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Resident Ethnographic Artist at the University of Edinburgh, Sophia Neilson gave an interactive workshop on moving ethnography beyond the written word into a visual form.
Sophia spoke about her journey to illustrative ethnography, including discussion of her recent work illustrating the Refugee Labour Under Lockdown Project about a displaced Syrian farmworker during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Attendees were provided with creative materials and were inspired to produce their own zine!
There will be time to chat, drink coffee and tea, and draw (no artist skills are required). This was a great opportunity for students interested in anthropology, creativity, art, and ethnography to interact and share creative experiences.
This event saw the screening of an original short documentary affiliated with the UoE and featured a post-screening discussion with film co-Director, linguistic anthropologist and Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Dr. Magnus Course.
Featured in the RAI Film Festival and winner of Film G 2018 Award – Film Dùthchais as Fheàrr category, Muir ar n-athraichean (Our Father's Sea) (2018) is an original ethnographic exploration of the deep relationship between language, culture, and the environment.
Our Father's Sea considers the value of fishing through capturing closely the experiences and perspectives of inshore fishermen and the role the Scottish Gaelic language plays in maintaining generations-old fishing traditions and techniques, all amidst ever-tightening marine regulations threatens to fishing and subsequently to the language and culture of the isles themselves.
Filming is located around the islands of Benbecula and South Uist in the Outer Hebrides.
Questions for Dr. Course were taken after the film screening and included questions on varied themes such as film-making, anthropology, ethnography, environmentalism, Gaelic language, politics, environmental and language policy.
FILMSCREENING AND REFLECTION WITH DIRECTOR MAGNUS COURSE
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A first for our society, we were excited to join Stephanie Shakay Tierney - a PhD student of anthropology at the UOE - as she guided us on a first for the society: a physical exploration of the sites and stories which detail Edinburgh's dark past with witchcraft alongside contemporary practices of witchcraft in and around the city.
A round-walk (starting and ending in the same place), the walk centred around the Royal Mile, the heart of Edinburgh's historic heritage.
Confirmed locations:
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Teviot Row House
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The Witches Well
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Witchery by the Castle
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The Quaker Meeting House
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Heart of Midlothian
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Palace of Holyrood
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Teviot Row House for a post-event social
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