Category: Events

We are pleased to announce our first graduate colloquium organized by two of our graduate fellows, Shreya Maini and Cody Black. Centered around the theme of “Imprisoned & Post-Prison Lives,” this session highlights ethnographic concerns regarding issues of care and recovery among those who are incarcerated—broadly conceived—by the state. We are excited to be joined by Leela Prasad, Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University.

This is a private Zoom event with limited seating. If you are interested in attending, please register here. Since this is a small-group session with works-in-progress, please note that registering does not guarantee a virtual seat at the event.

To prepare for the talk, we will read the following works;

• “What Can Prisons Teach Us About Gandhi?”
• Prasad, Leela. 2019. “Ethical Resonance.” Journal of Religious Ethics 47 (2): 394–415. https://doi.org/10.1111/jore.12261.
• an untitled section from dissertation chapter by Cody Black, on chaos, voiced orientations, and becoming in South Korea. (distributed for limited participants)

In the spirit of the Ethnography Workshop, we invite the participants to learn about the speaker’s work, and offer generative feedback as to how these works may better address and speak to the current moment.

We are pleased to announce our first public event with these two of anthropology’s most provocative thinkers! Please join us by registering here. When people register they receive the link automatically.

To prepare for the talk, the members of the Ethnography Workshop discussed the selected works listed below. We invite you to learn about the speakers’ work and to think with them about the current moment.

For Laurence Ralph:

• Introduction and Appendix (on “ethnographic lettering”) from The Torture Letters (2020).
• (optional) Part 1 “The Black Box” (pp.13-56)
• A video produced from his book;

For Yarimar Bonilla:
The members of the Lab read two or more from the following four articles;

Looking forward to meeting you all at 1:30 pm on September 7!

Join us for the upcoming colloquium, presented by the Department of Cultural Anthropology and the Ethnography Workshop:

Shalini Shankar, Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies

Northwestern University

“Rethinking Immigration and Generation Z Futures: Competitive Childhood in the 21st Century”

Monday, March 2, 1:30PM, Friedl 225

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The Confessional Community: Violence and Survival in Mexico City’s Anexos | February 17, 2020 | 1:30PM | Friedl 225

Angela Garcia (Stanford University) will explore anexos, coercive drug treatment centers that have proliferated throughout Mexico City’s low-income neighborhoods, and their projects of communitarian survival.

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Join us for this upcoming seminar with Sowj Kudva!

Date:Thursday, February 13, 2020

Time: 1:15-3PM

Location: Duke East Campus, Friedl 225

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Conversations on Documentary: How Form Influences Function
This seminar explores how “reality” is represented in various forms of documentary (video, podcasting, comics). It will provide insights into documentary production, ethics, and production cultures. There will be a short presentation followed by an open discussion on the intersections of documentary and ethnography, and how to translate concepts into practice.

Please RSVP to Joella Bitter (joella.bitter@duke.edu) to receive the pre-circulated paper.