Audio-visual Justice: Making Sense of the Law in Guinea
Friday 10 November 2023, 12pm
Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture Theatre
Nomi Dave (University of Virginia)
How are claims for justice made through sound and image? This seminar considers how lawyers, journalists and everyday citizens use audio-visual technologies to present evidence, make arguments and render verdicts to the courts and the broader public. I trace a series of recent actions against perpetrators of sexual violence in the Republic of Guinea, in which sound and images were used to address the failures of formal legal systems. I consider how anthropologists can make sense of such elements and, in reference to my current project involving text and film, how such work may serve as a form of advocacy.
Pitt Rivers Museum Research Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology, Michaelmas 2023
Fridays, 12pm-1.30pm
In person at the Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture Theatre, except for Weeks 6 and 8, which are online only.
