Sumários
Seminário de Estudos Pós-Graduados - Antropologia
19 Maio 2023, 14:30 • Paula Sofia Ramos de Sousa Sampaio
O seminário contou com a participação (por teleconferência em zoom) da conferencista convidada Georgina Born (University College London), que fez uma apresentação com o título: “The dynamics of pluralism in contemporary digital art music”. Resumo: “How to capture the transformation, from without and within, of a dominant art music genre? Academic electroacoustic music, and specifically acousmatic music, the modernist lineage that came to prominence from the 1970s in universities in the UK, Canada and Europe, has been both hegemonic and waning for around twenty years. In this presentation, based mainly on a chapter from the open access book Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology (2022), I explore this state of affairs through an ethnography of British university trainings in digital art music and related scenes, trainings I gather under the term ‘music technology degrees’. The aim is to probe the burgeoning pluralism of digital art music in the UK as this presses on contemporary music writ large. My fieldwork focused on three leading British centres: the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) at Queen's University, Belfast, the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre (MTIRC) at De Montfort University, Leicester, and the Music and Music Technology groups at the University of Huddersfield. It also involved contacts with the sound art research centre at London's University of the Arts. I observed teaching and events, attended gigs and conferences, and made relationships with teaching staff, masters and PhD students. By analysing the music technology degrees the chapter narrates a heterogeneous field in motion, buffeted by larger historical processes. A core premise is that educational change of this kind is both a barometer and a catalyst of wider musical, cultural, social and political changes. The net effect is the blossoming of an extraordinary but patterned diversity of idioms in digital art music, analysed in the final part of the chapter. This leads to a final discussion of how we should conceptualise pluralism in music today. I will begin this presentation by introducing the methodological stance taken by the research behind this book as a whole, which argues for a new relationship between anthropology and contemporary music (and art) practices, and why this should mean moving beyond the boundaries set up by the existence of ethnomusicology as a field.” A apresentação foi seguida de discussão, ambas conduzidas em inglês.
Seminário de Estudos Pós-Graduados - Antropologia
21 Abril 2023, 14:30 • Paula Sofia Ramos de Sousa Sampaio
O seminário contou com a participação da conferencista convidada Ildikó Plájás (Leiden University e University of Amsterdam), que fez uma apresentação com o título: “InterFaces: Technologies of vision and the enactments of race in governing people and their mobilities in Europe. A multimodal intervention”. Resumo: “Ildikó Plájás is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University and a lecturer in visual anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. She studied anthropology and cultural studies in Romania and Hungary, later graduating in Visual Ethnography at Leiden University. Her PhD research, conducted in the frame of the RaceFaceID Research Project at the University of Amsterdam, examined how technologies of vision used in governing mobility enact race and racial otherness in Europe. In this work she also developed and experimental approach that intertwines experimental film clips and written arguments to craft a theoretical intervention into the materiality and relationality of vision and race. In this multimodal format, vision is used not to produce or reinforce, but to disturb and perhaps even undo ideas of racial otherness.” A apresentação foi seguida de discussão, ambas conduzidas em inglês.
Seminário de Estudos Pós-Graduados - Antropologia
10 Março 2023, 14:30 • Paula Sofia Ramos de Sousa Sampaio
O seminário contou com a participação da conferencista convidada Emília Margarida Marques (CRIA/ISCTE-IUL e IHC/NOVA-FCSH), que fez uma apresentação com o título: “Laboração contínua: Pessoas, máquinas e uma etnografia do trabalho industrial” Resumo: “Olhado a partir da antropologia, o trabalho industrial ilumina relações complexas entre o sistémico e o vivido. Este seminário revisita uma etnografia desenvolvida em contexto fabril, entre condutores de máquinas automáticas de moldação de vidro, discutindo as suas práticas de apropriação do trabalho e os limites estruturais que as envolvem. A materialidade situada, disputada e multifacetada da técnica e da produção (a máquina, a ‘obra’, o gesto quotidiano) é interrogada enquanto articulação central dos processos sociais que atravessam a fábrica – e logo, necessariamente, da relação etnográfica.” A apresentação foi seguida de discussão.