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Opening the SOAS Archives: The Fürer-Haimendorf Collection Online

Date: 30 October 2009Time: 10:00 AM

Finishes: 30 October 2009Time: 6:30 PM

Venue: Brunei GalleryRoom: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

Type of Event: Seminar

TimeDescription
10:00-10:30Tea/coffee/biscuits (Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre) (Location)
10:30-11:00
Introductions

Susannah Rayner (SOAS)
Malcolm Raggett (SOAS)
Nick Haimendorf

11:00-12:30
Using the Fürer-Haimendorf photographs in field research

in Nagaland (Alban von Stockhausen, Zürich)
in Arunachal Pradesh (Dr. Stuart Blackburn, SOAS)
in Arunachal Pradesh (Prof. Toni Huber, Berlin)

12:30-13:00Discussion
13:00-14:00Lunch
14:00-15:00

Fürer-Haimendorf and Visual Anthropology

Fürer-Haimendorf and visual anthropology in Nepal (Prof. Michael Oppitz, Berlin)

Fürer-Haimendorf as visual anthropologist and film-maker (Prof. Alan Macfarlane, Cambridge)

15:00-15:30Discussion
15:30-15:40Tea/coffee
15:40-16:40
Digital Archives

Collect, protect, connect (Dr. Mark Turin, Cambridge)
What to do with images? (Alastair Dunning, JISC)

16:40-17:00Discussion and future plans
17:00- 18:30Reception and Launch of the Online Archive
(Brunei Gallery Conference Suite)