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SUMMARY:Images as artefacts: film\, photography and repatriation in Kenya 
 - Sloan Mahone (University of Oxford)
DTSTART:20161006T120000Z
DTEND:20161006T130000Z
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:This discussion focuses on the conceptual and methodological i
 ssues at play when working with images from the past. Utilising a photogra
 phic case study from East Africa\, we consider historical context\, proven
 ance\, and intent. A series of photographs taken or obtained by Canadian p
 sychiatrist Edward L. Margetts in Kenya in the 1950s allow for a broad dis
 cussion of what photographs mean\; for the photographer\, the viewer\, and
  most poignantly\, the photographic subjects. We will work through a set o
 f images of the ancient surgical practice of trepanning the skull which wa
 s still being performed controversially in the 1950s in one region of Keny
 a. The traditional practice\, often extreme in its medical outcomes\, was 
 filmed\, photographed and even immortalized in soap stone carvings. The wi
 ldly divergent uses and interpretations of one set of images prompts us to
  ask questions about the use\, re-use and misuse of images over time.\n\nS
 uggested reading: Sloan Mahone\, '"Hat-on\, Hat-off": Trauma and Trepanati
 on in Kisii\, western Kenya'\, _Journal of Eastern African Studies_\, 2014
 .
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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