Taking Account(s): Witnessing as an Act of Care

Taking Account(s): Witnessing as an Act of Care

Workshop
Virtual

Thursday, October 28, 2021
6:00 PM CST

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Alyssa James, on the left, and Brendane Tynes, co-hosts of the podcast, "Zora's Daughters."

As anthropologists, Alyssa James and Brendane Tynes, co-hosts of Zora’s Daughters, are especially adept at interviewing, but it is Black feminist methodologies that transforms interviews from tools of knowledge gathering to moments of co-experience. This 2-hour workshop will define and complicate “care” through Black feminist epistemologies, model approaches to interviewing, and offer practices of care that align with the themes of homemaking and building community.

Alyssa A.L. James is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University and co-host of the Black feminist anthropology podcast Zora's Daughters. She is a 2020 SSHRC Doctoral Fellow whose research examines the consequences of recasting colonial history for Caribbean subjectivities and futures. She interrogates the discourses and practices that transform commodities into heritage - and history into commodity - as it unfolds through Martinique’s nascent coffee revival project. In her free time, you’ll find Alyssa dancing, travelling, and writing about it.

Brendane Tynes is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is a 2018 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow whose research centers the affective experiences of Black people in the Movement for Black Lives. Her research stands at the intersections of affect theory, Anthropology, and Black Studies with a particular emphasis on Black feminist anthropological theory and praxis. In her free time, Brendane enjoys writing poetry and dancing.

Recording and transcripts available upon request.