Affiliation
bhodges@um.edu.mo
Tel
+853 8822 8973
Office
Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS)
University of Macau
Avenida da Universidade,Taipa, Macao
Room: Humanities & Social Sciences Building (E21),2053
Consultation Hours
Personal Website
Benjamin Kidder Hodges
Assistant Professor
Administrative Roles
Faculty of Social Sciences Honours College Coordinator
Chair, Equipment & Technology Committee, Department of Communication
Member, Departmental Executive Committee, Department of Communication
Academic Qualifications
Ph.D.(Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies, University of Texas at Austin, United States.)
M.A. (Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies, University of Texas at Austin, United States.)
B.A. (New College of Florida, United States.)
Research Interests
Anthropology, Visual Culture, New Media and Technology, Film, Conceptual Art and Photography
Teaching Areas
Publications
B. Hodges (2021) “Atmospheric Visions: mirages, methane seeps and ‘clam-monsters’ in the Yellow Sea,” Shima Volume 16 no. 1 DOI: 10.21463/shima.132
B. Hodges (2021) Ghost trains: past and future mobilities haunting a Southern Town, Mobilities, DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1947153
B. Hodges (2020) “Looking at the Sea through a window: land reclamation and art installation in Macao, China” in Shima Volume 14 no. 2 ISSN: 1834-6057
B. Hodges (2018) “Kick the Dead Rabbit: Tuxedos, Movies, and Cosmopolitan Urban Imaginaries in Macao” in Wider Screen special issue: City imaginings and urban everyday life ISSN: 1795-6161
B. Hodges (2017) “Tourism and a Virtual Bulgaria” in Tourist Utopias: Offshore Islands, Enclave Spaces, and Mobile Imaginaries Editor Simpson, T. Amsterdam University Press.
B. Hodges (2012) Book review of “Ecologies of Comparison: An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong” by Tim Choi, published in The Journal of Anthropological Research
B. Hodges (2002) Memories of Invisibility, Text, Practice, Performance Austin, TX
2015 University of Macau Multi Year Research Grant “Vague Details: Ethnographic images of Computing and Bulgaria”
2009 University of Macau Research Grant “Eurovisions: a study of the Eurovision Song contest in Moscow, Russia” May 2009.
2006 International Research Exchange (IREX) Individual Research Grant Sofia, Bulgaria.
2005 University Continuing Tuition Fellowship University of Texas at Austin.
2004 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) University of Texas at Austin (also awarded in 2002, 2001, and 2000).
2003 Fulbright Fellowship Sofia, Bulgaria.
2001 Bruton Fellowship University of Texas at Austin.
October 23, 2019 presented a talk “Bulgaria – A History and Future in film” at Moon Chun Memorial College as part of their MCMC EU Lecture Series and MCMC Fellows’ Salon
January-April 2018 “Theories of Communication” wrote and produced a six part video course for the University of Macau’s General Education course Communication Skills and Leadership. [Completion of this course will be required of all students enrolled at UM starting in the 2018-19 academic year.]
November 2017 Kick the Dead Rabbit: Tuxedos, Movies, and Cosmopolitan Urban Imaginaries in Macao Department of Communication Research Seminar Series, University of Macau.
September 2015 Monumental Gestures: New Bodies and Publics in Sofia, Bulgaria, Department of Communication Research Seminar Series, University of Macau.
June 2010 International Communication Association ICA Conference Virtually Urban: Modeling the City and the Public in “The Ecologies of the City: Urban Matters of Communication” Singapore.
July 2009 The 16th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences User Generated Ethnography: Learning from the Visual Culture of Open Source Communities in “Towards An Epistemology Of Media In Ethnographic Film” Kunming, China. presented on the role of community in 3d animation
November 2008 American Anthropological Association Impossible Futures: Reflections on the Visual Culture of Bulgarian Pop(Folk) in “Engaging Images: Inscription, Negotiation, and Re-Contextualization in Visual Productions” San Francisco, U.S.A. presented on Bulgarian Pop Culture
October 2007 European Broadcaster’s Union Open Source Software for professionals Geneva, Switzerland
June 2006 Vision Conference “Blender in Real-Time: Open source game design” Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
February 2006 Southwest Popular Culture and American Culture Association “The Living Room: Reality, Television, and the Post-Socialist Home” Albuquerque, New Mexico.
October 2005 Americo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium “Walking Around with a Gun in Your Hand: Gaming in Post-Socialist Bulgaria” Austin, Texas.
August 2003 South East Europe Conference “Imaging the Balkans” Pamporovo, Bulgaria.
2003 Berlin Fulbright Conference “Balkan Futures: Development Discourse in Pre-E.U. Bulgaria” presented research on Bulgarian popular media Berlin, Germany.
2002 Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads Conference “Tricks of the Trade” presented Masters Thesis on the culture of sharing tutorials and learning techniques Tampere, Finland.
February 2002 Slavic Languages Graduate Conference “Letter to America: Diasporic Narratives from Bulgaria’s Brain Drain’ presented paper on diasporic youth in Bulgaria
“American in Sofia” Center for Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies Newsletter vol. 28 (2001) 32-41
Independence Day” Egoist vol. 35 (2001) 67-83 published an article on everyday life in Sofia, Bulgaria
2001 Out of Bounds Conference on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity “Memories of Invisibility: an archeology of digital imagery” Austin, Texas
May 2001 American Ethnological Society and the Canadian Academy of Sciences Conference “Shopping in Real-time: On-line Shopping and New Consumer Publics,” presented research on encryption and on-line shopping Montreal, Canada.
October 1998 Conference on Visual Anthropology “Mounting Time”presented ethnographic film on the art of taxidermy Philadelphia, PN.