| 5 Dec 2023 | 17:00 - 18:30 | Online | |
- Description
Description
Part of the inReach – /ɪn riːtʃ/ seminar series
Convenor
Kelly Fagan Robinson (Department of Social Anthropology)
Speakers
Ghassan Hage (University of Melbourne/Max Planck)
Abstract
‘Negotiation’ can mean two parties expressing opposing interests sitting on a table trying to find a resolution.
But it can also mean how to live one’s life in relation to the way others around you are living their lives; in the way we speak of negotiating the crowd or negotiating a river. This talk examines the significance of this form of existing in the world as opposed to the more dominant forms in which we try to shape our environment according to our own interests.
About the inReach – /ɪn riːtʃ/ seminar series
- inside the distance to which someone can stretch out their hand.
- within the capacity of someone to attain or achieve something
- (inversion of ‘outreach’) considers the expertise of those usually closed off from academic and artistic reception.
The term ‘inReach’ signifies any action which reshapes elite institutions as inclusive domains through centrally placing work by people otherwise absent in traditional arts and academic spaces. This series will critically question and therefore set to prove false the too-common trope that certain people are ‘hard to reach.’ By bringing artists, academics, and key local publics together via CRASSH, inReach will amplify the underacknowledged value of lived expertise of socially marginalised people, while also fostering ongoing debates about transience, stigma and inequality in the UK.
Unless otherwise stated, all seminars take place at 17:00GMT on the scheduled Tuesdays for 90 minutes, beginning with a 45-60 minute talk and followed by a Q&A/discussion.
We are currently open to booking additional speakers for Lent Term. Please get in touch with kr474@cam.ac.uk for further information.
