Engaged Audiovisual Ethnography and Ecological Crisis

Ecological Crisis and Autonomist Politics
Wednesday May 7^th 3:30-5pm, Thompson Hall 420

This talk unpacks efforts of social movements and indigenous communities to seek autonomy from political and economic systems driving the destruction of the planet as ecological crisis deepens across the globe.

Engaged Audiovisual Ethnography: A Visual Anthropology Practicum
Thursday & Friday May 8^th & 9^th, 3-6pm, Location TBA

Combining art, media and ethnography produces unique practical and academic considerations. This 2-day practicum will explore the practice and function of multi-media ethnography for students of the social sciences. Participants will explore the complexities of representation across social boundaries, and the negative and positive social impacts audiovisual representation may engender. By the end of the workshop, participants will produce and share short videos conveying social phenomena through human experience. Spaces Limited. Register for this Practicum.

Dr. Joshua Holst has devised advocacy programs addressing human rights, environmental and social justice issues in the United States, the West African Sahara, the jungles of southeast Asia, and the highlands and lowlands of the Andes-Amazon region in Latin America. His work has focused on environmental justice, human rights reporting and advocacy, microfinance reform, emergency relief, youth homelessness, and human trafficking. He is an applied visual anthropologist, consulting for nonprofits and government agencies, directing documentaries, and publishing articles on humanitarian issues.