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The Visual Anthropology Working Group at the University of Washington consists of graduate students and faculty members interested in exploring visual methods and forms of analysis as part of their ethnographic research and teaching practice. We welcome all interested students and faculty members. Please join us.

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vawg blog

Please visit and contribute to our blog. This is a discussion space for sharing thoughts or questions related to visual anthropology. Please contribute ideas for future meetings or screenings, projects you are working on, calls for papers or films, upcoming events, or ruminations on visual methods and forms of analysis as part of ethnographic research.

For instructions on using the blog, please refer to the "Creating Community Through Blogging" how-to page. The following are the basic steps you'll need to follow:

1) register as a user
2) join the VAWG blog as a coauthor
3) post and comment away

Thanks for checking out the blog. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

friday films

WINTER 2007
Friday, January 5: The Gleaners and I
Friday, February 2: passing girl: riverside, Babakiueria, & Night Cries
Friday, March 2: In Her Own Time: The Final Fieldwork of Barbara Myerhoff

SPRING 2007
Friday, April 13 (12-:30-1:30): Carved from the Heart - CANCELLED
Friday, May 18: The Mano River Sketches, slides & discussion of work-in-progress by Danny Hoffman
Friday, May 25: The Bimo Records (if dvd arrives in time) or TBA

All films will be screened at 1:30-3:30 pm (unless otherwise noted) in the Allen Auditorium, on the first floor of the Allen Library. [screening details]

discussion meetings

Thursday, January 18
5:00-6:30 pm
The District Lounge

the quick and the dead
a discussion of still vs. moving images organized by Chris Brown

The meetings for discussion of topics raised by group member will generally be held, with some exception, on Fridays, 1:30-3:30 pm at rotating locations TBA. [meeting details]

related events

Ruth Behar
Looking at the Jews of Cuba: A Photo Journey
Thursday, February 8, 4:00-5:30 pm
Communications 120

Anthropologist Ruth Behar will talk at UW about her recent collaboration with Cuban photographer Humberto Mayol. [download flyer] She will also be showing her film Adio Kerida at the following festival on Friday, 2/9.

Crossing Borders: Northwest Folklife Documentary Film Festival

Fri, Sat & Sun, February 9, 10 & 11, 2007
Fri, Sat & Sun, February 16, 17 &18, 2007
Nesholm Family Lecture Hall at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall Seattle Center

Robert Zverina
Autobioanthropolography
Thursday, March 29, 7:00 pm
Henry Art Gallery Auditorium

$5 Henry Members / $7 General

This program examines the intersection of autobiography and anthropology. Zverina will look at increasingly ubiquitous pocket video camera technology and consider the blurred line between participant and observer as he presents his own short films--1 to 30 second works that explore moments of grace within the quotidian--alongside the work of friends and strangers who have contacted him after viewing his films.