) & children’s films from the !Kung series.
Monday 30 August
09.00-11.00 Film screenings 3 (Chaired by Peter I. Crawford)
Juarké. Boys made men in Mboum society (Mohamadou Saliou, Norway, 2010, 52’)
My Mom’s Name is Jean (Myles David Jewell, U.S.A., 2008, 27’)
11.30-13.00 Film screenings 4 (Chaired by Jouko Aaltonen)
Rebels with a cause (A. Haase et al., Finland, 2008, 76’)
14.00-16.00 Film screenings 5 (Chaired by Johannes Sjöberg)
Extra Turbulence (Anna Korhonen, Finland, 2009, 48’)
Bathers (Eva Stefani, Greece, 2008, 45’)
16.30-18.30 Film screenings 6 (Chaired by NN)
Big Sister Punam (L. and J. Muntean, Serbia, 2010, 51’)
For our street family (Jennifer Wolowic, Canada, 2008, 34’)
Christmas with Dad (Conor McCormack, Scotland, 2008, 12’)
20.00-late Film screenings 7 (Chaired by Petia Mankova)
Desert Brides (Ada Ushpiz, Israel, 2008, 90’)
Play me allegro (Alon Alsheich, Israel, 2008, 52’)
Tuesday 31 August
09.00-11.30 Film screenings 8 (Chaired by Rossella Ragazzi)
Mauris, Nadia, Fiurina (Ivo Zen, Switzerland, 2009, 60’)
Kid Mountain (Björn Reinhardt, Romania, 2009, 60’)
12.00-13.10 Film screenings 9 (Chaired by Peter I. Crawford)
Difficult Birth (Christa Pfafferott, Germany, 2009, 60’)
14.00-16.00 Film screenings 10 (Chaired by Petia Mankova)
The boy who plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan (Phil Grabsky, UK, 2002, 96’)
16.30-18.30 Film screenings 11 (Chaired by Jouko Aaltonen)
Kites (Beate Dzianowicz, Poland, 2007, 80’)
Neither Day, nor Night (Rod Steel, Brazil, 2010, 10’)
20.00-late Film screenings 12 (Chaired by Johannes Sjöberg)
Tobacco Girl (Biljana Garvanlieva, Germany, 2009, 29’)
Bunong’s Birth Practices Between Tradition and Change
(Tommi Mendel & Brigitte Nikles, Switzerland, 2010, 50’)
Going on 13 (Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Dawn Valadez, U.S.A., 2008, 73’)
Wednesday 1 September
09.00-11.30 Film screenings 13 (Chaired by Petia Mankova)
If the vagina had teeth (Frode Storaas & Liivo Niglas, Norway/Estonia, 2009, 60’)
Law and war in rural Kenya (Suzette Heald, UK, 2010, 64’).
12.00-13.15 Film screenings 14 (Chaired by Jouko Aaltonen)
Shaman Tour (Laetitia Merli, France, 2009, 63’)
14.15-16.15 Film screenings 15 (Chaired by Peter I. Crawford)
A Man from the Congo River (Jouko Aaltonen, Finland, 2009, 53’)
Shooting with Mursi (Ben Young & Olisarali Olibui, UK, 2009, 54’)
16.45-18.00 Film screenings 16 (Chaired by NN)
Stone Pastures (Donagh Coleman, Finland, 2008, 65’)
18.15-20.00 Final film screenings (Chaired by Johannes Sjöberg)
The Art of Regret (Judith MacDougall, Australia, 2007, 59’)
Stranger Danger (Holland Wilde, Canada, 2010, 24’)
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Getting to Århus and Moesgård
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Bus Line 6 from the city centre to Moesgård Museum
Moesgård is an old manor situated in the forest 10 km south of the Capital Church in the Århus city centre.
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The bus leaves Moesgaard twice every hour from 6.45 until 23.45 at minutes xx.15 and xx.45.
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