Orientation / Introductory Session 1 September 9-12h

Orientation

9:00 — Erik de Maaker, Masters Coordinator, and Cindy Schotte, Study Coordinator, will provide an orientation to the general requirements of the master’s program.

10:00 — Mark Westmoreland, Coordinator of the Visual Ethnography specialization, will introduce students to the VE program and provide an orientation to the course requirements.

Drawing Tutorial

10:30 — The VE team (Mark Westmoreland, Metje Postma, and Koen Suidgeest) will lead students through a series of drawing exercises. This will be the first skill we explore and consider as a technique to both train our vision (and other senses) and get to know our research field.

Drawing can combine text and image as well as facilitate an attunement of your sensory organs; you have to train your eyes and hands to make images, drawing emphasizes this in obvious ways. Mapping is another way to explore the social, cultural and natural environment of our subjects and explore their trajectories in that space.

11:00 — Students introduce themselves

11:30 — Coffee & Cookies – informal discussion