# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Inaugural Lecture, Maruška Svašek, Professor of Anthropology
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: .About this EventStretched Ethnography From Art to Anthropology and BackInaugural lectures are ritual-heavy events. True to the spirit of the occasion, the performance starts with an ancestral invocation and takes you on a circular ceremonial journey: from my early engagement with art, and a slow transition into anthropology, to a rediscovery of creative practice as mode of learning, collaboration and communication. The central argument is that, since improvisation lies at the heart of ethnographic fieldwork, the stretch to poetry, painting, collage, drama, film, dance, and sonic experimentation is not a huge jump. I capture the intention with the term ‘stretched ethnography’, which emphasises the effort needed to let go of academic inhibitions, the confidence and strength gained through repeated practice, and the ever-present possibility that the elastic breaks, when outcomes fail to have ethnographic relevance. While this is not necessarily a problem, I like to make a case for the pull back of anthropology’s core principles: immersive fieldwork, a deep interest in multiple voices, and critical epistemological analysis.Maruška Svašek is Professor of Anthropology at Queens University Belfast, co-Director of the Centre for Creative Ethnography, and Fellow of the Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. Her research focuses on the affective relationality of humans, artefacts, and spaces in an era of connectivity and environmental change. In the past decade, she has experimented with non-textual forms of representation, resulting in installations, poetry, paintings, a play, and short experimental films. Her publications include Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space: Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland (2018, with Milena Komarova), Creativity in Transition: Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe (2016, with Birgit Meyer), Emotions and Human Mobility: Ethnographies of Movement (2012), Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions (2012), Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (2007), Postsocialism: Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe (2006) and Mixed Emotions: Anthropological Studies of Feelings (2005, with Kay Milton).This event is hosted by the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen's University Belfast.For any queries, please contact Lorna O'Connorlorna.oconnor@qub.ac.uk
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/belfast/inaugural-lecture-maruška-svašek-professor-of-anthropology/100001985505769204
- **Event Categories**: Art, Entertainment, fine-arts, literary-art, Theatre, performances
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Belfast
- **state**: NI
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: The Brian Friel Theatre
- **lat**: 54.5854544
- **long**: -5.9339485
- **full address**: The Brian Friel Theatre, 20 University Square, Belfast, United Kingdom

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- **Q**: When and where is Inaugural Lecture, Maruška Svašek, Professor of Anthropology being held?
  - **A:** Inaugural Lecture, Maruška Svašek, Professor of Anthropology takes place on Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm at The Brian Friel Theatre, 20 University Square, Belfast, United Kingdom.
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  - **A:** Inaugural Lecture, Maruška Svašek, Professor of Anthropology is organized by Lorna O'Connor.
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