[2015 flyer] “Aeolian Politics poetry workshop” offers the opportunity to explore relationships between poetry and anthropology with a specific focus on the various creative and critical challenges poetry poses to anthropological thought and writing.
The workshop is open to anyone (anthropologists, poets, students) and free, though spaces are limited. Participants must come with a short prepared statement (that can include poems or conventional writing) no longer than 300 words. The emphasis in this workshop is sharing com- posed ideas and thoughts; we request that people do not speak ‘off-the-cuff’ but come with a prepared bit of writing. After reading these short pieces we will open a discussion on themes raised in the writing. It is, as such, a very open format designed primarily to give anthropologists interested in poetry (both as an object of study and as a method of communication) an opportunity to meet with others in an informal setting. The workshop will be run in Spanish and English with some limited translation.
Binnizá (Zapotec) poet, Victor Terán, will be in attendance via video connection.
The workshop will be led by Anthony Webster (UT Austin) with support from members of the Ethnographic Termi- nalia Collective. Also present will be Cymene Howe (Rice University) and Baird Campbell (Rice University) as interpreter.
Note that there are very limited spaces available for this work- shop. Please send an email to ethnographicterminalia@gmail.com with the subject heading “poetry workshop” to inquire if there is space.
[Bio c. 2015] Baird Campbell is a second year doctoral student in Anthropology at Rice University. His dissertation project examines processes of history-making and the creation of alternative archives among Chilean queer activists, focusing specifically on the use of history in performative protest and the use of new media for archival purposes. He has served as adjunct Spanish faculty at Finlandia University, and has worked as a translator for Harvard University Press, the George Wright Society, and Revista “Le Trans,” Chile’s first journal of Trans activism. He has also served as an interpreter and community educator for immigrant rights programs...
[Bio c. 2017] Craig Campbell is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. He received his PhD in Sociology (Theory and Culture) from the University of Alberta in 2009. He is actively involved in producing works that span the range of expository writing, art exhibition, and curation. These function as companion works to a thematic interest in archives, photography, documents, and the anxious territory of actuality. Craig Campbell’s ethnographic, historical, and regional interests include: Siberia, Central Siberia, Indigenous Siberians, Evenki, Evenkiia, Reindeer hunting and herding, Travel and mobility, Socialist colonialism, early forms of Sovietization, and the circumpolar...
Cymene Howe is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and a core faculty member in the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences. She is the author of Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua (Duke 2013), co-editor of 21st Century Sexualities (Routledge 2009) and has published numerous articles and book chapters in anthropology and transdisciplinary texts. In a multi-year collaborative research project with Dominic Boyer in Southern Mexico she has followed the political and social contingencies of renewable energy development, paying special attention to the material, multi-species and political/ecological effects of wind...
[Bio c. 2016] Dominic Boyer is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and Founding Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS, culturesofenergy.org), the first research center in the world designed specifically to promote research on the energy/environment nexus in the arts, humanities and social sciences. He is part of the editorial collective of the journal Cultural Anthropology (2015-2018) and also edits Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge, a book series for Cornell University Press. His research interests include media, knowledge, energy and power. His most recent monograph is The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in...
[Bio c. 2018] I am an Associate Professor specializing in Media at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology. I am an anthropologist with a PhD in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia and an MA in the Anthropology of Media from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. As the director of the Making Culture Lab, my research explores the role of digital technology in the documentation and safeguarding of cultural heritage, and the mediation of culture, history, objects, and subjects in new forms. My video and multimedia works investigate documentary methodologies to...
Fiona P. McDonald completed her PhD (2014) in the Department of Anthropology at University College London (UCL) in visual anthropology & material culture (Supervisors: Professor Susanne Kuechler and Professor Christopher Pinney). Her dissertation is entitled, Charting Material Memories: a visual and material ethnography of the transformations of woollen blankets in contemporary art, craft, and Indigenous regalia in Canada, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the United States . This project was undertaken as both an historic and contemporary visual and material ethnography of the material nature and transformations of woollen (trade) blankets that were produced in the United Kingdom since the seventeenth century....
Stephanie Takaragawa is an Associate Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and an Associate Professor of Sociology at Chapman University (Orange, CA). She received a PhD from Temple University (2006) in the Anthropology of Visual Communication emphasizing visual and media representations cross-culturally through art, performance and museum exhibitions. Her current research looks at representations of Japanese-American internment discourses at the interpretive centers now built at the Manzanar Relocation Center in California and Heart Mountain in Cody, Wyoming. Stephanie’s areas of interest are in the anthropology of visual communication, museum studies, the intersection of art and...
[Bio c. 2015] I am a linguistic anthropologist who studies ethnopoetics and verbal art more generally. My focus is on the intersections between verbal art and poetics, the individual, acoustemology, language change, language contact, aesthetics, and linguistic and social inequalities (the whole life of a language). This leads me to think a great deal about felt connections to linguistic forms in use and over time. Questions of imagination and expressive satisfication loom large (and loudly) here as well. My goal in this work is not so much “translation,” but rather with the proceses of attunement–of coming to terms with the...
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