Seminar

Ethnography at the Archive

Date

Fri February 26th 2021, 2:30pm

Location

Zoom Meeting

This panel will explore the intersections of ethnography and archival research, broadly defined. In the first half of the conversation, Trinidad Rico (Art History, Rutgers) will speak with Gabrielle Hecht (History, Stanford), Lynn Meskell (Anthropology, Penn), and Miyako Inoue (Anthropology, Stanford) about the nuts-and-bolts of working with documents, archives, and historical collections. The session will give additional attention to the ways in which these modes of research can relate to ethnographic practices. Along these lines, the panel will discuss the potentially complementary roles and disjuncture of these different modes of inquiry and the findings they produce. The second part of the session will be open to audience questions.

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Supplementals

For supplemental literature related to the panel, email ds1 [at] stanford.edu (ds1[at]stanford[dot]edu).

Panelists

Gabrielle Hecht

Stanton Foundation Professor of Nuclear Security,

Professor of History,

Professor (by courtesy) of Anthropology,

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies,

Stanford University

Miyako Inoue

Associate Professor,

Anthropology,

Stanford University

Lynn Meskell

PIK Professor of Anthropology;

Professor of Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design;

University of Pennsylvania

A.D. White Professor-at-Large,

Cornell University (2019–2025)

Trinidad Rico (panel chair)

Associate Professor,

Art History;

Director of Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies,

Rutgers University

Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences,

Stanford University

Contact Email

ds1 [at] stanford.edu