Remembering Bodies: The (Im)materiality of the Memory of Violence in Mt. Elgon, Kenya
ACS Works-in-Progress series
Event Details
Date
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Time
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Location
1418 Van Hise Hall
Description
Speaker: Kevin W. Wamalwa ⎻ Joint PhD candidate, Anthropology and African Cultural Studies
From 2005 to 2008, Mt. Elgon, Kenya, experienced a brutal inter-clan land-related conflict between the Soy and Ndorobo groups of the Sabaot community. Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork in the region, Wamalwa examines how material forms of memory in specific locations, spaces, landscapes, and objects intersect with the personal embodied memories of violence.
From 2005 to 2008, Mt. Elgon, Kenya, experienced a brutal inter-clan land-related conflict between the Soy and Ndorobo groups of the Sabaot community. Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork in the region, Wamalwa examines how material forms of memory in specific locations, spaces, landscapes, and objects intersect with the personal embodied memories of violence.
Cost
Free