Experiments in Ethnography + Graphic Art
dr. AMELIA FISKE (March 18, 2025)
Dr Amelia Fiske is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for the History + Ethics of Medicine at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Her work is situated at the intersection of cultural anthropology, science + technology studies, graphic art, social medicine + bioethics, and environmental humanities. She has over a decade of experience conducting interdisciplinary qualitative and ethnographic research in two key areas: 1) Anthropological and critical social science approaches to bioethics, artificial intelligence, and digital and sociotechnical shifts in knowledge production; 2) Ethnographic attention to issues of social-ecological justice, experiences of toxicity in the context of extraction, participatory research methods, and graphic arts.
In this talk, Art Dr. Fiske brings us a deeper understanding of her work based on more than 2 years of ethnographic fieldwork in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Dr. Fiske shares more on her graphic novel Toxic: A Tour of Ecuadorian Amazon and other experiments in using graphic art as a tool of public engagement on issues of toxicity, extraction, + environmental justice.
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