Hello All,
Pleas find below information for an event on* this Wednesday 13th March*,
at UCL Anthropology Dept. that may be of interest to some of you.
*Writing Anthropology and Beyond: Sigrid Rausing and Tahmima Anam in
conversation*
As part of the *Anthropology in the Professional World *seminar series
hosted by the Anthropology Dept. at UCL, acclaimed authors Sigrid Rausing
and Tahmima Anam will be discussing their work and lives as anthropologists
and writers. All welcome but please register.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-anthropology-sigrid-rausing-and-tahmima-anam-in-conversation-tickets-56795120735
Sigrid Rausing is the editor of Granta magazine, and the publisher of
Granta books. She trained as an anthropologist at UCL, carrying out
doctoral research on a collective farm in post-socialist Estonia, in the
years following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Her PhD was later
published as History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End
of a Collective Farm (Oxford University Press, 2004). A decade later she
published Everything Is Wonderful, a personal memoir of her fieldwork
research year in Estonia (Grove Atlantic, 2014). More recently she wrote
a memoir about addiction in the family, Mayhem (Hamish Hamilton), which was
shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize (2018) . In addition, she has published
numerous essays, columns and opinion pieces for newspapers and
journals. Having
written three books of very different genres, from the scholarly to the
more personal, she will discuss how anthropology has influenced her diverse
work.
Sigrid will be joined by Tahmima Anam, an anthropologist and a novelist.
Her debut novel, A Golden Age, won the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize for
Best First Book. In 2013, she was named one of Granta’s Best of Young
British Novelists. She is a Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York
Times and was a judge for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. Born in
Dhaka, Bangladesh, she was educated at Mount Holyoke College and Harvard
University, and now lives in London. Tahmima will also be reflecting on the
role of anthropology in her writing.
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