2019 Silver Medal Award Event

[Jennifer Doucet]

Join the Department of Anthropology, alumni, and friends, for the 2019 Silver Medal Award Guest Lecture<https://uwaterloo.ca/anthropology/events/2019-silver-medal-award-guest-lecture>, The Unbearable Lightness of Trust, presented by Prof. Filippo Osella, Professor of Anthropology And South Asian Studies at University of Sussex (UK). The talk explores the lifeworld and practices of Indian export agents in China, suggesting that whilst they seek to cultivate networks of friendships and mutual trust with their Chinese suppliers and Indian clients, trust is always in short supply.
When:

Tuesday, March 26, 2019 | 5:00 p.m.


Where:

Environment 3 | Room 1408 | University of Waterloo


Cost:

Free; registration not required.
Reception to follow.



We hope to see you there!

Christopher Watts
Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies
Department of Anthropology


The Unbearable Lightness of Trust

Tuesday, March 26th
5:00 p.m. in EV3 1408
[osella photo copy]

Professor Filippo Osella
Professor of Anthropology And South Asian Studies at University of Sussex (UK)

The talk explores the lifeworld and practices of Indian export agents in China, suggesting that whilst they seek to cultivate networks of friendships and mutual trust with their Chinese suppliers and Indian clients, trust is always in short supply.  Moreover, trust is a complex and contradictory resource which in itself it does not necessarily ensure economic gains. The talk will argue that the nature of export business is such as to require the careful management of mistrust and suspicion within a rhetoric or aesthetic of mutual trust, in which affective relations and economic interests are simultaneously conflated and separated from each other.

ALL WELCOME
No registration

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