[URBANTH-L] The Global City and Media Ethnography: Practice-led Transcultural Research and Media Practice June 12-30, 2006

[Allen Feldman]

The Global City and Media Ethnography:
Practice-led Transcultural Research
and Media Practice
June 12-30, 2006
Temple Bar, Dublin Ireland
Note: This course is open to graduate degree students and advanced
upper-level undergraduate outside of New York University.

The Department of Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School of Education,
in collaboration with The Centre for Transcultural Research and Media
Practice, Dublin, Ireland, presents a study abroad program in practice-led
media research. Through theory-building seminars, project development
clinics, multi-media lab instruction, and 1:1 advisement, students will be
enabled in the design and development of  practice-based M.A. and Ph.D.
level research projects, combining text and visual-audio media artefacts
across a variety of platforms. including video, photography and digital
imaging and networked environments.


The curriculum is aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students from
diverse disciplines who want to explore creative media practice as a
research methodology. The curriculum is grounded on media lab instruction in
tandem with seminars/workshops and readings on transcultural issues and
theory. Students will also  participate in guided site visits and/or
field-site placement in ongoing Dublin-based research projects mapping the
transcultural city.
 
The Summer School is located at the Irish Photographic Centre in Dublin's
Temple Bar Cultural Quarter, comprising 28 acres of historical architecture
dedicated to arts, media, culture and entertainment along with some of
Dublin's leading restaurants, cafes, pubs, hotels and shops, in one of the
world's most rapidly globalizing cities with expanding multi-cultural
communites and identities.
 
Seminar and Media Lab topics include:
Transcultural and Globalization Theory

The Politics of  the Gaze and  the Senses

 Human Rights and  Mediated Visibility/Invisibility

 Mapping Mediascapes

Soundscapes

Space and Place as Performance

Media Practice: Politics and Ethics of Multi-Sited Fieldwork

Cultural Memory, New Media and Audible Pasts

Photography and the Aesthetics of Evidence

 Documentary Video/Film and Visual Ethnography

 Media-led Research: Artefacts and Outputs

 Reading/Performing the Archive

·Mixed Methodologies: Creative Media Practice and Research Methods

Course: The Global City and Media Ethnography: E59: 2401___________ 6 points
Tuition: $872 per credit point x 6 points: $4,962, plus registration fees.
 
Accommodation: Griffith College, Dublin, Approximately $860 ($43 x 20 days)
(Large fully furnished 2 and 3 bedroom apartments with kitchens and
bathrooms; 15 minute walk from Summer School, 10 minute walk to City
Center), two-minute walk to mass transit. (Meals not included) Residency at
Griffith College is required.

 Travel: Round-trip airfares to New York City and Dublin approximately
$500-$700 (students make reservations and fly  individually. (Depending  on
fuel prices student tickets could be less than $500 roundtrip).

 
 
Global City Faculty:
 
Allen Feldman, Co-director, (MA. Ph.D, Cutural Anthropology), Associate
Professor Department of Culture and Communication, New York University:
Research Interests: Visual Culture, the Anthropology of the Senses,
Ethnography of Media, Performance Studies.
 
Áine O¹Brien Co-director, (Ph.D. Modern Studies Programme, University of
Wisconsin - Milwaukee); Director: Centre for Transcultural Research and
Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology. Research interests: Visual
Culture, Documentary Media Practice; Experimental Ethnography, Globalisation
and Migrant Identities.
 
Nicholas Mirzoeff, (PhD Art History University of Warwick); Professor,Visual
Culture Program, Arts and Arts Professions, New York University:
postdoctoral fellowships from UCLA, the J. Paul Getty Center for the History
of Art, Research Interests:  Visual Culture, Bodyscapes, Disability Studies,
Diaspora, and Human Rights.
 

Arvind Rajagopal (Ph.D, Sociology University of California Berkely),
Associate Professor Culture and Communication New York University. Research
Interests:  Ppolitical economy of culture, contemporary South Asia,
audiences and reception theory, Post-Colonial Theory, Media Religion,
Secularism and globalization.

 
Roshini Kempadoo, Senior Lecturer in digital media University of East London
(Research Associate: Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice,
Dublin Institute of Technology). Research Interests digital media and art,
networked environments, the Black Atlantic, critical race theory, Diaspora,
cultural memory, gender and resistance.
 
Anthony Haughey, (MA. Visual Media, National College of Art and Design,
Dublin); Head: Department of Media Technologies, School of Media and
Research Associate: Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice,
Dublin Institute of Technology. Research interests: Documentary Photography
and Installation Practice, Visual Culture; Public Culture and Post-conflict
Landscapes, Migration.
 
Alan Grossman, (Ph.D. Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, University of
Cardiff, Wales); Senior Researcher, Centre for Transcultural Research and
Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology. Research interests:
Ethnographic Media Practice, Ethnographic/Documentary Film, Cultural
Politics of Migration/Diasporic Formations across Infra/Transnational
Contexts. 
 

Martin McCabe (MA Film and Television, Dublin City University, Postgraduate
Diploma Third Level Learning and Teaching, Dublin Institute of Technology);
Programme Chair, BA Honours Photography, Associate of the Centre for
Transcultural Research and Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology;
Research interests; Visual Cultural Studies, Modernity and Photographic
Archives, the politics of pedagogy.

Rossella Ragazzi (MA Ethnographic Documentary, Centre Sperimentale di
Cinematografia, Rome; MA. Art Sciences, University of Paris, La Sorbonne,
2001). Doctoral Scholar, Centre for Transcultural Research and Media
Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology.  Lecturer Visual Anthropology,
University of Tromso, Norway. Research interests: Visual Ethnography and
Filmmaking, Memory and Childhood,

Contact:
Allen Feldman
af31 at nyu.edu
Associate Professor
Department of Culture and Communication
New York University



Allen Feldman
Associate Professor
Department of Culture and Communication
New York University


Associate Professor
Department of Culture and Communication
New York University