[Upcoming Seminar] Fluid Fields, Elusive Subjects, Exposed Ethnographers: Changing Spatialities of Engaged Scholarship in Transnational Migration

Fluid Fields, Elusive Subjects, Exposed Ethnographers: Changing Spatialities of Engaged Scholarship in Transnational Migration

Speaker: Murat ES
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 pm, 9 Oct 2015 (Friday) 
Venue: Room 401, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK

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In this talk, Prof. Es will focus on the changing modes of interaction between ethnographers and their research participants in an age of accelerated mobility and sustained connectivity. He will draw on his experience of conducting multi-sited ethnographic research (Turkey and the Netherlands) on a politically sensitive subject (mosque organizations) to discuss the opportunities for, and challenges to ethical and engaged scholarship.

Prof. Murat Es is Assistant Professor in Urban Studies Programme/Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK. His work highlights the co-construction of urban spaces and identities through cross-cultural encounters forged by national and transnational mobilities. Murat has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands and Turkey with ethno-religious minority groups. His current research explores practices of citizenship, belonging, and urban development in Turkey and Hong Kong.

ALL INTERESTED ARE WELCOME.