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DESCRIPTION:Lecture title:\n\nKnotted Catastrophes: Entangled Histories Bet
 ween Genocide and Ecocide\n\nby Professor Yael Navaro\, University of Cambr
 idge\n\nAbstract:\n\nThis lecture traces structural continuities between ge
 nocide and ecocide in Turkey. Bringing ethnographic work on the aftermath o
 f the Armenian genocide into relief through fieldwork in Antakya in the aft
 ermath of the earthquake of 2023\, I follow the trail of trees and plants t
 hat have survived the catastrophes that have surrounded them by talking to 
 the people who now live with or in relation to them. This distinctively env
 ironmental approach to the anthropology of the state leads me to cross-refe
 rence and co-analyze mass political violence and natural catastrophe as ent
 angled histories. The lecture engages environmental anthropology with polit
 ical violence studies\, and vice versa\, engendering critiques of both fiel
 ds through its ethnographic trails.  \n\nBio:\n\nYael Navaro is Professor o
 f Social\, Political and Psychological Anthropology at the University of Ca
 mbridge\, where she has been teaching since 1999. Originally from Istanbul\
 , Turkey\, she completed her PhD at Princeton University (1998)\, followed 
 by a period of teaching at the University of Edinburgh. Her first book Face
 s of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey (Princeton University 
 Press\, 2002)\, based on fieldwork on conflict between secularists and Isla
 mists in Istanbul\, established her as a key contributor to 'the anthropolo
 gy of the state' through research on the production of a state-revering cul
 ture in the Turkish public sphere. With her second book\, The Make-Believe 
 Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity (Duke University Press\, 201
 2)\, based on long-term fieldwork in Northern Cyprus and its unrecognized a
 dministration\, she developed new methods for the ethnographic study of pos
 twar environments\, actively engaging and recasting materialist and affecti
 ve approaches. A newer co-edited volume entitled Reverberations: Violence A
 cross Time and Space (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2021) is based on 
 a European Research Council (ERC) grant which she led as PI under the title
  "Living with Remnants: Politics\, Materiality and Subjectivity in the Afte
 rmath of Past Atrocities in Turkey." Her ethnographic and theoretical/conce
 ptual work has been situated in the anthropology of politics\, of history a
 nd memory\, of affect and the emotions\, as well as\, more recently\, as in
  today's lecture\, in an environmental anthropology.
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SUMMARY:Bernd Lambert Memorial Lecture:  Yael Navaro
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 varo
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