The Visual Anthropology Network Meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropologists takes place on 13-14 May at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology on 13-14 May and will include a joint visit to the ethnocineca International Documentary Film Festival Vienna (8-14 May).

Over a period of 1.5 years, the Projekt We:Design worked together with young people to collect different perspectives on entering the world of work. In the process, the jointly designed app "APPly" for writing and organizing job applications was created.

Yehuda Sharim speaks about his film Letters2Maybe (2021) and provides insight into his narrative and cinematic approach that bears his artistic and socially engaged signature. The Israeli-born son of Persian immigrants offers intimate studies of immigration and displacement, visibility and invisibility, as well as the meaning of home and belonging in the United States.

"Participatory Digital Ethnography" - The discussion focus on the use of digital, visual, or multimodal methods in participatory research. During a public co-lecture, the two guest lecturers introduce their views on participatory research with examples from their own research. Taught by Darcy Alexandra (University of Bern) and Koen Leurs (Utrecht University)

On Wednesday 12th May 2021, at 3.00 pm, Pavel Borecký  (University of Bern) leads a Master Class on "Ecography: anthropological films and climate change" with students and staff of the Central European University and the University of Vienna.

On Tuesday 16 March 2021, at 5.30 pm, Dr. Ernst Karel (Harvard University) leads a Master Class on "Toward sonic ethnography?" with students and staff of the Central European University and the University of Vienna.

On Tuesday 19 January 2021, at 5.30 p.m, Arjun Shankar (Georgetown University) leads a Master Class on "Decolonizing multimodal anthropology and the politics of collaboration" for students and staff of the Central European University and the University of Vienna.

The Film Festival and Conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) in the UK will take place online on 19-28 March 2021.