{"id":15176,"date":"2018-05-15T13:42:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T09:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/event\/in-dark-times-the-power-and-promise-of-engaged-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T13:31:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T09:31:40","slug":"in-dark-times-the-power-and-promise-of-engaged-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/event\/in-dark-times-the-power-and-promise-of-engaged-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"In Dark Times: The Power and Promise of Engaged Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Public Lecture at Ilia State University<\/strong><\/p>\n

June 6 2018<\/p>\n

In Dark Times: The Power and Promise of Engaged Scholarship<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alisse Waterston<\/p>\n

Presidential Scholar and Professor of Anthropology<\/strong><\/p>\n

City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this talk, anthropologist and gender studies scholar Alisse Waterston situates the promises and possibilities of contemporary, critical scholarship in context of today\u2019s politically fraught times. Offering a view from the United States, Professor Waterston considers the movements towards critically applied and publically engaged scholarship to confront and transform the condition of ubiquitous violence in the contemporary world.<\/p>\n

Professor Waterston has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Ilia State University. The talk will be concluded by a ceremony of honorary doctorate award.<\/p>\n

Alisse Waterston is a cultural anthropologist and gender studies scholar who studies the human consequences of structural and systemic violence and inequality. Her areas of specialty include urban poverty and policy issues in the U.S. related to destitution, homelessness and substance abuse, health, welfare and migration, and applied policy-related research and writing. Her most recent cross-cultural work focuses on the processes and aftermaths of political violence, ethnic and religious conflict, displacement and transnationalism, remembering, diaspora, cultural trauma and identity formation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Waterston was International Scholar of the Open Society Institute (2012-2015), and co-editor with Maia Barkaia of\u00a0<\/strong>Gender in Georgia: Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation and History in the South Caucasus<\/em>\u00a0(Berghahn Books: 2017). She is author of six books, including the award winning<\/strong>My Father\u2019s Wars: Migration, Memory and the Violence of a Century\u00a0<\/em>an intimate ethnography in the Routledge Series on Innovative Ethnographies, and\u00a0Love, Sorrow and Rage<\/em>, a study of women and homelessness in New York City.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Waterston is a Trustee of the John Jay College Foundation Board, and co-Director of the John Jay College Vera Fellows Program, for which she also serves as faculty.<\/p>\n

Alisse Waterston served as President of the American Anthropological Association (AAA)\u00a02015-2017. She\u00a0<\/strong>was editor of\u00a0North American Dialogue<\/em>, and founding editor of\u00a0Open Anthropology<\/em>, AAA\u2019s public journal.\u00a0She is currently working with artist-anthropologist Charlotte Hollands in developing a graphic nonfiction book based on her 2017 Presidential Address,\u00a0<\/strong>Four Stories, A Lament, and an Affirmation<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Waterston received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the City University of New York Graduate Center and her M.A. in Anthropology from Columbia University.<\/p>\n