丁香园AV

November 1, 2019 | 3:00 鈥� 5:00pm | FREE / RSVP
Room 4390 鈥� 丁香园AV Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver

Join four 丁香园AV faculty members from FCAT, FASS & Education as they reflect on recent explorations in Interdisciplinary Learning, with Dara Culhane (Anthropology), Peter Dickinson (SCA), Rob Kitsos (SCA), and Elizabeth Marshall (Education).

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Performance, Place, and Sensory Ethnography

In this presentation, Dara Culhane and Peter Dickinson will discuss a course they co-taught in Spring 2019 that considered the theoretical and methodological intersections among performance studies and two emerging fields in anthropology: multisensory ethnography, which explores entangled relationships among embodied sensory experience and historical, cultural, and political contexts; and multimodal ethnography, which engages media in conducting, analyzing, and communicating fieldwork.

Students were asked to take as their primary objects of study their immediate sensory environments, using a series of walking exercises to engage with questions of Indigenous territorial sovereignty, to account for different micro- and macro-performances in and of the city, and to attend to how different 鈥渟ensescapes鈥� (including those not traditionally included in the Western schema of five senses) help reveal sedimented layers of history and belonging. Among other assignments, students were asked to keep a journal recording the field notes from their walks; and to complete a final trans-medial project that could combine writing, drawing, video, sound, and live performance that applied the embodied research of their walks to ideas of sense- and place-making.

Fairy Tales, Composition, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Elizabeth Marshall and Rob Kitsos will discuss their co-taught course entitled 鈥淐hallenging Normal鈥� in which students used fairy tales to examine the idea of perception and how we learn to see difference. Through course readings, compositional practices, and interdisciplinary collaborations, undergraduate students from a wide range of faculties re-formed fairy tales, such as Hans Christian Andersen鈥檚 鈥淭he Little Mermaid,鈥� into embodied texts. As students created their performances they made visible and challenged representations of 鈥渘ormal鈥� embedded within familiar fairy tale narratives. Marshall and Kitsos present 鈥榤aking as a way of thinking鈥� as a method of interdisciplinary inquiry that invites students to think and make in ways that challenge normative images and scripts.

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