Register for session one here.Register for session two here.
Moderator:
Yun Emily Wang, Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology, Duke University
Speaker(s):
Deborah Kapchan, Professor, Performance Studies, New York University
Cassandra Hartblay, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Toronto Scarborough
Ethnography happens through bodily engagement with people and the world. However, the capacious role of body in mediating and medicated ethnography often remains marginal in how ethnography is imagined and pursued. How can we listen and perform ethnography when we can no longer assume continuities of time, space and identities? What does our fractured forms of being and belonging in the current moment teach us about mediated forms of (dis)abilities? How does engagement with the body allow us to imagine ethnography in new ways? How might we lean into the affordances of syncopations—offset time— in a moment already marked by disjuncture?
This two-session event (October 1 and 5) is an experiment in form. All sessions will be recorded, with a possibility for broadcasting later. Registered participants can join us for either of, or both, the sessions.
Session One, October 1, Thursday, 9 – 10 am, EST.
The two speakers will each speak for 15 min, followed by an open dialogue with registered participants. We encourage all the participants come prepared and invested to build an intimate and intense session.
Session Two, October 5, Monday, 1:30 – 3 pm, EST.
We will start the session by streaming the recording of the first session for an hour. An open discussion with the Ethnography Workshop fellows will follow, during which we will also field questions and musings. The discussion session will be recorded and shared with the two speakers with possibility (but not responsibility!) of further conversations.
Readings (updated on Sep 26):
- Kapchan, Deborah. “Aesthetics of Promixity” (chapter-in-progress, limited circulation)
- Hartblay, Cassandra. 2019. “Disability Expertise: Claiming Disability Anthropology.” Current Anthropology 61 (S21): S26–36. https://doi.org/10.1086/705781.
- Hartblay, Cassandra. “I Was Never Alone.”
Optional: The fellows workshopped chapters from Theorizing Sound Writing.
- Kapchan, Deborah A. 2017. “The Splash of Icarus: Theorizing Sound Writing/Writing Sound Theory.” In Theorizing Sound Writing. Wesleyan University Press.
- Kapchan, Deborah A. 2017. “Listening Acts: Witnessing the Pain (and Praise) of Others.” In Theorizing Sound Writing. Wesleyan University Press.
- Kapchan, Deborah. 2015. “Body.” In Keywords in Sound. Edited by David Novak and Matt Sakakeeny. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822375494.
- Wong, Deborah. 2017. “Deadly Soundscapes: Scripts of Lethal Force and Lo-Fi Death.” In Theorizing Sound Writing. Wesleyan University Press.
