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DESCRIPTION:The Anthropology Department welcomes Suvi Rautio\, to deliver h
 er lecture “Keep It in the Family: Writing With Silence.”When anthropologi
 sts work on life projects that are part microhistory and part memoir\, lea
 rning how to protect—or when necessary\, break—research participants’ unsp
 oken secrets becomes fundamental. Through an ethnographic account that beg
 ins with my family history\, this lecture explores the challenges that are
  explicitly marked by knowing when to probe into secrets and knowing when 
 to refrain from doing so. Building on anthropological literature on silenc
 e and secrets\, I write about the relationship between myself\, an anthrop
 ologist\, and my father\, my research participant\, as I piece together th
 e lived experiences of my wider kin as a Chinese-Finnish mixed-race family
  living in Beijing under Mao Zedong’s rule. At a time when careful monitor
 ing and mutual surveillance geared people’s everyday affairs\, I describe 
 how secrets\, self-enforced social forgetting\, repression and disremember
 ing explicitly shapes the biographical&nbsp\;narratives of many that grew 
 up in this insulated environment. Collaboration and co-production remain f
 undamental tools that allow me to probe into the gulf between silence and 
 the stories that my interlocutors tell of themselves to protect silence.Su
 vi Rautio is a postdoctoral researcher in anthropology at the University o
 f Helsinki\, and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow based at CUNY.
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SUMMARY:Keep It in the Family: Writing With Silence
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>The Anthropology Department welcomes Suvi R
 autio\, to deliver her lecture “Keep It in the Family: Writing With Silenc
 e.”</p><p>When anthropologists work on life projects that are part microhi
 story and part memoir\, learning how to protect—or when necessary\, break—
 research participants’ unspoken secrets becomes fundamental. Through an et
 hnographic account that begins with my family history\, this lecture explo
 res the challenges that are explicitly marked by knowing when to probe int
 o secrets and knowing when to refrain from doing so. </p><p>Building on an
 thropological literature on silence and secrets\, I write about the relati
 onship between myself\, an anthropologist\, and my father\, my research pa
 rticipant\, as I piece together the lived experiences of my wider kin as a
  Chinese-Finnish mixed-race family living in Beijing under Mao Zedong’s ru
 le. </p><p>At a time when careful monitoring and mutual surveillance geare
 d people’s everyday affairs\, I describe how secrets\, self-enforced socia
 l forgetting\, repression and disremembering explicitly shapes the biograp
 hical&nbsp\;narratives of many that grew up in this insulated environment.
  Collaboration and co-production remain fundamental tools that allow me to
  probe into the gulf between silence and the stories that my interlocutors
  tell of themselves to protect silence.</p><p>Suvi Rautio is a postdoctora
 l researcher in anthropology at the University of Helsinki\, and a Marie S
 kłodowska-Curie Global Fellow based at CUNY.</p>
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