Colloquium: Dr. David Todd Lawrence: The Soul to See; The Courage to Fail
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This week's podcast is a replay of Dr. David Todd Lawrence's colloquium talk, “The Soul to See; The Courage to Fail: Ethnography, Relationships, and Social Change," from November 5, 2021. In his talk Dr. Lawrence offers searing insight on the nature of both collaborative research and writing and the necessity of advocacy and the inevitability of failing while doing so. Even if you were present for the talk, we think that this episode should be mandatory listening for students and scholars alike -- Enjoy! "Building on a discussion of work with research collaborators from Pinhook, Missouri, this presentation will engage the significant challenges of collaborative fieldwork and make the argument that approaches such as Hoodoo Ethnography can direct us in the impossible yet necessary project of advocacy even as we learn to accept the inevitable failures that accompany it. Ultimately, it will make a case that human relationships within and across cultural boundaries, byproducts of deep listening and collaboration, are the foundation of social change even as they almost always are fraught with difficulty and failure."
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