Anthropology Colloquium is the department’s speaker series that invites a mixture of anthropologists from within and outside of UBC to present their research. This speaker series is scheduled throughout the academic year, typically with a lunch reception in the AnSo Lounge.
Thursday, Oct 14th 11:30-1:00 Michael Ames Theatre at MOA
Marilyn Strathern (Cambridge University)
What’s in an Argument? Preliminary Reflections on Knowledge Exchanges
Pacific Island academics would wish anthropologists to be explicit about ‘knowledge exchange’. Knowledge transfers take innumerable forms; in the case of the anthropologist, however, it often seems that expert knowledge is more taken than given. Thinking comparatively about academic practice, is there any future for potential ‘exchanges’ as forms of interdisciplinarity, say, or of argument between points of view? This Lecture takes the concept of an academic argument to ask about its counterparts in non-academic milieux of knowledge-making in one part of the Pacific.
Co-sponsored by the Museum of Anthropology
