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Migratory Practices: exchanges between anthropology, art, craft and design

Manchester Metropolitan University

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Tuesday 5th September
9.30 Registration/tea and coffee
10.00 Welcome Address
10.15 Keynote Speeches

The Craft of Anthropology
Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen

Exhibiting Africa: some thoughts about pots
Moira Vincentelli, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

12.15 Lunch
1.30 Session 1 Extending the debate

Discussant: Sharon Macdonald, University of Manchester

Developing a 21st century art collection in a global context
Emma Martin, National Museums, Liverpool

Ethnographic methods in art, craft and design: beneficial appropriation or corporate exploitation?
Hamid van Koten, University of Dundee

2.30 Discussion
3.00 Coffee
3.15 Session 2 Fieldworks

Discussant: Judith Palmer, Manchester Metropolitan University

Field Notes Compared: Scientific and Artistic Practice
Mary Butcher, University of Reading

Alternative Forms of Theory: Drawing as Understanding
Raymond Lucas, University of Edinburgh

My Fieldwork in a glass-case
Carine Durand, University of Cambridge

4.45 Discussion
5.15 Drinks reception
6.30 Red Calico and Beginnings Roy Villevoye
Wednesday September 6th
9.00 Session 3 Making and ethnography

Discussant: Jane Webb, Manchester Metropolitan University

Identity and Culture: the pottery making culture of Kwanyama women
Helga Gamboa, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

A Thread, a Line, a Fabric
Caroline Bartlett, University of Hertfordshire

The practice of stitch as movement
Anne Morrell, Sarabhai Foundation and Calico Museum of Textiles, Ahmedabad, India

10.30 Discussion
11.15 Coffee
11.30 Session 4 Ethics

Discussant: Jeremy Theophilus, A Fine Line/HAT

Beyond the Seas: the effects of dislocation on material culture and craft practice
Steve Dixon, Manchester Metropolitan University

Listening and talking back: inter-cultural collaboration in ‘Weaving the Murray’
Kay Lawrence, South Australian School of Art, Australia

12.30 Discussion
1.15 Lunch
2.15 Session 5 Crossing borders

Discussant: Rupert Cox, University of Manchester

Can Anthropologists talk about beauty?
Stephanie Bunn, University of St Andrew’s

Absence and Imagination
Andrew Irving, Concordia University, Canada

3.15 Discussion
3.45 Coffee
4.00 Plenary
5.00 Close

Migratory Practices

5th - 6th September 2006

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