22 Oct 2019 | 12:00pm - 2:00pm | Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT |
- Description
Description
Dr Christos Lynteris (Department of Social Anthropology, Unversity of St Andrews)
In this seminar, we will discuss the challenges in putting together the online photographic database of the project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic and ways in which this allows one to search a global archive of images.
Access to database: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275905
Readings:
- Christos Lynteris and Ruth J Prince, ‘Anthropology and Medical Photography: Ethnographic, Critical and Comparative Perspectives’, (2016), Visual Anthropology, 29(2): 101-117, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08949468.2016.1131104.
- Nicholas H A Evans, Branwyn Poleykett, Lukas Engelmann, ‘Fragments of the Plague’, (2016), Limn, 6, https://limn.it/articles/fragments-of-plague/
Open to all. No registration required.
An event organised by Health, Medicine and Agency Research Network
Administrative assistance: networks@crassh.cam.ac.uk
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