Event overview
The PhD Migration Reading Group invites you to a talk by Vered Amit, Concordia University
Recent scholarly conceptualizations of cosmopolitanism have often distinguished between mundane practices on the one hand
and a conscious assertion of an ethical project on the other hand. But this kind of distinction may be less a matter of the simple presence or absence of a particular kind of consciousness than of the degree of self awareness as well as of the extent of congruity or disjuncture between this consciousness and what can actually be realized in practice. In this talk I will take up some of these questions of degree and disjuncture to reflect on the interaction between the aspirations and circumscribed experiences occurring among two sets of Canadian travellers: (i) peripatetic international consultants and (ii) young adults who have spent an extended sojourn abroad.
Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal. Her research focuses on different forms of transnational mobility and the forms of sociality, community and disjuncture engendered by movement across space and time.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 11 May 2017 | 11:00am - 1:00pm |
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