À propos de la conférence
My presentation will follow Donna Haraway (2016), who eloquently states that “It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with …” (p. 12), and actively employ “self-reflection” as a timely research approach to tell my story as a “knowledge seeking” migrant during the peak of COVID-19. Using materials from my involvement in two ethnographic research projects between 2020–2022, I will use the ethics of care as an ethnographic lens to talk about my ordinary experience, which I believe will speak to larger narratives and concerns about issues of belonging, meaning-making and place. As Loveless (2015) compellingly points out “to do research—of any kind—is not simply to ask questions, it is to tell stories-that-matter” (p. 54), I hope to make an original contribution to the field of Nepali student mobilities by highlighting and contributing to doing different kinds of ethnographies through narrative inquiry drawing on academic texts and fiction, among others, to construct a story as a meaning-making activity. In doing so, I ask: how might attending to ordinary stories of connection can help make our place in the world?
Zoom: https://ulaval.zoom.us/j/8892424519?pwd=TFBKS3ZmRFppZmVNWUZJaXBpR1djQT09
À propos de la conférencière : Amrita Gurung (Concordia University)
Amrita Gurung is a PhD candidate in the Social and Cultural Analysis Program within the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research is focused on the future of Nepal as seen through the most recent and, potentially, most transformative wave of student migrants in Canada. Using ethnographic and archival methods, her research is an attempt to rethink present day Nepali student mobilities as an aspect of "knowledge seeking" migration that is creating a different future for Nepal. To this end, she highlights the potential of her project to help strengthen socio-cultural and educational links between Canada and Nepal, and, furthermore, her commitment to help foster further research on Nepal in partnership with academic researchers and institutions across Quebec.
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