Where do our theoretical approaches and daily lives meet? How do the socioeconomic and political circumstances in which we live and work as scholars animate our research and vice versa? What would it mean to live in our daily lives the theories we value in our analyses? How do various systems of power operate in our own scholarly work? And how can we do research without reproducing them? These are some of the questions which will be covered in this interactive lecture. Participants are invited to reflect on their theoretical and methodological work as social scientists.

TARGET GROUP

The lecture is intended for junior faculty members, graduate students and researchers in social sciences. The event is open to the general public.

PRESENTER’S SHORT BIO

Nelli Sargsyan is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont. Through her most recent research, Sargsyan continues to learn alongside and from Armenian feminists’ important political work toward a life of collective care. Her individual work on different kinds of feminist political work has appeared in journals such as Feminist Formations and Armenian Review, and online platforms such as Socioscope. Her collaborative work on different forms of violence and working together to counter it has appeared on online platforms such as ARTMargins and Public Seminar.

PARTICIPATION

To attend please register by sending an email at [email protected] by August 20, 23:59.