“A Thousand Genocides Now”
Date
Mon January 30th 2017, 3:30pm
Location
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 51A (Colloquium Room)
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 51A (Colloquium Room)
Presenter:
Kamala Visweswaran
What events define a genocide? What happens when an object of description cannot be tied to historical provenance or place of origin? What happens to description itself when it shadows the movement of this object across time and geographic space? This talk chronicles a changing object of description—genocide--and attempts, through the devices of literary non-fiction, to track it across several narrative registers.