INDIRECTION, OPACITY, AND PARRHESIA: UNSETTLING IDEOLOGIES OF LANGUAGE, RACE, AND DEMOCRACY, a talk by Louis Römer
Anthropology Colloquium Room
Please join the Center for Global Ethnography for “Indirection, Opacity, And Parrhesia: Unsettling Ideologies Of Language, Race, And Democracy,” a talk by Louis Römer, (Vassar College, Anthropology).
Friday, April 29th
3:30PM to 5:00PM
Building 50, Room 51A
Anthropology Colloquium Room
Attention Grad Students: If you wish to meet with Dr. Römer for a coffee chat with other students, please indicate your interest in the RSVP.
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ABSTRACT
BIO
Dr. Louis Philippe Römer is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College. His current research focuses on the language, race, media in the Atlantic world and specifically on the Dutch colonial empire and its enduring presence in the Caribbean. Römer studies how people use language, culture, and technology to create visions of the future in Caribbean public spheres. Römer is currently working on a book titled Strategic Ambiguities: Race, Class, and Populism on the Caribbean Airwaves, an examination of how populist discourse transforms race and class identities into badges of political loyalty and shifts the horizon of political possibility. Römer’s research has been supported by the Wenner Gren Foundation and by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds of the Netherlands, among other sources. His writing in this vein has appeared in Somatosphere, Anthrodendum, and Footnotes, and also news outlets such as Al Jazeera English, the Daily Maverick (South Africa), Kouti Pandoras (Greece), Lilith Magazine (Netherlands), and Extra (Curaçao).
For any questions about the event, please contact David Stentiford, ds1 [at] stanford.edu (ds1[at]stanford[dot]edu).