Our Visual Anthropology Fellow Yohannes Mulat Mekonnen will be contributing to the upcoming European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA) Third Biennial Conference on June 11–13, themed Anthropologies and Psychologies in Inter/Action – Engaging Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
Yohannes will be organizing a Walking Lab at the conference, focused on ethical and methodological innovation in the use of audiovisual tools in fieldwork.
Title of the Lab: Looking Back: A Practice of Counter-Gaze
Audio-visual and related representation technologies are no longer at the periphery of social research methodologies. Beyond their significant contribution to knowledge production and dissemination, these media, like any other tools, introduce their own set of challenges in researching the human experience. One key issue is the hierarchy these tools impose in fieldwork, the one in possession of the recording device often assumes a position of Power over the subject being recorded.
This audio-visual lab invites participants to engage in an experimental exercise that makes visible the power dynamics embedded in the act of looking through a camera lens.
https://www.uni-muenster.de/ENPA2025
📍 Conference Dates: June 11–13
📍 Location: Universität Münster, Schlossplatz 2, 48149 Münster