On Thursday, March 14th 2024, at noon, Professor Maruška Svašek, PhD (Queens University Belfast, UK) will give a lecture entitled Collaboration, Fermentation, and the Representation of Microbial Life. The lecture will take place at the Library of the Institute for Anthropological Research, 2nd floor. We invite all interested to attend!
Maruška Svašek is Professor of Anthropology at Queens University Belfast (UK), Co-Director of the Centre for Creative Ethnography, and Fellow of the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. Her main research interests include migration, art/efacts, politics and emotions. In the last ten years, her work has brought these strands together, exploring the affective relationality of humans, artefacts and spaces in an era of
globalization, transnational connectivity and environmental change. At present, she is working on a book on art and the politics of visibility in Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic, and investigating the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the lives of migrant women in Ireland. Her publications include Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space: Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland (2018, with Milena Komarova), Creativity in Transition: Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe (2016, with Birgit Meyer), Emotions and Human Mobility: Ethnographies of Movement (2012), Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions (2012), Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (2007), Postsocialism: Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe (2006) and Mixed Emotions: Anthropological Studies of Feelings (2005, with Kay Milton).
More about the lecture you can find in the invitation.
Lecture is organized within the project Multilevel Sustainability as a Prerequisite for Health and Wellbeing (SUSTAINWELL). Funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them.
