Event overview
Matters of Violence & Repair: Repurposing Anthropology in Critical Times
The Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series will explore the theme "Matters of Violence & Repair: Repurposing Anthropology in Critical Times" in the Spring Term 2024. Please join us Wednesdays 4.30-6.30 pm in the Council Room, Laurie Grove Baths Building located on 6 Laurie Grove corner New Cross Road, SE14 6!
January 10
"Emergency Addendum: On Images of Gaza and Looking"
Film screening "Electrical Gaza" (2015) and discussion with Rosalind Nashashibi (Director), Minou Norouzi, University of Helsinki, & Alisa Lebow, University of Sussex.
This session is co-hosted by the Centre for Visual Anthropology.
January 17
"How many stories can a museum object tell? 100 Histories of 100 Worlds in 1 Object" with Mirjam S. Brusius, German Historical Institute London
January 24
"A farewell to haunting: Dynamics of indifference towards past violence in Turkish Cyprus" with Sergen Bahceçi, Goldsmiths
January 31
"Inheritance without Heritage: The Fig Trees and the Ecological Effects of Imaginative Attachments to Fetih (Conquest)" with Sertaç Sehlikoglu, UCL
February 7
"Ghostly Invasions: Political Theologies of Fire in Post-Coup Bolivia" with Mareike Winchell, LSE
February 21
"The Essential Inaccessibility of the Law: Autoimmunity and Terror in Imprisonments for Genocide Ideology in the New Rwanda” with Marcas Mag Oireachtaigh, UCL
February 28
"Living amid the ruined heritage: The material and spiritual imagination of (dis)possession in the border city of Mardin, Turkey" with Zerrin Özlem Biner, SOAS
March 6
"Underworlding: Methodologies of Survival and Repair from the Bosnian Karst" with Safet HadziMuhammedovic, University of Cambridge
March 13
CANCELLED - "50 Plaques & Places – Driving home the message of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" with Gloria Daniel, TTeach Plaques London - CANCELLED
March 20
"Violent Possessions: Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Knowledge" with Banu Karaca, EUME, Berlin
Image provided by Rosalind Nashashibi: Film still from Electrical Gaza (2015)
Dates & times
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| 10 Jan 2024 |
4:30pm - 6:30pm "Emergency Addendum: On Images of Gaza "Film screening of "Electrical Gaza" (2015). Discussion with Rosalind Nashashibi (Director), Minou Norouzi (University of Helsinki) and Alisa Lebow (University of Sussex) |
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| 17 Jan 2024 |
4:30pm - 6:30pm "How many stories can a museum object tell? 100 Histories of 100 Worlds in 1 Object" with Mirjam Brusius, German Historical Institute, London |
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| 24 Jan 2024 |
4:30pm - 6:30pm "A Farewell to Haunting: Dynamics of Indifference towards Past Violence in Turkish Cyprus" with Sergen Bahçeci |
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| 31 Jan 2024 |
4:30pm - 6:30pm "Inheritance without Heritage: The Fig Trees and the Ecological Effects of Imaginative Attachments to Fetih (Conquest)" with Sertaç Sehlikoglu, UCL |
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| 7 Feb 2024 |
4:30pm - 6:30pm "Ghostly Invasions: Political Theologies of Fire in Post-Coup Bolivia" with Mareike Winchell, LSE |
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| 21 Feb 2024 |
4:30pm - 6:30pm “The Essential Inaccessibility of the Law: Autoimmunity and Terror in Imprisonments for Genocide Ideology in the New Rwanda” with Marcas Mag Oireachtaigh, UCL |
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| 28 Feb 2024 |
4:30pm - 6:30pm "Living amid the ruined heritage: The material and spiritual imagination of (dis)possession in the border city of Mardin, Turkey" with Zerrin Özlem Biner, SOAS |
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| 6 Mar 2024 |
4:30pm - 6:30pm "Underworlding: Methodologies of Survival and Repair from the Bosnian Karst" with Safet HadziMuhammedovic, University of Cambridge |
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| 13 Mar 2024 |
4:30pm - 6:30pm CANCELLED - "50 Plaques & Places – Driving home the message of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" with Gloria Daniel, TTeach Plaques. The talk has been cancelled. Please note that there is an accompanying exhibition in the Constance Howard Gallery, Deptford |
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| 20 Mar 2024 |
4:30pm - 6:30pm "Violent Possessions: Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Knowledge" with Banu Karaca, EUME Berlin |
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