This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology
The border is the shared topos of the anthropologist, the historian, the archaeologist, the artist, the musician and the poet, as they all bring into dialogue the past and future with the present, the inside with the outside, the particular with the general, ideas with the senses. This lecture explores border and trauma spaces through a journey of antiphonic witnessing and memory as a way of (re)establishing a self-reflexive relationship with the past that changes the positioning of the present. Drawing on 30 years of conscious and unconscious fieldwork, writing, teaching and practicing multimedia public anthropology, I reflect on my own antinomic subject position in my discipline as a so called “native,” or “indigenous” ethnographer and also as a diasporic, American-trained, post-Boasian anthropologist.
C. Nadia Seremetakis is Professor of Anthropology at the University of the Peloponnese. She has written seven books in both English and Greek, including The Last Word: Women Death & Divination in Inner Mani, The Senses Still: Perception and Memory as Material Culture in Modernity, and Sensing the Everyday.
Date | Time
November 23, 2022 | 12:15 – 1:30 PM [PST]
Free and open to the public
RSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday, November 23rd; you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM the day of the colloquium.