Please join The Ethnography Studio on March 11th for a conversation with Dr. Paige West on the sustained joys and challenges of working with family. Dr. West will discuss how to work/collaborate/mobilize with people we love, considering the challenges and possibilities we face when thinking and doing are not severed from pre-existing responsibilities. How do science and knowledge take shape in this lively juncture? This is an in-person event and if you would like to join, please RSVP here before March 4th. Refreshments will be provided.

This event will precede Dr. West's Anthropology Colloquium talk at noon. 

Paige West is The Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University. Since the late 1990s, her research and teaching have focused on the relationships between Indigenous ecological knowledge, environmental conservation, and socio-political transformation in Oceania, particularly in Papua New Guinea, where she has conducted over 110 months of field-based research since 1997. Dr. West’s scholarship bridges the social and environmental sciences, exploring themes such as the intersections of conservation and development, Indigenous alternatives to externally imposed environmental agendas, the symbolic and material engagements with biodiversity, the commodification of ecological knowledge, and climate change.Her current research investigates sea level rise, managed retreat, and how communities adapt and forge futures in the face of climate change.

Please direct any questions to [email protected]