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The Images of Care Collective, the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology and the Life Course (AAGE), the Visual Anthropology Network of the European Network of Social Anthropologists (VANEASA) and AGENET are delighted to invite you to the new webinar series on images, ageing and care which will be held monthly throughout 2024!
Check our upcoming and past webinars below.
This webinar series – free and open to all- gathers anthropologists and image-makers interested in exploring the ontological and epistemological connections between images, aging and care, treating the relationship and these phenomena as requiring and inviting interrogation.
It is sponsored by the Images of Care Collective, the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology and the Life Course (AAGE), EASA’s Age and Generations Network (AgeNet) and the Network for Visual Anthropology of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (VANEASA).
UPCOMING WEBINARS
The Images of Care Collective, AAGE, AgeNet and VANEASA are delighted to invite you to the fifth webinar of the series “Images, Ageing and Care”. Our guest, Jon Wagner (Professor Emeritus, UC Davis) will speak about “Visual Literacy and Alzheimer’s Caregiving”. The host and moderator will be Paolo Favero (ViDi/UAntwerp and VANEASA).
The talk (which will also host some interactive moments) will focus on visual literacy skills and materials as a resource for caregivers of people living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. It will take place in Zoom on Monday 13th May 2024, at 5:30PM to 7:00PM CEST, 4:30PM to 6:00PM BST, 8:30AM-10:00 PDT, 11.30-13:00 EST. To join, click here on the day of the event:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83104056804?pwd=TGFpcGtxWEtWWWpHZXphMVFJSXVuZz09
Meeting ID: 831 0405 6804
Passcode: 699476
ABOUT THE TALK:
Visual Literacy and Alzheimer’s Caregiving
This webinar will explore visual literacy skills and materials as a resource for caregivers of people living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Illustrations and commentary will focus on the significance of such skills and materials in two key contexts: (1) interactions between people who live with Alzheimer’s, their family members and immediate care-givers, and (2) interactions between the lay public, Alzheimer’s care coordinators and policy makers. I will also explore with webinar participants how greater use of visual literacy and materials in these two contexts can prompt us to reassess ideas about informed consent, assisted communication, interpersonal recognition and trust—and about the challenges of using images and text to respectfully depict the humanity of other vulnerable populations.
May 13 – Jon Wagner (time tba)
PAST WEBINARS
January 25 - Inge Daniels about the film “She Waves at Me”
Please cite as: Inge Daniels. 2024. “On the film She Waves at Me,“ webinar from Images of Care Collective, AAGE, AgeNet and VANEASA. 25 January
Inge Daniels’ film “She Waves at Me” explores what it feels like to be an aging body in an aging housing estate in Central London. The film, based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork (2020-2022), juxtaposes the intricate care that goes into maintaining the buildings and their surroundings with elderly inhabitants’ struggles and strategies to create safe and comfortable homes for themselves and their loved ones.
Inge Daniels is a visual anthropologist based at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include housing, atmosphere, and the built environment. She has conducted several ethnographies in Japan culminating in a 2010 monograph The Japanese House. She has also had an ongoing interest in curation and exhibitions, which resulted in the book What are Exhibitions for? (2019) which is based on an ethnography of visitors to the 2012 exhibition at the Museum of the Home in London. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the Disobedient Buildings project, which looks at housing, well-being and welfare in the U.K., Romania and Norway, and was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for four years from January 2020 (see www.disobedientbuildings.com<http://www.disobedientbuildings.com/>).
February 28 – Roger Canals on “Ethical images: on violence, trust and care“
Please cite as: Roger Canals. 2024. “Ethical images: on violence, trust and care,“ webinar from Images of Care Collective, AAGE, AgeNet and VANEASA. 28 February, available at: https://youtu.be/LEiTPgUKsiA
We do ethical things with images. Images are not just representations, but social agents which intervene in the world. Images weave the relationships that we maintain with other people. Images may hurt, betray, or offend. Yet they can also be an offering, a reward, a form of love, esteem, and care. In this talk, I will talk about violence and care in images, not only focusing on how these ethical dispositions have been depicted visually, but rather on how they are necessarily involved in the processes of image-making and image-circulation. Most of the metaphors about the act of making images have been based on a mode of violence and mistrust. And if we changed this paradigm?
Anthropologist and filmmaker, Roger Canals is associate professor at the University of Barcelona. He is currently the PI of the ERC-Consolidator Grant Visual Trust. Reliability, accountability and forgery in scientific, religious and social images (2021-2026). For more information, visit this site: www.visualtrust.ub.edu
7th March – Erica Monde (Imprint Collective): on embodied documentary filmmaking
Please cite as: Erica Monde. 2024. “Imprint Collective: on embodied documentary filmmaking,“ webinar from Images of Care Collective, AAGE, AgeNet and VANEASA. 7 March.
IMPRINT Documentary Collective is an international feminist film collective working on developing a process of “embodied documentary filmmaking” through experimental, collaborative, grassroots, and feminist filmmaking practices. Through experiential workshops exploring the body’s own stories as well as the role of the body politic in film, IMPRINT has brought together filmmakers, artists and academics to create experimental documentary films on radically empathic ways of being in the world. Erica will share insights into the practice of embodiment in the filmmaking process, as well as share examples of her filmic work that draws on an embodied process in both directing and production. You can find more information on IMPRINT online at imprintdocs.cargo.site or on instagram @imprint.documentaries
Erica Monde is a filmmaker and medical anthropologist working in film production, education, and research on embodiment, mental health, and filmmaking. She is co-founder of IMPRINT Documentary Collective, a feminist film collective experimenting with the body in filmmaking, as well as founder of Embodied Ecologies, an academic and artist network exploring the intersections of embodiment and ecology in creative arts practice. Her Screen Scotland and Scottish Documentary Institute commissioned documentary on endometriosis and the Japanese knotweed, There’s Not Much We Can Do, premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2022, and has recently screened at international festivals such as DOC:NYC and Raindance. She is an alumni of the Locarno Industry Academy, currently tutors on the Film Medicine postgraduate course at the University of Edinburgh, and has been recently commissioned by BFI Network and Short Circuit to direct her first fiction film, This desert will rust your bones. You can follow her work @erica.monde or at ericamonde.cargo.site.
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