A discussion of Unstable Ground with Rosalind Morris.

"A discussion of Unstable Ground with Rosalind Morris"
Co-Presented by the Department of Anthropology and the Critical Media Lab
Wednesday November 26th, 12:30pm-2:15pm, Peterson Hall 116

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A link to the two chapters being discussed will be sent with your ticket, please read them in preparation.

Biography: Rosalind Morris is an anthropologist, cultural theorist and documentarian who is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Her most recent books are Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa (2025, winner of the CU Press Distinguished Book Prize for 2025); For Lack of a Dictionary: poems (2025) and the edited volume, Reconocimientos: A Memoir of Becoming, by Rafael Sanchez. Her media works include the award-winning documentary film, We are Zama Zama, and the flexible multi-channel installation, 'The Zama Zama Project,' which was an official selection of the Berlinale Forum Expanded in 2021. She is also co-librettist, with Yvette Christiansë of the operas, Southern Crossings and Cities of Salt.