Refugeedom’s Subjects and Subjectivities
Numbers will be limited and registration will be required on arrival.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr Arek Dakessian is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Global Health and Development (IGHD), Queen Margaret University of Edinburgh. He is a sociologist interested in cultural production, material culture, racialisations and refugeedom. His doctoral thesis, entitled “Casting Nets and Framing Films: An Ethnography of Networks of Cultural Production in Beirut” was a mixed-methods ethnographic exploration of filmmaking networks in his hometown drawing upon social network analysis (SNA). It engaged with how freelance filmmakers navigate the social network markets in which they operate, how they are co-produced by the films that they produce and, finally, the emergence of social worlds out of sustained on-set relationships and their spillover into life off-set. Arek is also a founding member of LIVED, an Edinburgh-based charity dedicated to researching refugeedom (www.livedprojects.org), as well as a member of the Social Network Analysis group of Scotland.
Date: 27 October 2021, 17:30 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Speaker: Dr Arek Dakessian (Queen Margaret University of Edinburgh)
Organising department: Refugee Studies Centre
Organiser contact email address: rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Eliya Beachy