Fieldwork at the University of Oxford
Maxime Le Calvé Reports on his Time as Visiting Scholar Funded by OX:BER Flex-Fund Scheme
Paper field notes at the University of Oxford, November 2023. Copyright: Maxime Le Calvé
MoA Member Maxime Le Calvé spent nine weeks back in the fall of 2023 as an invited scholar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography of the University of Oxford, funded by the OX:BER »Flex-Fund« scheme (BUA). He presented an exhibition with twenty-eight ethnographic drawings from his study of neurosurgical experience in the ex-Tylor library, co-curated with Elizabeth Hallam (see link to the digital prepublication). He was invited to give an accompanying research seminar at the Visual and Material Museum Anthropology program at the Pitt-Rivers Museum: »Sketching Brains. A Participant Graphic Anthropology of Neurosurgery.«
As a supporting program to the exhibition, he has led with Elizabeth Hallam a series of four workshops for researchers and students, around the practices of drawing and 3D sketching, as well as a writing class for the DPhil of the Medical Anthropology program.
Please find all field notes from Oxford on Maxime's website.