Aeron O’Connor
@_aeron_
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Anthropologist working in Tajikistan | Lecturer in Social Anthropology at UCL @UCLIRDR | All views my own
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Joined May 2009
My latest article is out in History & Anthropology @tandfonline. Includes fascinating first-hand accounts from Tajikistan, Pakistan and beyond of cross-border friendships formed through Persian poetry exchanges.
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While Cold War historiography often foregrounds severed or frayed political ties, this article ethnographically explores unexpected friendships forming across apparent Cold War divides between Sovi...
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RT @UCLSSEES: 🔊 Tomorrow!. Please join us for this Politics & Sociology seminar with @_aeron_ of @UCLRDR to hear more about sustaining valu….
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A SSEES Politics and Sociology seminar with Dr Aeron O’Connor, Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction, UCL
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RT @CreativeCorazon: Come to @_aeron_ Aeron O’Connor talk next Thursday, 23 Jan at 5 pm, Masaryk Room! The talk is part of SSEES Politics a….
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A SSEES Politics and Sociology seminar with Dr Aeron O’Connor, Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction, UCL
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Thank you for the invite @CCAForum, looking forward to it.
@CCAForum Seminar on 10th May with Aeron O’Connor (University College London) on .'Peeking under the #Asian Iron Curtain: #Socialist, #Persianate and anti-colonial modes of friendship between #Pakistani and #Tajik poets' Room S1 and on zoom 11am.
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RT @MadinaGazieva: Persianate, socialist and anti-colonial bonds between Tajik and Pakistani poets during the Cold War by @_aeron_ https:/….
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While Cold War historiography often foregrounds severed or frayed political ties, this article ethnographically explores unexpected friendships forming across apparent Cold War divides between Sovi...
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Exciting new article out by @DanielHaines1 on the temporal subjectivity of experiencing an earthquake, and the relationship between emotion and time perception! “Timescapes, subjectivity and emotions after the India–Tibet earthquake, 1950”
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Abstract. Scholarship on historical temporality has explored what time meant to people in the past. Going further, how did historical actors’ perception of
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Here's my @CSSHJournal article, published earlier this year: 'Opera as Critical “Synthesis”: Theorizing the Interface between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism'
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Opera and Anthropology: An Unexpected Conversation on Producing Knowledge about Others
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Thanks @CSSHJournal for inviting me to reflect further on the relationship between opera and anthropology, expanding on my earlier CSSH article - this time alongside visuals and video clips: 'Opera and Anthropology: An Unexpected Conversation on Producing Knowledge about Others'.
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RT @CSSHJournal: Our latest Behind The Scenes features @_aeron_'s reflections on #opera as both the object of her anthropological enquiry a….
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The symposium is in Cambridge and will be live-streamed online. A wonderful lineup of speakers: Susan Bayly, Jacob Copeman, Nick Long, Lam Minh Chau, Magnus Marsden, Joanna Cook, Caroline Humphrey, Filippo Osella, and others!
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An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange. 42 likes. Edited volume published with Berghahn in Setember 2023.
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Excited to be a discussant at next week's symposium 'An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange: Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond' in celebration of Susan Bayly's career and contributions to anthropology
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RT @CSSHJournal: This issue features work by Nana Osei Quarshie, Jonathan Connolly, Joshua M. White, Virág Molnár, Markus Lähteenmäki, @mur….
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RT @UCLIRDR: What could a cross-historical approach to ‘natural’ #disasters and #crises help generate? . Join the "Living with Crises" work….
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RT @GabbySantini: What can a cross-historical approach to natural disasters help generate? Join us on May 30 for a workshop where we'll ask….
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A cross-historical approach to epidemics and urban disasters.
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RT @CSSHJournal: Also out on FirstView, don't miss @_aeron_'s work on Soviet Central Asian opera and "Eastern Others": "#Opera as Critical….
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