Event overview
Part of the Department of Anthropology virtual seminar series autumn 2020/2021
Border-crossings: perspectives on migration, imagining mobility and the making of anthropology
This seminar aims to provide a forum for current issues around the idea of border-crossings in light of the ongoing pandemic. Through four guest speakers this session will engage with different perspectives within anthropology to think critically about how movement is played out within academia and the lived experiences of people such as migrants, marginalized groups and people of color. The seminar focuses on four questions the first of which asks what does border-crossing look/feel like now? Secondly, what does mobility mean during and after lockdown? Thirdly, in which ways are borders and border-crossings being performed? Lastly, how can anthropologists reimagine conducting research?
The Goldsmiths Anthropology department invites four guest speakers to engage in a round table discussion of these questions which will be expanded upon to include different fields of focus and interest by attendees. This open dialogue aims to address how anthropology can continue to critically engage with migrant/marginalized communities by challenging traditional theoretical and methodological models. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has created different modes of im/mobility such as detaining migrants in camps as well as placing these communities on the front line of exposure under the concept of “essential workers”. The seminar further explores how anthropologists can reimagine conducting research by thinking deeply about our own positionality of im/mobility as well as other structures of inequality within academia.
Guest Speakers: Dr. Magaña, Dr. Maldonado, Dr. Moodie and Dr. Selwyn
Convenors: Larisa Carranza and Orly Orbach
Taking place on Zoom 4pm-6pm Wednesday 11 November 2020.
www.gold.ac.uk/.../dept-seminars/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Nov 2020 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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