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Workshop: Collaborative, Creative-critical and Participatory Research Methods

Organized by AIAS Associate Fellow Alan O’Leary and The Filmmaking Research, Academic Film and Videographic Criticism Research Unit, in collaboration with Britta Timm Knudsen and Peter M. Boenisch, Directors, Cultural Transformations Research Programme

From “R(AGE): Aging and Raging in the cinemas of the Global South” (2024), videoessay by Barbara Zecchi

Info about event

Time

Wednesday 17 April 2024,  at 12:00 - 16:30

Location

Room 301, AIAS, Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B, 8000 Aarhus C

PROGRAMME
 

12:00 - 12:30 Lunch and welcome

12:30 - 13:30 PARTICIPATORY METHODS: Chair: Britta Timm Knudsen  (Co-directors, Cultural Transformations Research Programme)

  • Louise Ejgod (Dramaturgy, AU) and Christiane Særkjær (Aesthetics and Culture, AU): Engaging children in research: Challenges and approaches
  • Peter M. Boenisch (Dramaturgy, AU): Engaging institutions in research: Challenges and approaches

13:30 - 14:30 POST/DECOLONIAL CONTEXTS: Chair: Peter M. Boenisch (Co-director, Cultural Transformations Research Programme)

  • Maya Acharya and Daniela Agostinho (Postcolonial Entanglements Research Unit): Collaborative methods in post/decolonial contexts
  • Britta Timm Knudsen (Scandinavian Studies and Experience Economy, AU): Positionalities in decolonial research: what will succeed the disinterested researcher?

14:30 - 14:45 Coffee break

14:45 - 15:45 VIDEO ESSAYS AND VIDEOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION
Chair: Alan O'Leary (leader, Filmmaking Research, Academic Film and Videographic Criticism research unit)

  • Mathias Bonde Korsgaard (MEDJOUR, AU)
  • Catherine Grant (Honorary Professor, AU)
  • Barbara Zecchi (AIAS Tandem Fellow/UMass Amherst)

The three presenters will each show a short videoessay and describe the methods used to make and the knowledge affordances of those methods.

15:45 - 16:30 RESPONSES AND DISCUSSION

  • Andreas Roepstorff (Director of AIAS)
  • Britta Timm Knudsen and Peter M. Boenisch (Directors, Cultural Transformations Research Programme): Where do we go in Cultural Transformations?

Supported by Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Cultural Transformations Research Programme, Media Communication and Society Research Programme, and Department of Media and Journalism Studies at Aarhus University. 


REGISTRATION

The event is open to all by prior registration.
Registration closes on 14 April 2024.

REGISTER HERE

CONTACT AND ORGANIZER

Alan O'Leary, AIAS Associate Fellow
E-mail: aoleary@cc.au.dk
Department of Media Studies and Journalism
Aarhus University