Event overview
Goldsmiths Anthropology - Spring Term Seminar Series
The graphic in the ethnographic: of drawings, ethnographic methods and other affordances.
Dr. Letizia Bonanno - KMMS, University of Kent
Over the past few years, the so-called graphic anthropology has gained enormous momentum. While the values of the graphic medium have mainly been associated with its capacity to magnify academic outputs for public engagement purposes, in this talk, Letizia Bonanno draws on her ethno/graphic work in Greece to ask: what are the methodological affordances of graphic anthropology? In the attempt to unravel the graphic and the ethnographic, she will discuss drawing as an ethnographic method and a mode of analysis and (re)presentation of anthropological knowledge.
Letizia Bonanno is a research associate in medical anthropology at Kent and Medway Medical School and an honorary research fellow at the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent. Letizia’s research revolves around issues of biomedicine and statecraft; she has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Rome, Italy and Athens, Greece. She has produced ethnographically-informed comics and illustrations about her fieldwork in Athens’ social clinics of solidarity and has also written (and drawn!) about the methodological affordances of graphic anthropology.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 1 Mar 2023 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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