Keynote Speaker
Catastrophe and More-than-Human Worlds
By Prof. Yael Navaro
Time: 22 Feb (Sat) 14:00-15:30 (along with the PGSF closing ceremony)
Venue: Room LT9, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA)
Registered Audience Only
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Abstract: ‘Memory’ has been the overarching framework for anthropological studies of political violence in its long durée. But, until more recently, ‘memory’ was conceptualised in a human-centred way, with works on loss, trauma, their social construction, cultural mediation, and collective commemoration. In this lecture, I ask if memory’s qualities and associations may be studied across ‘more-than-human’ worlds in sites of catastrophe and its aftermaths. Reflecting on the evidentiary limitations on research in the aftermath of catastrophe, when the human witnesses have been absented or silenced, I explore memory’s ‘other-than-human’ and ‘more-than-secular’ possibilities. Threading my ethnographic work on the aftermath of the Armenian genocide through with the aftermath of the recent earthquake in south Turkey, I ask if ‘more-than-human’ beings, ‘non-human’ things, and ‘more-than-secular’ entities may be incorporated in memory’s conceptual work and evidentiary potentialities.
Prof. Yael Navaro is a social anthropologist on politics, the state, and violence and its aftermaths. Currently she is a professor of social, political and psychological anthropology in the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University. She has contributed to crafting an affective, spatial and material approach for the study of postwar environments, embedding social, political, and psychological anthropology through new methodologies. Regionally, her work has focused on social and political life in Turkey and Cyprus, and she has a continuing interest in ethnographically studying politics and the aftermath of violence in the everyday of the region.
Further information on Prof. Yael Navaro can be checked in: https://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-yael-navaro
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