Performances of Public Anthropology
Roundtable at the international hybrid conference Distribute 2020
Public anthropology’s goal is to make anthropological knowledge accessible outside the academy, thus placing anthropology’s relation to the public -- or more often the lack of it -- at the core of the discussion. This panel focuses on alternative ethnographic methods -- extra-textual formats (videos, performance art, song) and experimental public events (stand-up comedy, games, confestivals) -- as modes of disseminating anthropological thought beyond academia, and discusses how performative formats could contribute to rethinking theoretical and methodological issues in anthropology and redefining our relation to the public.
Penelope Papailias speaks about the experience of producing and staging public anthropological events as a new mode of pedagogy, collaboration, conviviality and communication, with potential to re-form relations (and hierarchies) between research and teaching, students and professors, the university and the local community.
Eleana Yalouri discusses how experimental methods question dominant assumptions around knowledge production.
Aris Anagnostopoulos addresses the interplay between anthropology, performance art and community engagement.
Alexandra Siotou and Alexandros Papageorgiou discuss the possibilities, limitations and ramifications of using the genre of stand-up comedy as a tool for public anthropology.
*Video concept and creation by Konstantinos Diamantis
Penelope Papailias speaks about the experience of producing and staging public anthropological events as a new mode of pedagogy, collaboration, conviviality and communication, with potential to re-form relations (and hierarchies) between research and teaching, students and professors, the university and the local community.
Eleana Yalouri discusses how experimental methods question dominant assumptions around knowledge production.
Aris Anagnostopoulos addresses the interplay between anthropology, performance art and community engagement.
Alexandra Siotou and Alexandros Papageorgiou discuss the possibilities, limitations and ramifications of using the genre of stand-up comedy as a tool for public anthropology.
*Video concept and creation by Konstantinos Diamantis
