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SUMMARY:Social Anthropology Seminar - Beyond Jasmine Gates: A Palestinian
  Family's Life Story against Erasure 
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DESCRIPTION:\nRoom Booked: Uni Place_4.211\n\nDate(s): Wed 14 Feb 2018 - 
 Wed 14 Feb 2018\n\nTime: 15:00 - 17:00\n \n \nBeyond Jasmine Gates: A Pa
 lestinian Family's Life Story against Erasure \n\nThis project is an ora
 l history of a Palestinian family\, tracing its experience from 1967 to 
 the present day.  Members of this family have experienced military occup
 ation\, imprisonment\, assassination\, home demolition\, restrictions on
  movement\, forced migration\, and other forms of political violence.  S
 ome of them have been involved in Palestinian resistance to Israeli mili
 tary occupation\, participating in attacks against Israelis and Palestin
 ian collaborators. While being mindful of this political violence and si
 tuating the oral history in such a context\, my aim in this project is t
 o tell a story of the nuances of rural life within these events\, to cap
 ture the longue duree of social change\, and to highlight everyday exper
 iences and the way events and the mundane intertwine to produce people’s
  lives.\n\nImportantly\, this project is an experiment to push the limit
 s of ethnography. Its written form is creative nonfiction rather than tr
 aditional ethnography. Thus\, this talk will focus on writing ethnograph
 y and what it means to write creative nonfiction as an anthropologist. H
 ow can we tell the story of a family’s life under occupation\, apartheid
  and settler colonialism using the tools we learn as anthropologists? To
  this end\, I explore the enduring question of representation and voice.
  And ask: how can we transform our data to forms that present themselves
  to greater audiences without sacrificing theory and critique? And how d
 o we play with stories told to create stories written? This talk will in
 clude a reading of draft chapters from the book. \n\nBio:\n \nSami Herme
 z\, PhD\, is Assistant Professor in Residence of Anthropology at Northwe
 stern University in Qatar. He obtained his doctorate degree from the Dep
 artment of Anthropology at Princeton University. His recently published 
 book with UPenn Press\, "War is Coming: Between Past and Future Violence
  in Lebanon" (2017)\, focuses on the everyday life of political violence
  in Lebanon and how people recollect and anticipate this violence. His b
 roader research concerns include the study of social movements\, the sta
 te\, memory\, security\, and human rights in the Arab world. He has held
  posts as Visiting Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard 
 University\, Visiting Professor of Contemporary International Issues at 
 the University of Pittsburgh\, Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Mt.
  Holyoke College\, and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Lebanese St
 udies\, St. Antony’s College\, Oxford University. At Northwestern in Qat
 ar he teaches classes in anthropology that include topics such as violen
 ce\, gender\, and the anthropology of Palestine. \n
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LOCATION:Uni Place_4.21\, University Place\, Manchester
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