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DESCRIPTION:Haidy Geismar will speak in the Brown Bag Lunch series on\nThur
 sday\, September 24\, 2015. Her talk is entitled “From Material to Digital
 :\nNew Directions in Material Culture and Museum Studies.”\n\nHaidy Geisma
 r is Reader in Anthropology at University\nCollege London\, where she dire
 cts the Digital Anthropology program\, part of the\nMaterial\, Visual and 
 Digital culture research arm of the department\, and\ncurates the UCL Ethn
 ography Collections. Currently\, she is a Research Fellow at\nBard Graduat
 e Center. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from University College\nLondon.
  With extensive research experience in museums in the Pacific\, Europe\nan
 d North America and with communities in Vanuatu and New Zealand\, she has 
 published\nwidely on the museum history of anthropology and photography\, 
 material culture\nstudies\, intellectual and cultural property rights\, in
 digenous arts movements\,\nand digital museum initiatives. As well as teac
 hing\, research and publishing\,\nshe has curated several international ex
 hibitions\, most recently the Guantanamo\nPublic Memory Project exhibition
  in London\, and the exhibition Port Vila\nMi Lavem Yu\, in Honolulu and N
 ew York. Her book\, Moving Images: John\nLayard\, Fieldwork and Photograph
 y on Malakula since 1914\, coauthored with\ncurators in Cambridge and Vanu
 atu\, was awarded the 2012 Collier Prize for Still\nPhotography by the Soc
 iety for Visual Anthropology. Her most recent book\, Treasured\nPossession
 s: Indigenous Interventions into Cultural and Intellectual Property (Duke
 \nUP\, 2013)\, compares indigenous appropriations of intellectual and cult
 ural\nproperty in museum and art worlds in Vanuatu and New Zealand. She is
  the\nfounder and editor of the popular anthropology weblog\, www.material
 worldblog.com\,\nand co-editor of the Journal of Material Culture. Her cur
 rent research\nproject is a comparative study of the nature of digital obj
 ects in contexts as\nvaried as Instagram\, Maori-made 3D collections\, and
  open source collections\nmanagement systems.\n\nAt Bard Graduate Center\,
  Professor Geismar will speak on\n“From Material to Digital: New Direction
 s in Material Culture and Museum\nStudies.” She will set out the agenda fo
 r her research into the nature of\ndigital objects\, with a specific focus
  on museum and archiving projects. The\nbook she will be working on while 
 in residence at Bard Graduate Center will\nlink several case studies to an
  extended essay on the implications and\ncontributions of digital technolo
 gies for material culture theory. It proposes\na new methodology and criti
 cal perspective on the growing literature around\ndigital projects in muse
 ums through an ethnographic examination of the nature\nof digital material
 ities and of the making and use of digital objects. In her\ntalk\, Dr. Gei
 smar will draw on a number of digital museum projects and address\nsome cu
 rrent trends in material culture theory\, arguing that a focus on the\nnat
 ure of digital materialities can pull us out of interpretive traps\nsurrou
 nding our understanding of digital objects. As a case study\,\nshe will fo
 cus on a lengthy research project with Maori artists and\ncommunities in N
 ew Zealand that used digital technologies to reframe and\nreconnect ethnog
 raphic collections to “source communities.” Focusing on an\nunprovenanced 
 Maori cloak in the UCL Ethnography collections\, she will question\nthe cu
 ltural nature of the digital\, and present some alternative cultural\nanal
 ytics for understanding and experiencing digital collections.\n\nCoffee an
 d tea will be served\; attendees are welcome to\nbring their own lunch.RSV
 P is required.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: From Material to Digital:
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