Round Tables > Young Research : fieldwork

WRITING A THESIS ON THE AMERICAS : FIELDWORK EXPERIENCES

Wednesday, September 22nd, 10am-12pm

Centre de Colloques, room 2

Organization : Margaux De Barros (AmericaS - Université libre de Bruxelles), Céline Erauw (AmericaS - Université libre de Bruxelles), Andrew Meyer (LAS – EHESS), Marion Magnan (Institut des Amériques) et Guillermo Vargas (Institut des Amériques)

Speakers : Audrey Brennan (Université libre de Bruxelles,Université de Laval), Alexandre Ferrere (Université Paris
Nanterre), Daniela Salgado Cofré (Université libre de Bruxelles), Arihana Villamil (URMIS - Université Côte d’Azur)

Presentation : The young researchers of Americas are happy to collaborate with those of the Institut des Amériques byorganizing a round table conceived as a space for exchanging over fieldwork. This round table will be structured around two main objectives:

- Questioning the place of the doctoral student in the field: mostly mobilized in foreign fields, as young researchers we must face questions about our place within spaces which we are sometimes unfamiliar with and culturally distant from. The purpose here is to explore reflexive questions related to our presence on the field, articulating the parameters of age with those of class, gender and race.

- Examine the means deployed to confront unexpected events and issues encountered in this field: we are sometimes confronted with some unexpected and fortuitous situations, such as political and social conflict and violence, an epidemic, or more prosaically the prohibition of access to the field by its actors. Those events can jeopardize the optimal realization of the fieldwork and lead us to compose with these unexpected events or even reroute our research.

Through this round table, we hope the doctoral students will have the opportunity to share their experiences and practices of research and exchange about the tools and devices they set up to achieve their thesis in the best possible conditions. 

Cette table-ronde est organisée dans le cadre du partenariat entre l’Institut des Amériques et le laboratoire AmericaS de l’Université libre de Bruxelles.