Inventing Intimacy Through Research
Friday 17th February 2006
Small Hall/Cinema, Main Building, Goldsmiths College
Organised by Mariam Fraser and Nirmal Puwar
A one-day conference to explore how research processes produce different
kinds of intimacies.
Working with different materials and in different domains, this conference
will explore the relation between intimacy and research. How does the
specificity of a research subject, or a particular methodology, create
intimate relations? What kinds of intimacies are produced in our exchanges
with the past through archival research? What are the possibilities of
transcultural memory work with film? What ethical issues are raised by
intimate ethnographic research? How intimate are scientific objects? Is it
possible to think through intimacy without either privileging or excluding
the subjectivity of the researcher?
Speakers are drawn from different disciplines and practices and are engaged
with different methods. Presentations will consider the intimacy of working
with the material of account books, colour and sound, accounts of sex work,
and the brain.
Speakers
Simon Cohn, Anthropology, Goldsmiths
Ania Dabrowska, photographer
Julia O'Connell Davidson, Sociology and Social Policy, Nottingham University
Bronwyn Parry, Geography, Queen Mary University of London
Carolyn Steedman, History, Warwick University
Alia Syed, filmmaker
There is no charge to attend. However, to attend the buffet reception
after the conference, please register by Friday 3rd February as numbers are
limited: [log in to unmask] For more details, please email Beckie Coleman
at [log in to unmask]
Beckie Coleman
Research Administrator
Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process
Sociology Department
Goldsmiths College
University of London
New Cross
London
SE14 6NW
020 7919 7731
www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp
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