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<BODY style="FONT: 10pt Segoe UI; MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px"><BR>>>> "Pfeifer, Simone via Medianthro" <medianthro@lists.easaonline.org> 01.09.2021 13:44 >>><BR>Dear all,<BR><BR>I hope this will be relevant to some on this list and with apologies for crossposting.<BR><BR>We kindly invite you to the Symposium:<BR>Notions of Jihad Reconsidered: Perspectives on Media, Materiality, and Political Violence, at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz,  the Kunsthalle Mannheim and online, from 06-08 October 2021.<BR><BR>There will be artist talks, a keynote and panels on "Art and Political Violence", "Affective Archives", "Aesthetics of Jihad", "Ethnographic Perspectives on Imaginations and Materialities of Jihad", and "Notions of Jihad and the Production of Knowledge“.<BR><BR>See for the ful programme here: <A href="https://notions-of-jihad.uni-mainz.de/programme/">https://notions-of-jihad.uni-mainz.de/programme/</A><<A href="https://notions-of-jihad.uni-mainz.de/programme/?fbclid=IwAR2AuyfA01kewCPKSC5LS_VgwVIcU7Zw4ood6bQEllb9Gq7GhppJwZh8-ZE">https://notions-of-jihad.uni-mainz.de/programme/?fbclid=IwAR2AuyfA01kewCPKSC5LS_VgwVIcU7Zw4ood6bQEllb9Gq7GhppJwZh8-ZE</A>><BR>Please register here: <A href="https://notions-of-jihad.uni-mainz.de/registration/">https://notions-of-jihad.uni-mainz.de/registration/</A><<A href="https://notions-of-jihad.uni-mainz.de/registration/?fbclid=IwAR2dkh1yTfwgPCtzC_La3K3GBIfOJsuJySsfs2ZV-bEKZ1JyIAqYT1TbDI0">https://notions-of-jihad.uni-mainz.de/registration/?fbclid=IwAR2dkh1yTfwgPCtzC_La3K3GBIfOJsuJySsfs2ZV-bEKZ1JyIAqYT1TbDI0</A>><BR><BR><BR>The symposium explores how different notions of jihad and political violence have entered and been shaped by discursive formations in academia, media, and the arts. It takes the aesthetic dimensions of images and sounds that have emerged over the last 20 years in the engagement with 9/11 and its aftermath as a starting point to rethink the various notions of jihad and its relation to political violence. Bringing together international scholars, artists, and curators, the symposium critically examines the ways in which the concept of jihad has been studied, covered, and resisted by different actors. It discusses how notions of jihad are conditioned by and manifest in practices of knowledge production by a wide range of social actors around the world.<BR><BR>We are looking forward to your participation!<BR><BR>Best,<BR>Simone<BR><BR><BR>*****<BR>Dr. Simone Pfeifer<<A href="https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb07-ifeas-eng/simone-pfeifer/">https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb07-ifeas-eng/simone-pfeifer/</A>><BR>Postdoctoral Researcher (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)<BR>Department of Anthropology and African Studies<BR>Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz<BR>Forum universitatis 6<BR>D-55099 Mainz<BR><BR>*****<BR>CURATED WEBSITE:<BR>2021 (with Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann) reCLAIM<<A href="http://reclaim-platform.de/">http://reclaim-platform.de/</A>>: Art as Resistance Against Political Violence<BR><BR>NEW BOOKS:<BR>2020 (with Christop Günther, eds.) Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: Meanings, Aesthetics, Appropriations<<A href="https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/47099/external_content.pdf?sequence=1">https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/47099/external_content.pdf?sequence=1</A>>. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.<BR>2020 Social Media im transnationalen Alltag<<A href="https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4321-3/social-media-im-transnationalen-alltag/">https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4321-3/social-media-im-transnationalen-alltag/</A>>. Zur medialen Ausgestaltung sozialer Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Senegal. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.<BR><BR>NEW ARTICLES & BLOGPOSTS :<BR>2021 (with Ulf Neumann). In/Visible Images of Mobility: Sociality and Analog–Digital Materiality in Personal Archives of Transnational Migration<<A href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08949468.2021.1944770">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08949468.2021.1944770</A>>. In: Visual Anthropology 34 (4): 317-338.<BR>2021 How Can You Approach the Field Digitally?<<A href="https://digitalethnography.at/2021/04/29/how-can-you-approach-the-field-digitally-reflections-on-using-social-media-profiles-in-ethnographic-research/#more-532">https://digitalethnography.at/2021/04/29/how-can-you-approach-the-field-digitally-reflections-on-using-social-media-profiles-in-ethnographic-research/#more-532</A>> Reflections on Using Social Media Profiles in Ethnographic Research (DEI Blog).<BR>2020 (with Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann and Patricia Wevers). Re-enacting Violence: Contesting Public Spheres with Appropriations of IS Execution Videos<<A href="https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/47099/external_content.pdf?sequence=1#page=216">https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/47099/external_content.pdf?sequence=1#page=216</A>>. In: Christoph Günther und Simone Pfeifer (eds.). Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: Aesthetics, Meanings, Appropriations. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 175-195.<BR><BR><BR>******************************************<BR><BR>EASA Media Anthropology Network<BR><A href="https://easaonline.org/networks/media/">https://easaonline.org/networks/media/</A><BR><BR>To manage your subscription to this mailing list, visit:<BR><A href="http://lists.easaonline.org/listinfo.cgi/medianthro-easaonline.org">http://lists.easaonline.org/listinfo.cgi/medianthro-easaonline.org</A></BODY></HTML>