NEWS
SPECIALIZATION IN PARTICIPATORY MEDIA CULTURE
At the meeting of the ELTE Senate on 14 November 2022, a decision was made in favour of the specialisation in Participatory Media Culture, which will be launched from September 2023 at the Department of Media and Communication at ELTE. The Participatory Media Culture specialisation builds on the 4 years long research supported by the (Hungarian) National Research, Development and Innovation Office (aka National Scientific Research Fund). The research was carried out within the framework of the Minor Media/Culture Research Centre.
At the meeting of the ELTE Senate on 14 November 2022, a decision was made in favour of the specialisation in Participatory Media Culture, which will be launched from September 2023 at the Department of Media and Communication at ELTE. The Participatory Media Culture specialisation builds on the 2 years long talent care program in the Roma Visual Lab (led by András Müllner) and a 4 years long research supported by the (Hungarian) National Research, Development and Innovation Office (aka National Scientific Research Fund). The research was carried out within the framework of the Minor Media/Culture Research Centre.
The aim of the research is to explore the history and contemporary practices of participatory media culture. As the research has a theoretical and historical as well as action-oriented research aspect (in the form of participatory media projects), the specialisation “Participatory Media Culture” which will emerge from this research, also provides theoretical and practical knowledge. Our aim is to train professionals who can work effectively as facilitators of arts- based participatory action researches, collaborating with social researchers and civil communities. As an interdisciplinary course-package, the specialisation includes disciplines such as theories and practices of participatory and community media, theory and history of visual interventions (with a special focus on media part), participatory aspects of new media, participatory and community journalism, media anthropology, visual and performative participatory methodologies, media theory and media history, media representation of minorities, in this context critical race studies, critical whiteness studies, etc.
CONFERENCE
The „Visual intervention and participatory research: visuality – action – participation” conference was organized by the Minor Media/Culture Research Centre, as final event of its 4 years long research „The history and current practices of Hungarian participatory film culture, with an emphasis on the self-representation of vulnerable minority groups”. The research was funded by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (ID: 131868). More support from the Dean of the ELTE Humanities, and ELTE Humanities Local Student Government.
ELTE Humanities, Budapest, 20-21 Oct, 2023. Facebook: https://fb.me/e/3QgWG5Pf2
PROGRAM
20 Oct, 2023 a.m.
9:30-10:00 Registration
10:00 -10:15 Opening. András Müllner (ELTE Humanities, Department of Media and Communication, Minor Media/Culture Research Centre)
10:15-10:45 Anna Gács (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Sociology and Media): Creative roles in recent Hungarian participatory filmmaking. The discussion will be chaired by András Müllner.
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:20 Sections
A. Chair: József Kotics György
Málovics –Judit Juhász –Zoltán Bajmócy (University of Szeged, Research Centre at the Faculty of Economics): Planning for the institutionalisation of participatory teaching and research: institutional-level assessment and planning of university community engagement
Attila Bátorfy (ELTE Humanities, Department of Media and Communication): Critical approaches to graphical representation of data
Klára Gulyás (Reformed Theological Academy of Sárospatak): Application of visual methods in teaching social and educational sciences
B. (online). Chair: Éva Gaján
Márton Árva (ELTE Humanities, Department of Spanish Language and Literature): Community and Participatory Moving Images in the Spanish Civilization Seminar
Annamária Torbó (University of Pécs, Department of Communication and Media): Research on participation in popular culture. From participatory culture to participatory politics
Krisztina Varga (ELTE Doctoral program of Film-, Media- Cultural Studies): Participatory tendencies in the museum
12:20 – 13:20 Lunch break
20 Oct 2023. p.m.
13:20 – 13:50 Sára Haragonics –Márton Oblath (ELTE Humanities, Department of Media and Communication, Minor Media/Culture Research Centre). The discussion will be chaired by Klára Trencsényi.
13:50 – 15:10 Sections
A. Chair: Klára Gulyás
József Kotics (University of Miskolc, Institute for Cultural and Visual Anthropology) Photographs, participatory research, local identity. Lessons learned from the research and exhibition „Talking Pictures”: community life in Borsodgeszt in the light of last century’s photographs
Anna Balázs (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Doctoral program of Design Culture and Science Department) – Ferenc Hain (PhD, John Wesley Theological College): Methodological experiences of a participatory local history research
Ildikó Tamás: Discourses of „cultural appropriation”. The Sami people and their attributions in Scandinavian and international media
B. Chair: György Málovics
Éva Gaján (ELTE Doctoral program of Film-, Media- Cultural Studies): Amateur filmmakers in Szentendre in the 1970s and 80s
Odett Eck and Eszter Ágnes Szabó (ELTE Savaria University Centre Berzsenyi Dániel Teacher Training Centre, Department of Visual Arts): Red, Yellow, Green, Blue – Sky, Earth, Fire, Water. Case study of a design workbook for language competence development
Ágnes Bozsó (ELTE Department of Film Studies): Gandhi Gipsy Film Studio. Participatory film workshop at Gandhi High School
Klára Trencsényi – Erzsébet Fanni Tóth (Sigmund Freud University): „My grandmother’s cherry tree”. Reflections on the family objects and stories that emerged during a participatory film workshop for young people at Sigmund Freud University in Vienna
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 18:00 Workshops
A. YOUCOUNT Civil Social Science: community gardening and participatory filming in Siklósbodony – Ms. Barta Gina Somogyi, Márton Oblath, Sári Haragonics, Ágnes Bozsó, Dominika Ágoston
B. Participatory video – Sári Haragonics
21 Oct, 2023 a.m.
10:00-11:20 Sections
A. Chair: Márton Oblath
Gabriella Csoszó independent photographer: Pictures of participation. Issues of identity, connections, personhood, communities, the public sphere, responsibility and equality in photography, community and student (self)evaluation on campus
Gábor Pfisztner: How to do it with photographs… Photography as a social practice, a means of reflection and consciousness, Allan Sekula’s critical position, Azoulay’s „social contract”
Mercedes Kormos independent artist and teacher: Integrated communities – Furagura Project
B. Chair: Veronika Lajos
Gabriella Kiss (Budapest Corvinus University, Department of Decision Sciences), Orsolya Lazányi (ESSRG Nonprofit Ltd.), Ágnes Neulinger (University of Pécs), Tamás Veress (Budapest Corvinus University, Business Ethics Center): Eco Clubs: democratic circles for the sustainability transition
Gábor Rumann (Rippl-Rónai Institute of Art and Theatre – MATE, Control Studio Film Association): Participatory film as a teaching and creative method
11:20-12:00 Lunch break
12:00 – 15:00 Workshops Krisztina Katona (Mural Moral Association): The Mural Moral Method (community painting) as a tool for community development and democracy education; presentation of the prison project „I am a source” and the project „Baranya prospects”; intertwining community arts and community advocacy, participatory budget planning with children
Veronika Lajos, Blanka Barabás, Isabela Botezatu and Noémi Fazakas: On Moldovan Csángó women’s lifeworlds: multivocal representations (70-90 minute workshop)
Staff: Márk Benics, András Müllner, Réka Novozánszki, Bálint Óházy, Dávid Póczik, Boglárka Tóth, László Vörös
Minor Media/Culture Research Centre – Department of Media and Communication, ELTE
PUBLICATION The online and paper „Participatory Film” special issue of Film and Media Studies has been published in English. Link: https://sciendo.com/issue/AUSFM/23/1
Presentations The „Participatory Film” special issue of the Hungarian Replika journal was presented at the following events during 2022 and 2023:
Gólya Cooperative. Budapest, 16th Dec, 2022. Facebook: https://fb.me/e/36aeSFULr
Szabadkikötő. Pécs, 20th Feb, 2023. Facebook: https://fb.me/e/3k1zzMdDq
Conference of Hungarian Association of Film Studies. Eger, 3-4 Nov, 2023. Website: https://www.filmtudomanyitarsasag.hu/konferencia/sajat-boreben-enkepek-es-identitasok- mozgokepen-a-szemelyes-erintettsegre-alapozott-kozossegi-reszveteli-filmkeszites/
Museum of Ethnography. Budapest, 2 Jun, 2023. Facebook: https://fb.me/e/yAtVnW6H
Visual interventions
Screening and presentation of a book and journal issue organised by the Hungarian Society for Film Studies
Organizers: András Müllner (Eötvös Loránd University, Research Centre for Minor Media/Culture), Henriett Szabó (University of Debrecen, Balázs Lippai Roma College)
Supported by the Hungarian Ethnographic Museum and NaFilM (National Film Museum, Czech Republic)
Date: Friday 2 June 2023, 10:30 a.m.
Location: Hungarian Ethnographic Museum
Partners: Hungarian Ethnographic Museum, Hungarian Ethnographic Society, Hungarian Cultural Anthropological Society, NaFilM (Czech National Film Museum, Prague), Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Fund
Keynote speakers:
Research professor Dr. Margit Feischmidt, sociologist (Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Centre for Social Research)
University professor Dr. Zsolt Szijártó, media researcher, cultural anthropologist (University of Pécs, Department of Communication and Media Studies).
Recently, two publications have been published, which can be described as anthropological and autoethnographic visual interventions. The academic textbook Kisvilágok (Small Worlds) presents applied visual anthropological research at the University of Debrecen’s Lippai Balázs Roma College, while the participatory film studies collected in Replika special issue 124 present a media project at the Research Centre for Minor Media/Culture (Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Media and Communication), which can be described as autoethnographic and participatory in nature. During the first hour of the programme, films from both labs will be screened. After the films, the audience will listen to two 10-15 minute problem-solving presentations on the published volumes, followed by a discussion to find answers to the questions raised by the research.
Sponsors of the research behind the “Participatory Film” Replika special issue:
National Research, Development and Innovation Office. The title of the research is: History and current practices of participatory film culture in Hungary, with special emphasis on the self-representation of vulnerable minority groups. The research is led by András Müllner.
Visegrad Fund. Use of Augmented Reality (AR) in exhibitions and development of film and audiovisual education of young people. Consortium project leader: the Czech Film Museum (NaFilM). Hungarian consortium partner: ELTE Roma Visual Lab (film programme of the Research Centre for Minor Media/Culture).
References, websites:
AntRom Film Workshop https://gygyk.unideb.hu/node/507
Balázs Lippai Roma College: https://szakkollegiumok.unideb.hu/lippai-balazs-roma- szakkollegium-bemutatkozas
Biczó, Gábor – Zsolt Soós – Henriett Szabó (2022). Kisvilágok [Small Worlds], Hajdúböszörmény: University of Debrecen, Faculty of Child and Special Education, Lippai Balázs Roma College. https://gygyk.unideb.hu/konyvek
Minor Media/Culture Research Centre http://minormedia.hu/
Participatory film. Replika social science journal, issue 124 (2022) https://www.replika.hu/replika/124
Roma Visual Lab http://romakepmuhely.hu/en/home/
