February 14, 2007
Adrian McIntyre February 26 @ Noon
The AGORA-sponsored graduate student brown bag series is starting up again this spring. It is a series of informal presentations in which post-field graduate students who are writing up present their projects to other graduate students.
Adrian McIntyre is going first, on February 26, Monday, from 12 to 1:30 in the Gifford Room.
Jerome Whitington will be speaking later in the term, on April 9, same time, but I’ll send out another reminder about his presentation close to the date.
I’m trying to come up with a clever title for my talk (which, for me, is usually the first step in figuring out what I want to say). I’m thinking of something like “Beyond the Field: The Undisciplined Anthropologist and the Impossible Human of Contemporary Humanitarianism”
I don’t have a title (yet) but a good starting sentence:
I think the anthropology of the contemporary and your specific dissertation share the same goal, as you try to present in your suggested title:
“To introduce movement into thought rather than trying to find universals of information”. (Deleuze, 2001:20) (from his “pure immanence”)
So your critique about “the” human effort and the unique concept work and work of the anthropology of the contemporary are based on this shared premise.
The problem that comes from the following questions:
What is “the” human?
What is “the” fieldwork?
Thank you, friends, for your sharing your ideas
I had to leave town unexpectedly this weekend, so the talk has been rescheduled for March 12, 12-1:30 pm in the Gifford Room