Visual Methods Workshop
Wednesday, December 9th, 2015
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, December 9, 2015 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place M5S 3K7 |
Series
2015 – 2016 Annual Symposium, High-rise Seoul Valérie 2015 Annual Symposium: “High-Rise Seoul”
Description
How do social science researchers studying urban dynamism and change use -photography, maps, film, video, graphic design, and other forms of visual data in their methodological practice? How do visual representations of objects, places, and landscapes foster different ways of seeing and knowing? What kinds of ethical and political dilemmas are generated by the use of visual forms? In this This workshop invites four three distinguished speakers to share their innovative approaches to visual methodology, which move beyond a narrow emphasis on documentary representation and explore the complex issues involved in producing visual interpretations of social, political and cultural life. In addition to sharing their insights about specific projects utilizing visual methods, they will discuss the importance of collaboration and reciprocity in the field of visual methodology as well as complex entanglements around power, inequality, and social justice in the production and dissemination of visual representation and forms.
Chair: Jennifer Jihye Chun, CSK Director
Speakers:
Valérie Gelézeau, the 2015 annual symposium’s distinguished guest speaker from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris) within the Centre for Korean Studies, will share insights from her use of visual methods in projects such as “Ap’at’ŭ konghwaguk” (“The Republic of Apartments”, Seoul, Humanitas, 2007), “Atlas de Séoul” (a geographical monograph of Seoul as a megacity, 2011), and “Korea, Koreas: a situated geography of the division” (2012).
Tong Lam, a historian and visual artist from the University of Toronto Mississauga, will discuss his use of photographic and cinematographic techniques to document China’s phenomenal growth, including images of the precarity of everyday life in a rapidly urbanizing village, the co-existence of affluence and dispossession, and the debris of history in industrial and post-industrial societies.
Ju Hui Judy Han, a cultural geographer of religion, mobility, and difference from the Department of Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough, will discuss the use of ethnographic nonfiction and digital storytelling to deepen our understanding of affective geographies and temporalities.
Co-sponsors: Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Department of Geography and Planning
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