ETHNOCINECA 2009

After the great success of this year’s ETHNOCINECA , also in 2009 we will organize this unique anthropological work exhibition in Austria!

At the moment we work on the outline and organization of next years ETHNOCINECA - so news and the call for films will be online soon!

for further details: www.ethnocineca.at
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MASN - Moving Anthropology Student Network

MASN, the “Moving Anthropology Student Network”, was founded in 2005 to promote communication, networking, information-
exchange and interaction among all students and “young” scholars of social and cultural anthropology ( i.e. ethnology ), as well as related sciences, and has since become the largest international platform of its kind.
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FELDFORSCHUNG QUO VADIS

MASN Austria is co-organising the workshop panel ‘Feldforschung Quo Vadis?’ at this years Tage der KSA on the 10. and 11. april 2008

for further details Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Vienna

ETHNOCINECA 2008

ETHNOCINECA is an anthropological work exhibition organized by students of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna in cooperation with MASN-Austria. This years ETHNOCINECA will take place in SOHO in OTTAKRING from 21. to 24. of May.
Originally initialized by the department itself and now having emancipated from in- to outside the university’s premises, the aims of ETHNOCINECA are to present different approaches to sociocultural media interventions.

ETHNOCINECA originates from and focuses on documentary as well as audiovisual anthropological films. It provides a platform for presentation and reflection of film/video, photography and other interactive media interventions with sociocultural or anthropological emphasis. The leading thought of the project is to show films made “by people for people”, showing their diversity as sociocultural, political and economic beings and different ways of organizing themselves as such.

ETHNOCINECA understands itself as an offer for all people working in the field of arts and culture to present their audiovisual works to a broad publicity, to open up new perspectives on areas of action and hence discuss and thematize those in public. Images as a means of displaying the singularities and particularities of intercultural communications are used to widen the scope for reflection and hence provide more than just a symbolic contribution to cultural understanding.

For further details: www.ethnocineca.at

Coordinators: ,
Team: , Jürgen Fennes, , , , Oliver Moiseanu, Anita Pinter, Jessica Schädler, Stefan Spannknebel, Mario Strk

Ethnocineca

PROJEKT AQUA ANTHROPOS: The European Spring Water Conference 2008 & The Spring Water Festival 2009

Water as a very scarce resource has a recurrent potential for conflict from a social, economic and cultural point of view. Potable water on the earth’s surface is a precious good which is at risk in many regions of the world because of human and climatic influences, and is becoming therefore a rare resource. Desertification, pollution and the unsustainable management with ground and running water in the industrial agriculture as well as in various industrial complexes, lead at the same time to a higher capitalization of natural drinking water resources. Due to global warming the greatest drinking water resources on the earth’s surface which are saved in the poles and glaciers, will get decimated. In view of this set of problems, the underground drinking water resources become highly important for the future water supply and thus for the future of mankind.

In Europe we are lucky to have an abundance of active underground drinking water resources providing, the Alp regions in particular, fabulous wealth and great cultural heritage. History has shown that cultural events concerning spring water have occurred in Celtic, Greek and Roman times, and were celebrated by the earliest European inhabitants. They are therefore a unifying element of many European countries, myths and religions.

The European Spring Water Conference in Vienna (3rd and 4th of November 2008 in The Castle Schönbrunn), where anthropologists, natural and social scientists, economists and artists will come together will be the starting point. The human beeing, as “Aqua Anthropos” and the current social, political and cultural impact concerning drinking water will be the main topics of the lectures given. The Conference enjoys the patronage of the Austrian Commission for UNESCO. The scientific output of the European Spring Water Conference will be published at the Spring Water Festival 2009 and adapted within the informative workshops and works of art.
Full conference description

For further informations visit the homepage: http://www.AquaAnthropos.com

The alpine richness of spring water demands a cultural awareness and a celebration, which can be described as “The Rebirth Of Spring Water Celebrations” which are deeply seated in European history. The Spring Water Festival 2009 will combine scientific information and artful conceptions of our European cultural heritage (e.g. the mythologies, architecture and worship practices) in broad fields of entertainment consisting of theater, film and musical performances. Furthermore, there will art exhibitions, installations and a photography exhibition that will visually bring in some of Europe’s springs.

In Association with: La Manana (GER), Humanitas (SI), Kultura&Management (CZ), City Council of Vienna, University of Vienna, Vienna Waterworks etc.

Project Management:

Associates: Mag. Niko Reinberg, Mag. Martin A. Luger, Mag. Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, Julia Bartl, Stefan Wolf, Mag. Gregor Jakob, Mag. Katja Seidel, Mascha Gugganig

Lebendige Geschichten - Zuhören und Erzählen am Yppenplatz’

Eine Reise in fremde Welten durch das Eintauchen in die Phantasie der Worte. Ein Abend voller Träumerein, Geschichten, Märchen und Sagen, die die BesucherInnen für ein paar Stunden in eine andere Zeit, an einen andern Ort entrückte, um sie ermutigt, erstaunt, fröhlicher und nachdenklicher als zuvor wieder zu entlassen.
Die Abenden der Lebendigen Geschichten, die in Kooperation mit der Brunnenpassage veranstaltet in der Weihnachtszeit 2007, sollten Kindern und Erwachsenen die Vielfalt der oralen Traditionen vermitteln. Die Erzählungen reichten über Geschichten aus China, Frankreich und Wien, bis hin zu zweisprachig vorgetragenen Märchen aus dem Balkan Raum. Wir hoffen dass die gelungenen Abende zum fixen Bestandteil des Angebot der Brunnenpassage zählen werden. Durch das Konzept der open stage waren alle aufgerufen eine Geschichte zu erzählen und so interaktiv den Abend mitzugestalten. Insbesondere das Zusammentreffen von Menschen verschiedener räumlicher und sozialer Herkunft im 16. Wiener Gemeindebezirk sollte somit gefördert werden. Denn auch die ‚lebendigen Geschichten’ stammen aus aller Welt und beinhalten trotz ihrer unterschiedlichen Herkunft für jedermann und jederfrau zugängliche Erlebnisse und Einsichten. Die Abende waren ein grosser Erfolg. Die erzählten und geteilten Geschichten wie die gemütliche und freie Athmosphäre schufen einen kreativen Rahmen für alle ErzählerInnen, Musiker und Tänzerinnen, in der die Trennung zwischen AkteurIn und Publikum eine geringe Rolle spielte.

Veranstaltungsort: Brunnenpassage, Yppenplatz, 1160 Wien
Termine: 2. & 9.12.2007 – Beginn um 18 Uhr

Projektleitung: MASN-Austria;
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Andreas Gmeiner

Born in Vienna 1979. Civil Service at the Organisation Arbeiter Samariterbund in 1999. University degree as a Social Anthropologist, finishing a combination Study of International Development, a variety of lectures at the University of Vienna and at the University of Applied Arts. Working fields: Assistance at an educational and art projekt with favela kids in Recife, Brasil (2005); Implementation of a social campaign fort he Organisation Kinderfreunde Austria (2006). Field research and documentations on the topics: action art in public places, Situationism, Migration and Religion, Minority rights, Water and Health, Springwater in Austria.Kontakt:

Kerstin Tiefenbacher

Arbeitet im Österreichischen Lateinamerika Institut an einem EU- Projekt zum Ausbau der Forschungskooperation zwischen Lateinamerika und Europa (LAC ACCESS). Ihr regionales Interesse gilt vor allem Brasilien, inhaltlich beschäftigt sie sich mit den Themen der Medical Anthropology, den Gender Studies und der Feministischen Anthropologie. Neben ihrem Forschungsinteresse hat sie aber auch eine Vorliebe für organisatorische und administrative Arbeit (Projektmanagement). Kontakt:

Marija Martinovic

Geboren 1978 in Nis. Studium der Volks- und Völkerkunde an der Universität in Belgrad und Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie an der Universität Wien. Schwerpunkte: visuelle Antropologie, visuelle Repräsentationen, Postsozialismus, politische Praxis der Kunst, Gender Anthropology, Fotografie, Dokumentarfilm. Regionalgebiet: Südost Europa;
Ausbildung, Praktika und Organisation bei diversen Projekten in Bereichen Kunst, Kultur und Wissenschaft (Fotosammlung/ Museum für Völkerkunde, Wien; EASA; „die wahr/falsch inc.“; KulturKontakt Austria)
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Martin Alois Luger

Born 1978 in St.Pölten.
Studied Cultural and Social Anthropology and Philosophy in Vienna with special interests in Cyberanthropology, Cognitive Science and Medical Anthropology.

In training to become a Feldenkrais practitioner and psychotherapist.
Currently working on his dissertation about rhetoric in ritual, psychotherapy and cyberspace.

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Stefan A. Wolf

Studium der Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie an der Universität Wien | CREOLE MA Student. (Student at the architecture department at Vienna University of Technology.)
My focus lies on visual representation, South- Pacific, material culture, visual
anthropology, popular culture, methods, visual culture.
My approach in this fields lies in the everyday practice of human beings, which ca be explored by theories of the social science.
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