{"id":2253,"date":"2017-06-13T09:57:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T09:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2017-06-13T09:58:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T09:58:12","slug":"ethnographic-approaches-to-wilful-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2017\/06\/13\/ethnographic-approaches-to-wilful-blindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethnographic Approaches to Wilful Blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Anthropology research theme at the School of Anthropology and Conservation at Kent will host\u00a0a symposium on Ethnographic Approaches to Wilful Blindness, a topic that is becoming more relevant in an age of post-truth and fake news. The event is jointly organised by the Department of Anthropology of the London School of Economics and Political Science and will take place on <strong>Friday 16th<\/strong> and <strong>Saturday 17th of June<\/strong> at Canterbury Cathedral Lodge. The speakers are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Profitable Uncertainty<br \/>\n<\/strong>Dr <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socanth.cam.ac.uk\/directory\/felix-stein\" target=\"_blank\">Felix Stein<\/a> (University of Edinburgh\/University of Cambridge)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Turning a blind eye: financial institutions and their information barriers<br \/>\n<\/strong>Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/staff-profiles\/profiles\/social-anthropology\/academic-staff\/peluso_daniela.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daniela Peluso<\/a> (University of Kent)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Waiting for a Deus ex Machina: \u2018Sustainable Extractives\u2019 in a 2\u00b0 World<br \/>\n<\/strong>Dr <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/profiles\/116302\" target=\"_blank\">Dinah Rajak<\/a> (University of Sussex)<\/li>\n<li><strong>On the Banality of Willful Blindness<br \/>\n<\/strong>Dr\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/staff-profiles\/profiles\/social-anthropology\/academic-staff\/bovensiepen_judith.html\" target=\"_blank\">Judith Bovensiepen<\/a> (University of Kent)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea<br \/>\n<\/strong>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/lsa.umich.edu\/anthro\/people\/faculty\/socio-cultural-faculty\/skirsch.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart Kirsch<\/a> (University of Michigan)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Post-truth as wilful blindness? A sketch for the ethnographic study of epistemology in the post-Trump era<br \/>\n<\/strong>Dr\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/staff-profiles\/profiles\/social-anthropology\/academic-staff\/mair_jonathan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Mair<\/a> (Kent)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blind Hope: Entropy and Legitimacy in the Indian General Election<br \/>\n<\/strong>Dr <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socanth.cam.ac.uk\/directory\/dr-andrew-sanchez\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Sanchez<\/a> (University of Cambridge)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Invisible Children? Exploring Perverse Approaches to Stateless Children in Malaysia<br \/>\n<\/strong>Dr <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/anthropology\/people\/allerton.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Catherine Allerton<\/a> (LSE)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Absent Presence and the Unseen in the Photographic Frame: Systemic and Strategic Blindness in Colonial Photography<br \/>\n<\/strong>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/anthropology\/dept\/staff\/?staffid=136\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Dilley<\/a> (University of St Andrews)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Discussants:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr <a href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.utoronto.ca\/people\/faculty\/todd-sanders\/\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Sanders<\/a> (University of Toronto), Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/psychoanalysis\/people\/dtuckett\" target=\"_blank\">David Tuckett<\/a> (UCL), Dr <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/anthropology\/people\/shah.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Alpa Shah<\/a> (LSE)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Anthropology research theme at the School of Anthropology and Conservation at Kent will host\u00a0a symposium on Ethnographic Approaches to Wilful Blindness, a topic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2017\/06\/13\/ethnographic-approaches-to-wilful-blindness\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":2254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6598,124,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}