29.9.2014
Yael Navaro-Yashin, University of Cambridge:
“Encrypted Arabic: Language and Subjectivity in a Turkish-Syrian Border Town”

Yael Navaro-Yashin completed her PhD in Anthropology at Princeton
University (1998); was Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of
Edinburgh (1997-1999) and Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University
of Cambridge (from 1999), now Reader in Social Anthropology at the
University of Cambridge (2013 – onwards). She has taught as Visiting
Professor at Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), the
University of Cyprus, and Australian National University (ANU). She is the
author of Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey
(Princeton University Press, 2002) and The Make-Believe Space: Affective
Geography in a Postwar Polity (Duke University Press, 2012) which was
awarded the 2013 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology. She
is currently Principal Investigator on a European Research Council (ERC)
Consolidator Grant (2012-2017) on a project entitled “Living with Remnants:
Politics, Materiality, and Subjectivity in the Aftermath of Past Atrocities
in Turkey.” She is currently conducting anthropological fieldwork in
Antakya, close to Turkey’s border with Syria.

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