Keynote Speaker

Dace Dzenovska is an Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Migration at the University of Oxford. Her research interests pertain to the changing relationships between people, place, state, and capital in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. To that end, she has studied how residents of Latvia were summoned to change their understandings of self and community via European Union-supported tolerance promotion projects. This resulted in the book School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia (Cornell, 2018). Currently, she is completing two books: a book about migration and sovereignty in an inter-imperial terrain entitled Empires We Choose: Migration and Sovereignty in a Double Periphery; and a digital-born multimodal book Emptiness: Keyplaces of Our Times, which is based on a collaborative and comparative ethnographic project in Latvia, Ukraine, Armenia, and Russia (http://www.emptiness.eu/). Her articles have appeared in American Ethnologist, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Slavic Review, Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, among others.