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Faculty Seminar Series

Researching Silence: Landscapes and Archives

Speaker: Munira Khayyat

A woman with long, light brown hair, wearing a light green jacket over a gray top, standing outdoors. She is on a staircase with a graffiti-covered wall in the background, looking at the camera with a slight smile.

Munira Khayyat is a Clinical Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University.Her research revolves around life in war, intimate genealogies of empire, and theory from the South. She is the author of A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon (University of California Press 2022). Her research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, and the Rachel Carson Center.

ABSTRACT
As researchers we are often blinded by our objects of knowledge, which instead of revealing, also obscure what we are looking for. This talk examines the challenge of chasing elusive themes within overdetermined spaces and showcases a few creative multidisciplinary research methods innovated to capture elusive content. The talk will range across anthropology, literature and photography, landscapes and archives.

This event will take place in room 1A11 at Georgetown University in Qatar