Dr. Arjun Shankar is an anthropologist, critical pedagogue, and mediamaker. As a visual anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker, he has been interested in developing decolonial participatory visual methodologies and in multimodal evaluation and publishing. He has primarily focused on the neocolonial politics of representation, global circulation, and reception of the "impoverished" and "suffering" child figure - and on new multimodal methods as alternatives to these paradigms. 

As a current editor with the multimodal section of American Anthropologist and an advocate for Curiosity Studies,  Shankar asks questions about the possibilities of non-textual knowledge production  and challenges us to think anew about scholarship, pedagogies, and the political role of the academician. 

During this online Master Class, Shankar will lead a conversation with students and staff of the CEU and University of Vienna. He will elaborate on the import of decolonial methodologies in multimodal anthropology, and support participants in pursuing collaborative research practices. 

When: Tuesday 19 January 2021, 5.30 p.m.

Where: Zoom

For whom: students and staff of the CEU and University of Vienna