Our article -“It’s a bit like saying: I don’t see color”: Unpacking Coloniality in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) through Epistolary Collaborative Practice- was published this month in the journal Collaborative Anthropologies. Together with Laura Lennert Jensen this piece is based on a kind, thoughtful, and generous exchange via letters in 2020 […]
Publication
My contribution “Thoughts on: Relations and ways of reading across” to the 3-part seminar Childhood Publics And the Child’s Gaze is now available in podcast format. The seminar was organized by Melissa Nolas (Goldsmiths, University of London), Zoe Walshe (Goldsmiths, University of London), Brenda Herbert (Goldsmiths, University of London), and Elina […]
The visual essay “The Letter Project” was developed Laura Lennert Jensen and me, and can be understood as an alternative form of communicating research results that goes beyond text. It brings to life the academic article “It’s a bit like saying: I don’t see colour” — Unpacking coloniality in Kalaallit […]
Very happy to have been part in co-developing the report “Comprehensive Policy-Brief to the EU Commission: Roadmap to Decolonial Arctic Research” together with a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers in my role as research associate the Research Institute for Sustainability in Potsdam: “The “Comprehensive Policy Brief to the EU […]
On May 11, “The Sociological Review Seminar Series: Childhood publics and the child’s gaze” invited Wendy Luttrell (The City University of New York), Melissa Nolas (Goldsmiths, University of London), and Anne Chahine (Research Institute for Sustainability Helmholtz Centre Potsdam) to speak at “Seminar 2 – Childhood publics: Children returning the […]
On 08.November 2022 I successfully defended my PhD thesis at the Anthropology Department at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark. The summary can be found in English and Kalaallisut down below. For a copy of the thesis frame or the articles, please contact me directly: mail@annechahine In search of decolonial ways: […]
I am happy to share that my article Future memory work: unsettling temporal Othering through speculative research practices was just published in the journal Qualitative Research. I am still working on making this open access, so, please contact me if you are interested in a copy. I would like to […]
The Digital Archive of Forgotten Memories (DAFM) was originally initiated by my lovely POEM colleague Inge Zwart and me, to propose a new format to communicate central themes of the POEM research project. The DAFM is envisioned as a participatory space to talk about the process of forgetting, where we would ask […]
I am delighted to announce that I’ll be joining the editorial board of the journal entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography, following an invitation by its amazing editors Melissa Nolas and Christos Varvantakis. I look forward to contributing to this experimental, open-access journal, focused on multimodal ethnographic theory and practice.
I am excited to have my short documentary “Memory Is Not About the Past”, developed as part of my MA dissertation at the Free University Berlin in 2016, published at JAF in their current issue. The Journal of Anthropological Films (JAF) publishes original, empirically-based contributions that present new insights to […]
Me and my fellow editors at NAFA Network, the quarterly newsletter of the Nordic Anthropological Film Association, are proud to announce that we are finally online. Starting with this edition, all future newsletters and their content will be published at nafanetwork.org – our new home. My personal favorite: The VA […]
Chapter contribution to the book “What’s Missing?: Collecting and Exhibiting Europe” in collaboration with my lovely POEM colleagues Susanne Boersma, Franziska Mucha, and Inge Zwart. The concept of the book was developed by the Museum of European Cultures Berlin and our chapter “The Archive of Forgotten Memories – A Participatory […]
Anthropology News was looking for critical anthropological perspectives on and around love and invited me to write a short piece about my short documentary Looking for Mr. Right Now from 2015. The article was published as part of the thematic series on “Love” in the Jan/Feb 2019 print and online […]
As a filmmaker, I really enjoyed screening my short documentaries at the NAFA (Nordic Anthropological Film Associaton) International Ethnographic Film Festival. Here I was given the chance to not only engage with a diverse film selection but also get to know a warm and welcoming crowd of people. Starting this […]
Article about an inspiring platform called The Creative Memory – a web-based project that “aims to archive all the intellectual and artistic expressions” of the Syrian revolution. I want to sincerely thank Sana Yazigi, founder of The Creative Memory for agreeing to this interview and sharing her insights and stories […]
Videoarticle about my shortfilm Power of the Past. A history of an East German family (3min45s | 2015 | Germany), published by the online platform zeitgeschichte-online. Link to article The collaborative platform „zeitgeschichte-online“, a project by the Centre for Contemporary History (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, ZZF) and the Berlin State Library […]
Publication of my short documentary “Looking for Mr. Right Now” in the second volume of the Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology with the title: Augmented Lives: Experiences in Mobility, Big Data, and Robotics. This peer-peer reviewed open-access journal continues to presents new research, written works, and short films that explore […]
Article on the exhibition Lee Miller – Photographs at the Martin Gropius Bau Berlin for the online platform Visual History which is part of the Centre for Contemprary History (ZZF) in Potsdam. Link to Article
Article on the exhibition Der Dritte Blick – Fotografische Positionen einer Umbruchsgeneration (The third angle – photographic standpoints of a generation in transition) at the city gallery Kiel for the online platform Visual History which is part of the Centre for Contemprary History (ZZF) in Potsdam. Link to article
In her twenties Anne Chahine had the chance to travel the world depending on where freelance work in the event industry would take her. The most loyal companion during that time was her camera, which helped her remember those trips as something more than sheer work. “Roaming the Cities” is […]