4-0915 THE AFFECTS OF DISPLACEMENT

Friday, November 18, 2011: 13:45-17:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Students

Organizers: Yael Navaro-Yashin (University of Cambridge) and Umut Yildirim (Sabanci University)

Chairs: Valentina Napolitano (University of Toronto)

Discussants: Liisa Malkki (Stanford University) and Tobias Kelly (University of Edinburgh)

13:45

Displacing Mourning, Remapping the Sensible: Stasis and the Affects of dissent

Athena Athanasiou (Panteio University of Social and Political Sciences)

14:00

Dissonant Affects of Peaceful Transitions: The Case of Feminist Activism In Diyarbakir

Umut Yildirim (Sabanci University)

14:15

Displaced Gazes: Theorizing Affect In Post-Soviet Chechnya

Mantas Kvedaravicius (Cambridge University)

14:30

Feeling At Home In the Street: Reflections On Affect’s Haunted ‘Eco-nomy’ Through Queer Activism In Istanbul

Eirini Avramopoulou (Cambridge University)

14:45

Political Ecologies of the Precarious

Kath Weston (University of Virginia)

15:00

Rethinking Space, Time and Intensity In Athens

Georgia Galati (Cambridge University)

15:15

‘Displacement At Home’: Nostalgia, Frustration, Compassion and Hope In a Swazi Company Town

Vito Laterza (University of Cambridge)

15:30

Break

15:45

Affecting Voodoo: Visceral Politics and Anti-Trafficking Action Against Bonded Prostitution In Italy

Irene Peano (Cambridge University)

16:00

Discussant

Liisa Malkki (Stanford University)

16:15

Localizing Affects: Disappeared Spaces, Precarious Existence, and Place-Based Politics In Cyprus

Yael Navaro-Yashin (University of Cambridge)

16:30

Affect and the Elementary Forms of Mass Publicity

William T Mazzarella (University of Chicago)

16:45

Haunted Senses: 'feeling' the Raped Woman In Dhaka

Nayanika Mookherjee (Durham University)

17:00

discussion

17:15

Discussant

Tobias Kelly (University of Edinburgh)

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