Events

On 12 March, 2019, Tuestday, at 19:00, an anthropologist Martin Demant Frederiksen will deliver a lecture “Nothingness, Anthropology and the Shadowy World of Meaning” within the frames of Anthropological Research Seminars, at ISU Room A 103. The lecture is based on Frederiksen’s new book “An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular” (Zero Books, 2018).

Overview

Despite a number of theoretical differences, the hermeneutical principles of meaning and coherence used to form the basis for anthropological writings. However, issues such as nothingness and empirical meaninglessness or incoherence question the above-mentioned forms of writing and social world analysis. The paper starts with Jean-Paul Sartre’s and Susan Sontag’s statements that nothing exists and “to interpret is to impoverish”, which will allow the speaker to examine the meaning of these statements in terms of anthropological analysis.

Martin Demant Frederiksen is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, the University of Oslo. He is the author of the books “Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia (2013), “Georgian Portraits: Essays on the Afterlives of a Revolution” (2017) and “An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular” (2018).

Language: English

Time: 12 March, 19:00

Location: Room A103, Ilia State University (32 I. Chavchavadze ave.)

Attendance is free.