The SOAN Conversation Series in the Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology Department and the Institute of Gender and Women's Studies (IGWS) is co-sponsoring the second talk of the spring semester featuring
Tessa Farmer, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies and the University of Virginia and a visiting scholar at IGWS. She will discuss how people locate the social and material networks they need to thrive by focusing on water management and gifting in Cairo. Women work to build and maintain human ties that are about love, companionship, safety and possibility, as well as danger, irritation and uncertainty. The talk will discuss how connections are forged in a Cairo neighborhood that indexes both processes of discovery and processes of instantiation.
