Location
Room BZ F6.00 University Club, Universitätsplatz 1 - Piazza Università, 1, 39100 Bozen-Bolzano
Departments Press and Events
14 Sept - 15 Sept 2022
Symposium “De-centering Anthropology by way of Malinowski”
The symposium is reserved for researchers in this field.
Location
Room BZ F6.00 University Club, Universitätsplatz 1 - Piazza Università, 1, 39100 Bozen-Bolzano
Departments Press and Events
This symposium is organised with the support of Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the Free University of Bolzano.
The symposium is reserved for researchers in this field. For more information, please contact Prof. Dorothy Zinn or Prof. Elisabeth Tauber.
Programme:
WEDNESDAY 14.09.2022
9:00-9:15 - Greetings - Elisabeth Tauber – Dorothy Zinn
9:15-9:45 - Introduction - Chandana Mathur and Dorothy Zinn
Workshop Chair: Marilyn Strathern
Session I - 10:30-13:30
Moderation: Elisabeth Tauber
9:45-10:30 - Paper 1 – Grazyna Kubica-Heller (Two cultural worlds of Bronislaw Malinowski's early years in his own auto-ethnography)
10:30-11:15 - Paper 2 – Daniela Salvucci (The center as an intersection: Following the Malinowski-Masson collaboration and gender relation)
11:15-11:35 - Coffee break
11:35-12:20 - Paper 3 Tom Strong (After the “Diary in the Queer Sense of the Term”: (Celebrated) Works and (Shameful) Lives in Anthropology Today and Yesterday)
12:20-13:00 - Discussion I (Lead Discussant: Michal Buchowski)
13:00-14:30 - Lunch
Session II - 14:30-18:30
Workshop Chair: Marilyn Strathern
14:30-15:15 - Paper 4 – Ricardo Macip (Magic’s Transference for National Invented Traditions: Malinowski in Oaxaca and México)
15:15-16:30 - Paper 5 – Isaac Nyamongo (Malinowski, Kenyatta and Anthropology in Kenya’s nation building) 16:30-16:50 - Coffee break
16:50-17:25 - Paper 6 Emma Pizarro (Decolonising archival description: reviewing problematic language in the Malinowski collection)
17:25-18:05 - Discussion II (Lead Discussant: Michal Buchowskij)
18:05-18:30 - Day 1 Wrap-up by Chair: Marilyn Strathern
THURSDAY 15.09.2022
Workshop Session III 9:00-13:00 (moderation: Dorothy Zinn)
9:00- 9:45 - Paper 7 Yomi Ogunsanya (De-centering Methodological Orthodoxies and Other Ethical Questions in Precarious Contexts: Reflections on an Anthropologist’s Journey into the World of Ireland’s Asylum System)
9:45-10:30 - Paper 8 Joy Owen (Un-disciplining the ‘native’ – revelatory reflection and reflexivity)
10:30-10:50 - Coffee break
10:50-11:35 - Paper 9 Davide Cacchioni (Follow the Plant? De-centering anthropology, re-orienting ethnography)
11:35-12:00 - Discussion III (Lead Discussant: Marilyn Strathern)
12:00-13:00 - Activity (Chandana Mathur, Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy Zinn)
13:00-14:30 - Lunch
14:30-15:15 - Workshop Conclusion (Michal Buchowski)
15:15-15:30 - Closing Remarks– Marilyn Strathern
Visit to Malinowski Villa