Ethnography and Anthropology Event
- Time:
- 16:00 - 18:00
- Date:
- 25 January 2017
- Venue:
- Building 65 Room 1097 Avenue Campus SO17 1BF
For more information regarding this event, please email Prof Marion Demossier at M.Demossier@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
The Centre for Transnational Studies hosts a new initiative on Debating Ethnography. The initiative was launched by Professor Marion Demossier and ML postgraduates Shawnee Harkness and Clelia Viecelli Giannotti. Its aim is to foster a research forum across the various disciplinary strands in Modern Languages, to engage more widely with ethnography as a research method, involve multi-disciplinary interest across the University and to examine its relevance to modern societies.
Judith Okely's research interests include Gypsies/Travellers. Party to a Marie Curie EU grant, she mentored anthropologists visiting Oxford with research on Roma and taught the Roma course at the CEU, Budapest. Current research interests include anthropologists' field meth-ods. Her forthcoming Anthropological Practice draws on extended dialogues with 20 anthro-pologists (of 16 nationalities), having done individual fieldwork around the globe. Her recent publications also include gender issues. Since 2008, Professor Okely has lectured in Poland, Finland, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and given Conference presentations in Belfast, Bristol, Cambridge and San Franciso. She has also given distinguished lectures at the LSE and Hel-sinki. Her position as Research Associate is complemented as deputy director of IGS, Queen Elizabeth House. This has entailed mentoring visiting fellows, convening anthropology semi-nars and assisting in the Refugee Studies Centre conference on Romani mobilities. She has lectured on Simone de Beauvoir and supervised a Bulgarian Roma's dissertation for the MSt in Womens' Studies.
Speaker information
Professor Judith Okely,University of Oxford,