Hello All,
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<br>To celebrate its tenth anniversary, the UCL Centre for Digital Anthropology
<br>is holding its first Annual Lecture, followed by a reception, on 20th March
<br>at 5pm, at the Institute for Advanced Studies, UCL, London.
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<br>The lecture will be given by Prof. Georgina Born, from Oxford University,
<br>on "Digital Anthropology, Refracted Musically". Please see below for more
<br>information.
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<br>All welcome and attendance is free, but please register:
<br>https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-anthropology-refracted-musically-prof-
<br>georgina-born-tickets-57173923745
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<br>Hope to see some of you there!
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<br>Best wishes,
<br>Antonia
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<br>*Digital Anthropology, Refracted Musically: Where Are We and Where to Next?*
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<br> Professor Georgina Born, Oxford University
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<br>Digital anthropology has expanded hugely in the ten years since the start
<br>of UCL’s programme. Its tenth anniversary affords a good opportunity for
<br>‘medium’ work: being in the middle of events and charting how the field
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<br>developed and how it might go forward. If UCL’s programme reinvigorates UCL
<br>Anthropology’s long-standing commitments to social anthropology and
<br>material culture studies, are there aspects of the digital condition that
<br>elude these approaches? How much should digital anthropology itself be
<br>interdisciplinary and engage, for example, with digital methods or digital
<br>culture studies? And can digital anthropology lead in appraising
<br>theoretical perspectives like ANT and the new materialisms? Some of these
<br>questions will be probed in my lecture which, taking as its ethnographic
<br>focus a group of ERC-funded studies of digital music cultures worldwide,
<br>addresses anew a series of issues: sociality, politics and ontology,
<br>materiality, time and aesthetics. Music, it will be proposed, refracts
<br>digital anthropology in ways that augur new directions for our nascent
<br>field.
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<br>Bio:
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<br>Georgina Born is Professor of Music and Anthropology at Oxford University.
<br>She trained in Anthropology at UCL in the 1980s, working at the same time
<br>as a musician with Henry Cow, the Feminist Improvising Group, Derek
<br>Bailey’s Company and as a member of the London Musicians’ Collective. Her
<br>work combines ethnographic and theoretical writings on music, sound,
<br>digital media, television and public broadcasting. Her books include
<br>*Rationalizing
<br>Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical
<br>Avant-Garde*, *Interdisciplinarity, Music, Sound and Space*, and
<br>*Improvisation
<br>and Social Aesthetics*. A double issue of *Contemporary Music Review *is
<br>just out on the theme of ‘Music, Mediation Theories and Actor-Network
<br>Theory’. A 2018 article ‘From microsound to vaporwave: Internet-mediated
<br>musics, online methods, and genre’ (co-authored with Christopher Haworth))
<br>used ethnography and digital methods to analyse online music cultures. She
<br>directs the ERC-funded research program ‘Music, Digitization, Mediation:
<br>Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies’ and has held visiting
<br>professorships at UC Berkeley, McGill, Oslo and Aarhus Universities. She
<br>chairs the Culture, Media and Performance Section of the British Academy.
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