Teach-in Series - Theorizing Injustice: Conceptual Conversations on Palestine:
Waste Siege - Dr. Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins
(Speaker will be online)
In continuation of previous teach-ins, and in an effort to bring academic expertise to open up spaces for collective discussion and learning, we announce a series of events under the title Theorizing Injustice: Conceptual Conversations on Palestine.
The Teach-in Series is hosted by the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at CEU. Following our disciplines’ commitment to critical thinking, located expertise, and conceptual reflection, the series brings together a renowned group of experts with a variety of views, academic traditions, and subjectivities. The views of invited speakers do not necessarily represent those of CEU as an institution.
Further events are being planned for the Spring semester which will continue to strive to present a wide variety of intellectual standpoints and political perspectives.
The teach-in can be followed on-site or online. Registration is required in both cases and limited to CEU affiliates.
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bard College. Her interests include infrastructure, waste, environment, platform capitalism, the home, disability, and kinship. Her first book, Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford, 2019), has won five major book awards, and examines waste management in the absence of a state. Her current book, Controlled Alienation: Airbnb and the Future of Home (under contract with Duke) explores the joint world-making of austerity and home-sharing in Greece. She serves on the editorial teams of Cultural Anthropology and Critical AI. More on her scholarship and lm-making can be found here: https://sophiastamatopoulourobbins.com/.
Location: Central European University, QS C419, Quellenstrasse 51, 1100 Vienna.
*Registration (link here) is required by 5 pm on March 20th, Zoom link provided after registration.