A video update on my trip to Côte d'Ivoire earlier this year and adding a dialogic dimension to my upcoming book youtu.be/hRPj2ypmfvo

Temporary job opportunity for a lecturer in visual and multimodal anthropology in Leiden www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

I made something with some wood offcuts... sapele and flamed maple box finished with blonde shellac, about cm 40Wx13Dx16H

Shared Histories – Collaboration in Ethnographic Film series of screenings, 25.09. to 28.09.2025 at Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin www.smb.museum/en/events/ev...

Call for films for the 18th German International Ethnographic Film Festival 13 – 17 May 2026 Göttingen, Germany www.gieff.de/submit-film....

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!

We’re super-excited to launch the open call for our newest global project, called A Century of Sounds, in partnership with the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford 🏛️ Find out more and get involved by 31 August: citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds

"A living visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field. Browse and contribute images of all kinds: diagrams, schematics, photos, graphic elements, and other visual fragments."

Our Fall 2025 catalog is here! Check out this season's new releases, from a new 3-volume popular history of the Philadelphia area to books about hybrid work, the early modern rum trade, black politics in Atlanta, debt's role in suburban growth & inequality, and more! Browse the PDF: bit.ly/4m8rvW4

Our summer school closed with a two-day event where the students presented the works they made during these two weeks to the community that hosted them

Learning 360 degree video with Rossella Schillaci and Giovanni Cestino

More from Leandro's workshop

Byzantine wedding in San Costantino Albanese, last Saturday

Masterclass with Leandro Pisano on sonic ethnography and rural marginality - yesterday as part of our summer school

Irish film director Pat Collins started today his masterclass for the 12 lucky students of our summer school

The course is finally starting tomorrow

Fine interview with noted anthropologist Hugh #Brody and his wife, actor Juliet Stevenson, on their commitment to Palestine. Brody is a Jewish son of a Holocaust survivor, who left Vienna after the Anschluss. Only her mother escaped to join her. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Bloomsbury strikes again. The book stops at page 176 and the begin the endnotes of a completely unrelated work

Our summer school will include open air screenings open to everybody. In the event that any of you be around those parts, come check some of these out:

Permanent job opening for a lecturer with an expertise in visual, digital and/or multi-media anthropology at the University of Sussex: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/faad63fc...

Permanent job opening for a lecturer with an expertise in visual, digital and/or multi-media anthropology at the University of Sussex: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/faad63fc...

NEW BOOK - Very happy to announce that today is the publication date for my monograph: "'The Adventure': violent borders, illegal migration, and the uncertain quest for life in Morocco" An open-access copy is available here www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

A film made as a graduation piece for our MA in Visual Anthropology at the Granada Centre @manchester.ac.uk. The Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology also supported Daniel with a scholarship

Call for films: Bremen Days of Ethnographic Film www.uni-bremen.de/kultur/profi...

PhD position in Visual and Multimodal Anthropology at the University of Tromso www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Sonic Ethnography paperback printed in full colour for £15! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152008/

Insoutenable et révoltant, je ne sais même pas quoi dire. Lisez

🗞️ Hot off the press, the June issue of @americananthro.bsky.social's flagship journal, #AmericanAnthropologist is here! 🔗 Read it at: l8r.it/VJJS #AnthropologyMatters #AnthroResearch #Anthropology #AnthroJournal

"In the process we hear speakers offer commentary. Senegalese prisoner Abdoulaye Niang, for example, calls Europe’s battlefields an abattoir for the soldiers from Africa. Others sang of the war of the whites, or speak of other forms of colonial exploitation."

A big part of my book ‘Sonic Pasts: acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes’ is a reflection on the concept of intangible cultural heritage in the context of the #UNESCO #ICHConvention. Here's a short thread on some of the #ICHConvention listings I analyse on sound beyond music

Deadline extended for the Society for Visual Anthropology's Collier Award for Still Photography. Submit your books until 15 June: www.societyforvisualanthropology.org/awards/john-...

Lots of filmmakers I have taught at the next RAI Film Festival, including MA in Visual Anthropology and Short Course in Ethnographic Filmmaking. Check out the programme: raifilm.org.uk/festivals/20...

Friendly reminder that our Spectral Remix RFP closes June 1 -- if you do art/media/design and are interested in the haunted quality of remix practice (incl. AI etc) please do send a proposal our way!

Fully funded PhD position in Visual Anthropology at the University of Bern www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/288tv...

A profile of Valentin Mudimbe, who died last month, and of the importance of his work theconversation.com/valentin-yve...

Very exciting resource! 'The Illustrated Flora of Burkina Faso and Mali', with names in five languages and open access version: theconversation.com/burkina-faso...

Super small DMS setup with a Radius mini alto 115 blimp

There are many tributes on fb and also a beautiful tribute to Jonathan Sterne on @dukepress.bsky.social. Read it here dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...

Nature Unseen is an exhibition co-created by anthropologist Karis Petty and sound artist Chris Sciacca on the experience of nature by sight impaired people - at Fabrica Brighton, 8 May fabrica.org.uk/exhibitions/...

The Society for Visual Anthropology Lemelson Fellowships funds graduate students in visual and multimodal anthropology to pursue exploratory research and/or methods training to prepare for their doctoral research. Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Deadline today!

Next Week I’ll be talking about Athens and modes of care, ethnography and drawing as a research method. It’ll be a long, reflexive, visual throwback to my ethnographic fieldwork and other funnier fancier stuff. See you online, or maybe not. In any case, bring your own pen.

My article "Tools for relatedness: 'Fetishes' in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors" is out in open access early view on @amanthro.bsky.social anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Goodbye Côte d'Ivoire, it's been a month full of work and ideas, sights, sounds and smells I'd been missing in all these years away from west Africa

Short trip to the village of Kapélé yesterday, where M. Konaté showed me the way he shapes and paints clay beads for his beautiful necklaces

Inside a termite nest. The architecture of these things is impressive - all made with no plan, just swarm intelligence