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17:00 -18:30 On Other Terms: Interfering in Social Science English gathers texts of authors whose first language is not English. Granted, English allows us to have conversations with lots of others, but at the same time it sets a particular tone. Other terms from other tongues offer other possibilities. During this event one of the editors, Annemarie Mol, will shortly introduce the stakes of the project and say something about studying the Dutch term ‘schoon’. Olga Sezneva will talk about the text she co-authored with Liubov Chernysheva, in which they use field work done in two kinds of Russian collective housing sites to unravel the term ‘obshcheye’ - a lot richer than the alleged English equivalent ‘commons’. Amade M’charek makes apparent that writing about ‘harraga’ - rather than ‘migration’ - helps to shift one’s perspective to the people who engage in harraga - in her case from Tunisia to Europe - and to also attend to the stuff that takes the same route

Noord hollandOlav velthuisOlga seznevaAmade mcharekAnnemarie molLiubov chernyshevaDepartment of sociologyUniversity of amsterdamAnthropology of the university amsterdamSocial science englishAmadem charekCultural sociologistProfessor anthropologyGlobalising cultureநூற்த் ஹாலண்ட்அந்நேமரியே மோள்