CANCELED- Lisa Stevenson | Otro Lugar or Another Place

When Lisa Stevenson's friend Elisa, a Colombian migrant to Ecuador, moves into a house beside the polluted Machángara river in Quito, bodies from her village in Colombia begin to float down. Can two rivers in two countries at two times coincide? We live in the world but also, in a certain sense, somewhere else. Following Merleau-Ponty, Stevenson argues for a mode of being in space and time that she calls the “not-elsewhere,” which has implications for how we think about the appropriate context for description in medical anthropology.

About the Speaker

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Lisa Stevenson is Associate Professor, William Dawson Scholar, and Chair in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. Her book Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic (University of California Press, 2014) won the 2015 Victor Turner Book Prize and the 2020 Staley Prize. Stevenson was recently a Mellon New Directions Fellow, studying filmmaking in order to better use the power of film to capture the lived experience of violence among Colombian migrants to Ecuador.

About the Series

Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop

Sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and made possible by support from Linda Randall Meier, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.