ReCNTR

Work-in-progress Workshop: Photo Edition| Room 212A| Wijnhaven building
2022-09-23 09:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Wijnhaven Building, Turfmarkt 99, The Hague, 2511 DP, Netherlands
Although the most ubiquitous form of visual representation, photography has played a marginal role in social research projects and has been rarely elevated above the status of illustration in scholarly outputs. Despite the anxiety produced by stringent privacy laws and the habituated thoughtlessness common to everyday imaging habits, an increasing number of researchers recognize photography’s versatile and accessible qualities for enacting powerful visual narratives. Since efforts to establish rigorous peer review standards in this domain remain limited, ReCNTR will dedicate its next Works-in-Progress session to focus on research projects that foreground photography. Three ReCNTR members — Nadia Sonneveld, Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela, and Mark Westmoreland — will present works in different stages of development in order to get critical input and facilitate bringing the work to fruition. Discussion may range from shooting practices and ethical rapport to narrative structure and page design. In an effort to cultivate stronger connections with photographic practices in the Netherlands, ReCNTR has invited Donald Weber, Sybren Kuiper, and Andrea Stultiens as respondents. The session is open to the public.

When and where

23 September 2022, from 09:00 to 12:00
Leiden University
Wijnhaven building | Room 212A
Turfmarkt 99, The Hague

Talk by Nathaniel Brunt: The Country Without a Post Office / Archiving Photographic Histories of Armed Conflict | Room 312 a/b | Wijnhaven building
2022-06-30 15:00 - 17:00 | Wijnhaven Building, Turfmarkt 99, The Hague, 2511 DP, Netherlands
For nearly a decade, Nathaniel Brunt, has examined the history, sociocultural impact, and human cost of the insurgency in India’s Kashmir Valley. During this presentation Brunt will show the organic development of his work in the field and the unique way his project blends archival practice, documentary photography, and cultural historical research. The lecture will draw specific attention to his work #shaheed (2014-2017) which explores the recent re-emergence and evolution of the insurgency in the region, the lives of the young men fighting in it, and the broader changing nature of the photographic representation of war in the early 21st century.

When and where
30 June 2022, from 15:00 to 17:00
Wijnhaven building | Room 312 a/b
Turfmarkt 99 The Hague

Work-in-progress Workshop | Room 5A37 | Pieter de la Court building
2022-06-16 13:00 - 17:00 | Pieter de la Court Building, Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden, 2333AK, Netherlands
Join us for the centre’s first Work-in-progress workshop. Presenters will discuss a developing project with a “making” component. Participants will be invited to provide feedback after each presentation.

Programme:

13:00 – 13:05 Welcome
13:05- 14:15 Aiwen Yin and Myriam Vandenbroucke
14:20 – 15:35 Nile A Davies
15:40 – 17:00 Federico De Musso and Cristina Grasseni

When and where
16 June 2022, from 13:00 to 17:00
Pieter de la Court building | Room 5A37
Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden

Talk by Neal White: The Deep Field / Art and the Ecological Imaginary| Room 348| Wijnhaven building
2022-05-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Wijnhaven Building, Turfmarkt 99, The Hague, 2511 DP, Netherlands
Neal White is an artist and researcher. His talk will address artistic and academic research in relation to ecology as shaped by scientific framing of knowledge of environmental issues. The talk will highlight an artistic project he is leading in collaboration with artist Tina O’Connell at Amstelpark, Amsterdam, supported by Mondriaan Funds and zone2source. Framed by his work with the Deep Field Project, a research initiative that involves a range of graduate researchers using concepts from the environmental humanities, engaging with methodological innovation, and experimental fieldwork, White reflects on the power relationships that shape interdisciplinary and epistemic/environmental encounters and the critical role of artistic researchers in shaping knowledge futures.

When and where
13 May 2022, from 15:00 to 17:00
Wijnhaven building | Room 348
Turfmarkt 99 The Hague

Talk by Aymeric Mansoux: Shadow IT / The Politics of Digital Tools in Research and Teaching | Room 1.23 | Lipsius Building
2022-04-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Lipsius Building, Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden, 2311 BD, Netherlands
During this presentation, and the following discussion, we will question whether or not we can talk about other ways of knowing, teaching and researching in the digital realm without questioning the very tools that form such a realm. We will discuss if shadow IT can help us think through this conundrum. The Experimental Publishing master (XPUB), a master in art and design at the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, will be used as an example of how shadow IT can be used to rethink practice-led research and teaching.

When and where
Lipsius Building, Room 1.23
Cleveringaplaats 1, 2311 BD Leiden

Making Workshop by Elizabeth Chin : Displacing the Ethnographic Eye | Room 1B53 | Leiden
2022-03-25 09:00 - 17:00 | Pieter de la Court Building, Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden, 2333AK, Netherlands
Removing the camera from the eye and using such strategies as time-lapse and motion sensing, this workshop focuses on how visual documentation can become material that illuminates fieldwork in unexpected ways.  All you need is a smartphone and room to download an app or two, a sense of fun and a willingness to experiment and possibly look silly in public.

We will first experiment with apps that offer options for capturing visual images (still and moving).  Then, out in public we will gather documentation.  Finally, we will review, process, and reflect upon that documentation and what it might tell us and how we might make use of it.

Time
The workshop will take place on Friday 25th March, from 9:00 to 17:00

Place
Pieter de la Court Building
Leiden University
Room 1B53
Wassenaarseweg 52,
2333 AK Leiden

ReCNTR Launch Event | Room 346 | Wijnhaven
2022-03-24 15:00 - 17:00 | Wijnhaven Building, Turfmarkt 99, The Hague, 2511 DP, Netherlands
We are delighted to announce the launch of ReCNTR, a new interdisciplinary research centre focused on promoting multimodal and audiovisual research methods in social science and the humanities. It is supported by the Institute of Cultural Anthropology, the Institute of Political Science, the Center of the Arts in Society at Leiden University and by the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.

Date
24 March 2022
from 15:00 to 17:00

Location
Room 346, Wijnhaven Building
Turfmarkt 99, 2511 DP The Hague
