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<div><font size="+1"><b>Cristina Grasseni<br></b></font></div>
<div><i>Radcliffe Institute<br></i></div>
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<div><font size="4"><b>Skilled Visions: Critical Ecologies of Belonging<br></b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Monday, November 28th<br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">12:15-2:00 p.m.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room
106</font></div>
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<div><b>Abstract:</b>
<span lang="EN-GB">This
presentation will discuss the idea of applying the skilled visions approach to
collective strategies of self-representation, by </span><span>combining visual archive research with ethnographic sources in a project
about looking.</span><span lang="EN-GB"> The goal
is to develop a critical analysis of belonging, focusing on the visual
apprenticeship of stereotypes as a naturalization of social classification.</span><span lang="EN-GB"> The thesis is that there is a complex and tacit
competence at play in the mutual exercise of recognition, and that such “skilled
vision” feeds on comparison by context and on cultural training rather than on
a replicable repertoire of classificatory schemes. The business of “sorting
faces” depends on where we draw the implicit boundaries of the groups we are
identifying. </span><span>Our own capacity for
recognizing and ascribing membership of a certain group is a <i>skill</i> that is largely contextual,
socially inculcated and publicly performed. </span><span>The paper aims at
connecting the previous work on Skilled Visions with this work-in-progress
agenda, providing references from the relevant anthropological literature and
discussing some recent ethnographic material.</span>
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<div><b>Biography</b>:
<span lang="EN-GB"> Cristina
Grasseni is Assistant Professor of Social and Visual Anthropology at Bergamo
University, Italy.</span><span lang="EN-GB">Her
books <i>Skilled Visions: Between
Apprenticeship and Standards</i> (ed., Berghahn, Oxford, 2007) and <i>Developing Skill, Developing Vision:
Practices of Locality at the Foot of the Alps</i> (Berghahn, Oxford, 2009)
focus on visual apprenticeship as a form of relational and situated learning. </span><span>Her fieldwork with dairy breeders examined how
techno-scientific innovation and the reinvention of local foods as “heritage”
interact with local communities of practice.</span><span> Grasseni received a BA in philosophy, an MPhil in history and philosophy
of science, and a PhD in social anthropology with visual media from the
universities of Pavia, Cambridge, and Manchester, respectively. </span><span lang="EN-GB">Cosponsored by the Harvard Film
Study Center, this year Grasseni is developing a novel project at the Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Studies, as David and Roberta Logie Fellow.</span>
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