[Anthropgrad] workshops with Prof Sherry Ortner

[Francesca Merlan]

 DEAR ANTHROPGRAD,
I've had a good response to my earlier email re participation in the
workshops with Prof
Sherry Ortner in October.  If you have emailed me already, I've got your
name
and YOU DON'T HAVE TO RESPOND TO THIS.  I will get back to everybody
who's
emailed me next week with more details and a request for your
`one-pager' (as below).

But just to make sure everybody's had a chance to respond, I am
RE-POSTING my earlier
message. 

So here it is again:               

 

   RE: POST-GRAD WORKSHOPS WITH PROF SHERRY ORTNER

                                                October 21 and October
28

 

Hello Anthropgraders,

 

You may know Professor Sherry Ortner is visiting ANU in
October-November, and the Anthropology program has set aside two days ?
October 21 and 28 ? on which she will hold workshops with and for
post-grads.

 

She wants to organize each day around a theme ? one, current social
theory; and the second, contemporary film.  (She is giving a talk in the
Wednesday seminar on October 15 on her current interest in class and
independent film-making in the U.S.).

 

There?s an opportunity here for you to discuss your own work, with
either of the above emphases, on those days.  For her own opening
remarks for Oct 21 on social theory she will be presupposing her 2006
book, Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting
Subject, Duke University Press  (so I?ll shortly make an electronic copy
available for ease of access, announcement to follow. But you can
already access good parts of the book on the web).You will get some idea
of her interest in film from the Oct 15 seminar, and also from her work
on class which is represented in the 2006 book.

 

She?d eventually like those post-grads interested (in either session) to
write a one-page statement about your work, how it intersects with
topics in social theory (you can take her book as indicating what she?s
been mainly concerned with).  She?d like these statements before the
event, and the easiest will be for me to collect them for her
electronically.

 

BUT you don?t need to write this one-pager just yet.  What I?d like now
is just an indication of Post-grads? interest.

 

Are you interested in coming to one or both sessions? And  having the
chance to work with Sherry Ortner on those days and talking about her
work and yours, whether you?re in the first, middle or last stages of a
thesis project -- in a small-group format? If so, which session would
you present some discussion of your work in?

 

Once I have an idea of people and numbers, more details will follow
about these two days.

 

Please let me know of your interest by email ?

 

thanks

 

Francesca Merlan