Dear all,

I hope you are well and staying safe. I am writing to invite you to a hybrid event in Berlin about Filming as a research method. The event is funded by /Federal Ministry of Education and Research/ and
organized by the /Institute of East Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Free University Berlin/
*You can download the poster for details of the event using this link - **https://quamafa.de/files/2022/04/filmingfieldwork-4.pdf <https://quamafa.de/files/2022/04/filmingfieldwork-4.pdf> **or Please see the details below:*


*Filming fieldwork*

/Megha Wadhwa in conversation with Andy Lawrence/

*Hybrid Event*

June 24, 2022 (Friday)13:00 - 14:00 (CEST)

In recent years and also in migration studies, filming is being used as an important tool for research and to let the voice of people reach a larger audience. This event will discuss various whys and hows of the filming process and the challenges on this path. Important issues such as ethics and distribution of the work on various platforms will also be covered. This conversation will be helpful for anyone who intends to use ethnographic documentary techniques for research or other filming projects.
Join us in this conversation with - Andy Lawrence <https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/andrew-lawrence(b9b6421f-9d2d-4f9b-8611-ac1c6ea23126)/publications.html> who is a senior lecturer at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester in the UK, where he is also filmmaker-in-residence. He is a founding member of the Filmmaking for Fieldwork (F4F) <https://filmmakingforfieldwork.co.uk/home> collective where he convenes and teaches the annual F4F™ Summer School. His films about childbirth, death, adolescence, old age, adventure and identity in the UK, India and Peru look at the uncertainty that surroundsmomentous and life changingexperiences. Currently, Andy is producing Jón Bjarki Magnússon's film /Half Elf / <https://filmmakingforfieldwork.co.uk/half-elf>//and co-editing a new book entitled, /Empirical Art: Filmmaking for Fieldwork in practice/ (expected 2024). This follows his recent publication of /Filmmaking for fieldwork: a practical handbook/ (2020) from Manchester University Press.
*Please register using the following link: **https://bit.ly/filmingfieldwork* <https://bit.ly/filmingfieldwork>**
*/The event will be followed by (in-person) film screening of a documentary made by Megha Wadhwa/**/ and editorial support by f4f Education &Projects/**/ (14:15 - 15:30). More details about the documentary will be released first week of June./*
Contact: megha.wadhwa@fu-berlin.de
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The event is part of the BMBF-Funded project '*/Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia' (https://quamafa.de) /*organized by the /Institute of East Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Free University Berlin/

Looking forward to seeing you in-person or virtual/.

Sincere Regards,

Megha Wadhwa, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Institute of East Asian Studies
Japanese Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
Hittorfstr. 18
14195 Berlin
Germany

Phone: +49 30 838- 51409

Visiting Fellow
Institute of Comparative Culture
Sophia University Tokyo

Current Project - https://quamafa.de/blog/our-team/megha-wadhwa/ <https://quamafa.de/blog/our-team/megha-wadhwa/>


Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious, and Working Worlds <https://www.routledge.com/Indian-Migrants-in-Tokyo-A-Study-of-Socio-Cultural-Religious-and-Working/Wadhwa/p/book/9780367896836> (Routledge 2021)

In the Age of COVID-19 - Indian restaurants and the Indian cooks in Japan <https://apjjf.org/-Megha-Wadhwa/5479/article.pdf> (The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 2020)

Collection of articles for The Japan Times
<https://www.japantimes.co.jp/author/megha-wadhwa/>