Conference opens virtually today - join us tomorrow in person at METU
We’re truly excited for the opening today of Displacements, the 2018 Biennial of the Society of Cultural Anthropology. In fact, my (G. Aung) and Ei Mon Kyaw’s video essay “States of Suspension” will kick off the conference overall. Tune in, 8 a.m. EST, or 3 p.m. in Turkey.
Our Ankara node will take place tomorrow at METU/ODTÜ, 5-8 pm. Registration still very much open at [email protected].
We’ll show, in full, the Home as Memory and Horizon panel featuring these presentations:
- “Death, Dumplings, and Displacement,” Megan Steffen, Tsinghua University
- “‘The Village’: Space/Place in Life Story Narratives of Displaced Kurdish Youth in Diyarbakir, Turkey,” Leyla Neyzi, Northwestern University
- “Metaphors of Violence in Izmir: Rumor, Orientalism, and Stories of Syrian Refugees,” Mija Sanders, University of Arizona
- “Presence in Times of Erasure,” Sanderien Verstappen, Leiden University
- “Recursive Displacements: Memories, Objects, People in Motion,” Onder Celik, Johns Hopkins University
- “Scents and Subtle Sounds: Memory, Sense, and Home,” Thomas Albright, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Then we’ll show several individual presentations, not necessarily in this order:
- “States of Suspension,” Geoffrey Aung, Columbia University; Ei Mon Kyaw, Independent Researcher
- “Refugee, Ethnographer, and Citizen: Displacing the Boundaries of Displacement,” Elif Sari, Cornell University
- “Wounds of Displaced Guilt: Coal Mining, Right-Wing Populism, and Misplaced Accusations in Aegean Turkey,” Elif Irem Az, Columbia University
Plenty of discussion, snacks, and drinks will be included - and two conference presenters, myself and Elif Sari, will be in attendance ourselves. Join us!
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