Maison de la Paix Meeting Centre
Maison de la paix, Geneva
How is the eventfulness of violence dispersed in everyday life through the work of time? Interrogating the fantasy of a hidden interiority, this lecture investigates how speech, sound, and gesture wash over each other as cascading waves of memory in ordinary lives. How might we acknowledge an ethics based on ordinary realism as adequate or right in these circumstances?
The Annual Lecture of the Pierre du Bois Foundation will be given by Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent books are Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty (2015) and Living and Dying in the Contemporary World (co-edited with Clara Han, 2015). She is a Fellow of the American Academy of arts and sciences and Academy of Scientists from Developing Countries.
The Lecture forms part of the Pierre du Bois annual conference, organised by the Institute’s Department of International History, in partnership with the Pierre du Bois Foundation.