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"Un-Doing Images":  A certificate course during Winter Semester 2015/16

BAYREUTH ACADEMY OF ADVANCED AFRICAN STUDIES - Certificate Course - WINTER SEMINAR 2016 Un-Doing Images in cooperation with the DEPARTMENT OF MEDIA STUDIES / UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH

CONCEPTUALIZATION AND CONVENER:  
MARIAM POPAL, PHD -

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH & AMERICAN STUDIES/UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH
SUBPROJECT IV OF THE BAYREUTH ACADEMY//

In conjunction with one of  its projects and in intense cooperation with the Department of Media Studies/University of Bayreuth, the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies hosts its  Winter Seminar and Certificate Course Un-Doing Images.
The Seminar is a term long event. It comprises a series of sessions en bloc throughout the term as well as a two-day workshop that comprises on the one hand a wider spectrum of theoretical insights into different approaches of film theory and semiotics and encompasses on the other hand pre- and post-production works in film editing, specifically in the process of a (documentary) film in the making. The seminar will thus link Theory and Praxis in the production of images and knowledge. The participants are exclusively mainly graduate and PhD students involved in English, French, Literary Theory and Media Studies. They actively take part in the workshop by giving an either theoretical or praxis-related presentation and by conducting specific tasks while doing the film, in its pre as well as post-production processes.  The Bayreuth Academy gives hereby  an insight about its work within its different projects in the Academy and links its work to the different Departments of the University and its students. Furthermore, the seminar  seeks to be a forum of creativity and in-depth discussion rounds in the process of the film-making. The successful attendance of the Winter Seminar is sealed by a Winter Seminar Course Certificate regarding theoretical and praxis oriented studies around meaning production and film-making by the end of the term.