Dear colleagues,
I am delighted to invite you to a colloquium ‘Consequences of Ethnography:
Knowing Violence via the Self and Its Aftermath’. The colloquium will be
held in Prague, Czech Republic.
31 January 2018 | 9.50-16.30 | Vila Lanna, V Sadech 1, Prague
Please register here: https://goo.gl/forms/5f2Td2IMNY69kQ8O2
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University)
*The Character of the Possible: Modality and Mood in the Genre of
Ethnography*
David Mosse (SOAS, University of London)
*Trauma and Ethical Self-Making after Suicide: The Existential Imperative
to Respond*
Jonathan Stillo (Wayne State University)
*“No One Leaves This Place Except the Dead”: Tuberculosis as a Socially
Incurable Disease*
SPEAKERS
Petra Ezzeddine (Charles University)
Jaroslav Klepal (The Czech Academy of Sciences)
Michal Šípoš (The Czech Academy of Sciences)
Václav Walach (University of West Bohemia)
Download full programme here:
http://globalnikonflikty.cz/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Consequences-of-Ethnography_colloquium.pdf
As Sherry Ortner famously argued, ethnography in its minimal definition is
“the attempt to understand another life world using the self—as much of it
as possible—as the instrument of knowing.” It is hardly surprising that
conducting ethnographic research among/with survivors of violence—be it
military, community, domestic, sexual, self-inflicted or another form of
violence—has a strong impact on the researcher. That impact, given the
nature of ethnography, then directly translates into issues that are
simultaneously personal and epistemological. Implications for the
ethnographically knowing subject stretch well beyond feelings of empathy
with research participants, as well as beyond the space-time of the
fieldwork. In this colloquium, we want to address methodological questions
connected to knowing violence ethnographically, such as—but not limited
to—the following:
• When conducting ethnographic fieldwork, researchers are often confronted
with survivors’ silence or with an urgent need to tell what survivors
witnessed and endured. Does that translate into an equally polarised
reaction on the side of the researcher? In other words, can we see
increased academic productivity in some cases among ethnographers, but
inhibition of speaking-writing in other cases?
• How can we speak of trauma of research without inappropriately shifting
attention from research subjects to the researcher him- or herself?
• The needs of research subjects may significantly shape a researcher’s own
trajectory in the field. Should the researcher let research subjects take
control over the project?
• Some ethnographers who publicly voice their research agendas are targeted
by various actors, including authorities, hate groups or even the
perpetrators behind the violence suffered by their research subjects. How
can we methodologically conceptualise such encounters as part of
ethnographic endeavour? What is the epistemic role of fear in such cases?
Organisers:
Michal Sipos and Ludek Broz
Institute of Ethnology, The Czech Academy of Sciences
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*Michal Sipos*
Postdoctoral Researcher
The Czech Academy of Sciences
Visiting Research Fellow
Goldsmiths, University of London
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