RAI Film Festival and Conference

Serendipitously following recent SM posts on Rouch, I just received this notice which might be of interest to Savage Minds readers:

Beyond Text: Synaesthetic and Sensory Practices in Anthropology is nearly sold out so if you are planning to attend you should register asap to ensure a place. There are still quite a few places for the Film Festival left. Prices have been kept deliberately low Film Festival £59 (£39 students and concs). Beyond Text Conference £89 (£59 students and concs). Register now to ensure your place
http://www.raifilmfest.org.uk/registration.htm

For latest details of sessions and speakers and a provisional conference timetable see: http://www.raifilmfest.org.uk/conference.htm

Strong is Thomas Strong, lecturer in the department of anthropology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He has previously held teaching and/or research posts at the University of Helsinki, the University of California, San Francisco, the University of Wisconsin, and (oddly enough) the American Academy of Ophthalmology. His publications include essays on the symbolism of blood and body in the U.S. and elsewhere, new cross-disciplinary work on kinship, and ideas of culture loss and bodily detumescence amongst the Dano-speakers of Papua New Guinea's eastern highlands province. His on-going research in PNG concerns transformations in sociality, gender relations, and personhood following the mid-twentieth-century repudiation of the traditional men's cult in the upper Asaro valley. His other interests include 'brand' as an ethnographic and analytic concept, HIV/AIDS (especially in the U.S. gay male community), and celebrity/fame.