• In conversation with Maya Mikdashi

  • Mar 13 2023
  • Length: 32 mins
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In conversation with Maya Mikdashi

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  • Gala Rexer welcomes Maya Mikdashi, Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Lecturer in the Middle East Studies Program at Rutgers University, to talk about her book Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism and the State in Lebanon (Stanford, 2022). Maya reflects on the multi-disciplinary genealogy of her book, and describes what it means to take different fields (anthropology, gender studies, and Middle East studies) seriously. This conversation also engages with the relationship between geopolitics, epistemology, and methodology, and with the making and unmaking of categories when we ask the same question from different locations. Maya also talks about doing ethnography and archival work, and our own investment in meaning and the desire to fix truth as scholars.

     

    This conversation was recorded on 27th January 2023.

    Speakers: Dr Gala Rexer, postdoctoral fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre //

    Maya Mikdashi, Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University.  

    Producer: Lucy Stagg and Dr Gala Rexer

    Editors: Kaissa Karhu 


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