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Conversations About our Scholarly Lives - How To Write About ‘Secrecy’ Without Destroying the Secret

12:00 PM  - 1:00 PM
Monday Nov 9, 2009
Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching (Room 338), DeWitt Wallace Library

Olga Gonzalez, Anthropology.   Gonzalez’s forthcoming book focuses on the relationship between memory, truth and secrecy through the analysis of oral histories and indigenous paintings depicting events of political violence in the Quechua-speaking community of Sarhua (Ayacucho, Peru) during the armed conflict between the Shining Path and the Peruvian government. She is interested in a discussion about how to write about secrets in a way that secrets are not destroyed by exposure, but subject to a revelation that does justice to them. In Sarhua the “secretly familiar” was fratricide. Should researchers write about secrets at all?  This event is open to all faculty. Lunch provided. No RSVP necessary.

Contact: 651-696-6605

This event is for: Faculty

Sponsored By: Center for Scholarship and Teaching (CST)

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