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- Convenors:
-
Rosita Henry
(James Cook University)
Chandana Mathur (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Faye Harrison (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign )
- Stream:
- Worlds in motion: Human rights, Laws and Trafficking/Mondes en mouvement: Droits humains, lois et traffics
- Location:
- LMX 339
- Start time:
- 6 May, 2017 at
Time zone: America/New_York
- Session slots:
- 1
Short Abstract:
This roundtable discussion, co-convened by the WCAA Ethics Taskforce and the WCAA-IUAES Working Group on Anthropological Fieldwork and Risk in a Violent World, elicits Professor Homa Hoodfar’s reflections on academic freedom and on her recent incarceration in Iran.
Long Abstract:
This conversation with Professor Homa Hoodfar, jointly convened by the WCAA Ethics Taskforce and the WCAA-IUAES Working Group on Anthropological Fieldwork and Risk in a Violent World, builds on the discussion of 'dangerous' fieldwork begun at the 2016 IUAES Inter-Congress through the consideration of a specific recent experience. Professor Hoodfar, an anthropologist noted for her contributions to Middle Eastern Studies, was detained in Tehran's infamous Evin prison for a period of 112 days from 6th June to 26th September 2016 on fabricated charges of acting against the Iranian state. Her prosecutor also accused her of "dabbling in feminism". Speaking to Chandana Mathur, Faye Harrison and Rosita Henry, Professor Hoodfar will offer her thoughts about the risks associated with anthropological research and the ways in which world anthropologists can engage in concrete actions to promote and defend academic freedom. It is also an opportunity to learn more details of her experience as an ethnographic witness and participant observer of political persecution and the carceral state in Iran from a transnational and feminist perspective.
Accepted paper:
Session 1Rosita Henry (James Cook University) Faye Harrison (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ) Chandana Mathur (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) Homa Hoodfar (Concordia )
Paper short abstract:
This roundtable discussion, co-convened by the WCAA Ethics Taskforce and the WCAA-IUAES Working Group on Anthropological Fieldwork and Risk in a Violent World, elicits Professor Homa Hoodfar’s reflections on academic freedom and on her recent incarceration in Iran.
Paper long abstract:
This conversation with Professor Homa Hoodfar, jointly convened by the WCAA Ethics Taskforce and the WCAA-IUAES Working Group on Anthropological Fieldwork and Risk in a Violent World, builds on the discussion of 'dangerous' fieldwork begun at the 2016 IUAES Inter-Congress through the consideration of a specific recent experience. Professor Hoodfar, an anthropologist noted for her contributions to Middle Eastern Studies, was detained in Tehran's infamous Evin prison for a period of 112 days from 6th June to 26th September 2016 on fabricated charges of acting against the Iranian state. Her prosecutor also accused her of "dabbling in feminism". Speaking to Chandana Mathur, Faye Harrison and Rosita Henry, Professor Hoodfar will offer her thoughts about the risks associated with anthropological research and the ways in which world anthropologists can engage in concrete actions to promote and defend academic freedom. It is also an opportunity to learn more details of her experience as an ethnographic witness and participant observer of political persecution and the carceral state in Iran from a transnational and feminist perspective.