Anthropology Day virtual roundtable: February 18th

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For Anthropology Day in these coronavirus times, we'll be holding a virtual roundtable discussion on 'Anthropology as public citizenship' with anthropologists, ethnographers, activists and students. 

We'll be showcasing student ethnographic projects and hearing about cultivating empathy as well as developing a social structural sensibility and an appreciation of praxis. 

All are welcome!

Recording is prohibited. 

Anthropology as Public Citizenship: Virtual Roundtable Discussion
Time: Feb 18, 2021 04:00 PM La Paz

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 Programme

[5 mins] Welcome: ‘doingethnography@sta’, Shelene Gomes, PhD


[30 mins] Praxis and Activism

‘Social Integration and League for the Improvement of Migrants in Trinidad and Tobago’, Elron Elahie and Leanna Doodnath 

‘Dons & Artefacts: Archaeology & Historical Anthropology as Vehicles for Social Transformation’, John Shorter

[10 mins] Q&A


[30 mins] Empathy and Being ‘Culturally Aware’ 

‘Memory and Silence’, Nafeesa Syeed

Exploring the Potentials of Ethnography in Rethinking "Refugees": Making 'Aman (dignified safety) among Iraqi State-Bureaucrats Displaced in Jordan’, Laura Adwan, PhD

[10 mins] Q&A


[30 mins] Social Structure and the Liberal Arts 

‘The Practice of Critique’, Scott Timcke, PhD

‘Minoritarian Liberalism’, Moises Lino e Silva, PhD 

[10 mins] Q&A

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Speaker Bios

Dr. Laura Adwan completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at Bergen University; an ethnographic account of Iraqis displaced in Jordan after the 2003 US-led invasion. Other research interests include Palestinian refugees, and living in conditions of uncertainty and change among rural and Bedouin communities. She teaches courses in migration and development, the anthropology of religion and the contemporary history of Palestine at Bethlehem University. 

Darcelle Leanna Doodnath is an educator specializing in Modern Foreign Language Pedagogy, and an alumna of Brown University, Rhode Island. She is the founder of the Spanish Teachers’ Association of Trinidad and Tobago and author of four textbooks. She writes for the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday on education. Leanna works on the integration of Spanish-speaking migrants in Trinidad and Tobago and is co-founder of the League for the Improvement of Families in Trinidad and Tobago (LIFTT). 

Elron Elahie is a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus in Trinidad and Tobago. Elron works with two local NGOs – CAISO: Sex and Gender Justice as well as starting the League for the Improvement of Families in Trinidad and Tobago (LIFTT) with Leanna Doodnath. He has done extensive research into the elements of procedural fairness in the court systems of the Judiciary of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (http://www.ttlawcourts.org/jeibooks/). 

Dr. Moises Lino e Silva works within the field of political anthropology, specializing in the ethnographic study of freedom and authority in relation to pressing topics such as poverty, sexuality, and religion. His first field research was centered on issues of liberalism as experienced by slum dwellers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

John Shorter is an anthropology graduate student at The University of the West Indies, Mona campus in Jamaica, specialising in archaeology. His research intersects bioarchaeology with medical history to investigate the impact of colonialism and slavery on the skeletal remains of enslaved Afro-Caribbean populations. He is a board member of the Archaeological Society of Jamaica (ASJ) and a research assistant at the Centre for Reparations Research.

Nafeesa Syeed is an award-winning journalist. She spent 15 years reporting from the U.S., South Asia, ‘Middle East’ and North Africa. She is co-author of Arab Women Rising. She is currently a visiting scholar at UCLA, and holds a BA from Georgetown University and MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Dr. Scott Timcke studies issues of race, class and social inequality as they arise in the areas of computation, calculation, and control in late capitalism. His approach to these topics is greatly shaped by South African and Caribbean critiques of the Anglo-American liberal tradition. His second book, Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life, is out this month with Bristol University Press.


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