In her recent podcast Immigrants and Coronavirus, anthropologist Dr Maruska Svasek explores the impact of the pandemic on the lives of various migrant women in Ireland:
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Lockdown Baking Competition
We are delighted to announce the winners of our Staff and Student April baking competition. Take a look at the winners and honourable mentions below and the mouth-watering photos of their creations! STUDENTS Cake Category Winners Cake Category Honorable Mentions Buns and Bread Category Winner Buns and Bread Honorable Mentions “Nailed it” Category Winner “Nailed […]
There are many ways in which people of different social, economic, political, religious and ethnic backgrounds have been engaged in place-making in Northern Ireland. This fascinating process has been explored by a growing number of lecturers, students and postdoctoral researchers at QUB (Komarova and Svašek 2018). On Monday 29th March, the Indian Community Centre Belfast will […]
By Tom Marshall, PhD Candidate in Anthropology Kathakali is a Hindu temple acting tradition, originating in Kerala, South India. The repertoire of Kathakali are the stories from sacred texts such as the Mahabharata and Ramayana. I was first mesmerised by Kathakali when I saw a performance in 1995, lasting a few hours. I understood then from the pre-performance talk that […]
We are delighted to announce the winners of our Staff and Student Lockdown fashion competition, Ella Jepson (student category) and Susan Templeton (staff category). Take a look at the winners and honourable mentions below! WINNER: STUDENT CATEGORY WINNER: STAFF CATEGORY See below our honourable mentions in staff and student categories – thank you to everyone […]
The delight of stepping into a warm bath after a long, busy day. A sense of intense relaxation. Do all migrants feel like that when they open a book written in their own language? Words and phrases so familiar, echoes of childhood: ‘kloddertjes’, ‘klontjes’, ‘een spookachtig moment’. I hardly ever read Dutch literature these days, […]
Maruška Svašek Reader in Anthropology On 7 June 2020, angry protesters, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, pulled down the Edward Colston monument in Bristol. Objections to the depiction of someone who had been involved in the Atlantic slave trade had been made as early as 1920, but had become increasingly strong from the […]
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Immobile Lives
And three months later…
John Connelly Professor in History at University of California, Berkeley, and Fulbright Fellow at QUB, HAPP from January till June, 2020 02/06/2020 Greetings from Berkeley to lovely Belfast, Maruška [Svasek] encouraged me to write some reflections on lock-down and until a few hours ago, I thought I had nothing to write. Then came news of […]
Maruška Svašek Reader in Anthropology 28/05/2020 At the start of lockdown, having to miss out on life drawing sessions and driven by ongoing research into transnational family dynamics, communication technology and emotions (Svašek 2007; 2010; 2011; 2012; 2018; 2020), I started using Skype and WhatsApp to paint relatives and friends in their home environments. I […]