Two Anthropology Events: Book Talk & Silver Medal Lecture

[Arts Communications]

Anthropology is excited to offer two upcoming events:

Book Talk - Zainab’s Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders<https://uwaterloo.ca/anthropology/events/book-talk-zainabs-traffic-moving-saints-selves-and-others>
Friday, Feb 28 | 12:00-1:30PM
Balsillie School of International Affairs

Zainab’s book Traffic explores the socially embedded—and spatially generative—encounters of ritual, mobility, desire, genealogy, and patronage along the route from Tehran to Sayyida Zainab shrine. Whether it's through the study of the spatial politics of saint veneration in Islam, analysis of cross-border gold trade and sanctions, or examination of pilgrims women’s desire for Syrian lingerie accompanying their pleas with the saint in marital matters, the book and this talk develops the idea of visitation as a ritual of mobility across geography, history, and category.

The Impasse: Political Logistics in Port-au-Prince, Haiti<https://uwaterloo.ca/anthropology/events/impasse-political-logistics-port-au-prince-haiti>
Monday, March 3 | 4:30-6:00PM
Hagey Hall 1102

Moving beyond simple explanations like ‘state failure’ or international calls for armed intervention, Greg Beckett, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western University, seeks to reframe the discussion around politics as it is lived in Port-au-Prince. How do residents of the city experience political crisis? What are the ordinary ways that the exceptional condition of political impasse takes? How do people navigate the cascading array of blockages they face on a daily basis, from roadblocks and blackouts to the prevailing sense of stuckness that arises from the seemingly endless political crisis? Drawing on insights from the anthropology of mobility, Beckett suggests we can understand the current situation in Port-au-Prince through the lens of what he calls political logistics.

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