Inimkond: Professor Helena Wulff: Telling the Truth Through Irish Fiction

Our next Inimkond seminar will be held by Dr Helena Wulff from Stockholm University, Sweden, and is titled Telling the Truth Through Irish Fiction: Anthropology and the Literary Imagination.

The seminar will take place on Wednesday, March 25th, from 6 to 8pm in room M-342 (Tallinn University Mare building). You are cordially invited to attend!

See also the Facebook event.

Abstract
Drawing on my anthropological study of the social world of contemporary Irish fiction writers and their work, the idea of this seminar is twofold, firstly to explore the making of a writer´s career in Ireland, and secondly to consider literary imagination in relation to anthropology. I am primarily interested in literary imagination as an object of study – how and what Irish writers imagine, but I am also intrigued by how literary imagination can enrich the anthropological enterprise both when it comes to knowledge construction and writing practice.


Bio
Prof Wulff has held visiting professorships at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the National Univ. of Singapore and the Universities of Vienna, Ulster and East London. She was the Vice-President of EASA and editor of that organisation's journal Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale. She is the author of 'Ballet across Borders: Career and Culture in the World of Dancers' (1998, Berg), 'Dancing at the Crossroads: Memory and Mobility in Ireland' (2007, Berghahn), as well as the editor of the volumes 'The Emotions: A Cultural Reader' (2007, Berg) and 'Youth Cultures: A Cross-Cultural Perspective' (1995 with Vered Amit-Talai, Routledge).

Inimkond: Current Issues in Anthropology and Beyond
full program at http://www.tlu.ee/en/estonian-institute-of-humanities/Anthropology/inimkond

This seminar series features speakers from anthropology and related fields, and fosters discussion of their research with a transdisciplinary audience. It aims to contribute to the culture of academic scholarship and debate at Tallinn University. Speakers include both local researchers and guests from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and with various takes on anthropological theory and methods. Presentations in the seminar series will be of interest to staff and students in anthropology, cultural theory, sociology, and history, among others.