WORKSHOP & CONFERENCES
Security and Risks of Fieldwork

Date & Time
May 29, 2019
10:00 – 15:00
Location
Palacký University, Vodární 6, Trainee centre, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Abstract
Aim of the workshop is to open a discussion about security and risks of anthropological fieldwork. The workshop addresses question how to protect fieldworker against risks stemming from both environmental and cultural conditions and selected topic of fieldwork. The history shows that anthropologists face many types of risks because of diversity and conditions under the do their work.
Program
09:30 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 11:30 Ethnography: The Risky Business of Documenting Repression
Keynote speech by Jeanne Marie Stumpf-Carome
11:30 – 13:00 LUNCH
13:00 – 13:30 Conditions and Risks of Fieldwork
Opening speech for discussion by Martin Soukup
13:30 – 14:00 Playing with Barriers in Restricted Access Border Zone
Natalya Ryzhova
14:00 – 15:00 Discussion