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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Join us for this year's </span><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/anthropology/events/2021-sally-weaver-award-guest-lecture"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sally Weaver Award Guest Lecture</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">!
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Guest speaker, Elif Sari, Ph.D. in Anthropology (Cornell 2021) with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies will be presenting a lecture titled: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Uncertain Waiting, Uncertain Methodologies: Anthropology of Asylum and Borders</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:#4B4F58">The prospect for Middle Eastern LGBTQ refugee resettlement has grown increasingly dim since 2015, as
the United States and Canada have cut their refugee quotas and tightened their asylum policies. Today, many LGBTQ applicants, stuck in transit countries in the Global South for years, are increasingly reaching out to Canadian queer NGOs and church groups to
seek private sponsorship as one of the last few available resettlement paths.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:#4B4F58">Drawing on her ethnographic research and community collaborations with Iranian LGBTQ refugees in Turkey
awaiting resettlement to North America, Dr. Sari’s talk will discuss the contemporary trends in queer asylum, including global border closures, lengthening waiting times for refugees, and an increasing shift from public to private-sponsored refugee resettlement.
It will also ask: How do anthropological engagements with refugees under circumstances of uncertain waiting, forced immobility, and human rights violations raise ethical, political, and methodological questions for the discipline of anthropology? How do questions
of accountability, transparency, and commitment inform the methodological and ethical orientations of anthropological research on asylum and borders? And how can anthropologists create alternative methods of research and collaboration in restrictive and exploitative
conditions?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black"><img border="0" width="140" height="162" style="width:1.4583in;height:1.6875in" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D7D9FE.30C22770" alt="A person in a white shirt
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<p><span style="font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black">More information about Elif Sari’s work can be found on her website - </span><a href="https://www.elifsari.com"><span style="font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:#D93F00">elifsari.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">WHEN</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">: Monday, November 22, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Guest lecture is free to attend. <o:p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Start time is 12:30 p.m. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Interested in attending this event? RSVP </span><a href="https://www.balsillieschool.ca/event/uncertain-waiting-uncertain-methodologies-anthropology-of-asylum-and-borders/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#D93F00">here</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">This lecture is co-hosted by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><a href="https://www.balsillieschool.ca/research/clusters/migration-mobilities-and-social-politics/"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#D93F00">Balsillie
School of International Affair’s Migration, Mobilities, and Social Politics Research Cluster</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">With great thanks to the generosity of our donors, this year, the prestigious
</span><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/anthropology/graduate/funding-and-awards/sally-weaver-award"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Sally Weaver Award</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> will be presented to our Graduate Students,
</span><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/anthropology/people-profiles/caitlin-brast"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Caitlin Brast</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> and
</span><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/anthropology/people-profiles/sarah-tomkins"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Sarah Tomkins</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">.
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Seçil Daǧtaș</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Graduate Studies<br>
Department of Anthropology</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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