BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.1//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5313@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260909T165522 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261111T161500 SUMMARY:Aimee Meredith Cox: "What Anthropology Cannot Hold: Black Feminist Thought and the Writing of Black Life" DESCRIPTION:What happens when the life one is trying to write exceeds the e pistemological and narrative forms anthropology makes available for appreh ending it? Drawing from an ongoing book project  about the life and death of the presenter's childhood friend Margaret “Missy” Allen\, this tal k considers the limits of anthropology for writing Black life beyond the f orms of violence\, injury\, and  spectacular death through which Black su bjects so often become ethnographically legible. Aimee Meredith Cox turns to Black feminist thought not simply as a critique or supplement to anthro pology\, but as a more  capacious intellectual\, ethical\, and methodolog ical practice – one capable of locating theory in the ordinary\, the int imate\, the embodied\, and the unfinished. In doing so\, she asks what bec omes possible when ethnographic writing is oriented not primarily toward e xplaining Black death\, but toward apprehending the density\, thought\, re lation\, and aliveness of Black life.\\r\\nAimee Meredith Cox is an Associ ate Professor of Anthropology at the New York University. She is a critica l ethnographer\, writer\, and movement artist. Cox has performed and toure d internationally with Ailey II and the Dance Theatre of Harlem and has ch oreographed performances as interventions in public and private space in N ewark\, Philadelphia\, and Brooklyn. X-ALT-DESC:

What happens when the life one is trying to write exceeds the epistemological and narrative forms anthropology makes available for appr ehending it? Drawing from an ongoing book project  \;about the life an d death of the presenter's childhood friend Margaret “Missy” Allen\, t his talk considers the limits of anthropology for writing Black life beyon d the forms of violence\, injury\, and  \;spectacular death through wh ich Black subjects so often become ethnographically legible. Aimee Meredit h Cox turns to Black feminist thought not simply as a critique or suppleme nt to anthropology\, but as a more  \;capacious intellectual\, ethical \, and methodological practice – one capable of locating theory in the o rdinary\, the intimate\, the embodied\, and the unfinished. In doing so\, she asks what becomes possible when ethnographic writing is oriented not p rimarily toward explaining Black death\, but toward apprehending the densi ty\, thought\, relation\, and aliveness of Black life.

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Aimee Mered ith Cox is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the New York Universi ty. She is a critical ethnographer\, writer\, and movement artist. Cox has performed and toured internationally with Ailey II and the Dance Theatre of Harlem and has choreographed performances as interventions in public an d private space in Newark\, Philadelphia\, and Brooklyn.

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