Mershon Mondays
Mershon Mondays are in-house events for Mershon Center affiliates and their guests. They are a forum for relaxed sharing of field stories, work in progress, and reflections on methods and emerging areas of research. Mershon Mondays take place on most weeks of the semester, in Derby 1039. Lunch is served at 12:15, and discussion goes from 12:30 to 1:30. For 2025-2027, Mershon postdocs will take the lead in programming Mershon Monday conversations. We welcome your suggestions for topics and presenters, and especially encourage active participation from grad students. Registration links will be sent via the Mershon in-house listservs.
Fall 2024
September 9, 2024 at 12:15pm (Derby Hall 1039)
Ashley Bigham, Associate Professor in Architecture
Ashley Bigham will discuss her research on how Ukrainian architects and creatives use architecture to build hope in the context of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Ashley was recently awarded a Mershon Center Faculty Grant, Constructing Hope: Ukraine. The project and gallery exhibition was recently featured in a NYTimes article, "How Architecture Became one of Ukraine's Essential Defenses."
September 16, 2023 at 12:15pm (Derby Hall 1039)
Madhumita Dutta, Associate Professor in Geography
Madhumita Dutta will discuss her recent field stories from India- ‘Doing river ethnographies’.
September 23 , 2023 at 12:15pm (Derby Hall 1039)
José Pérez, Ph.D. Student in Political Science
José Pérez will share stories from recent fieldwork among Venezuelan migrants and refugees living in Brazil. He will offer theoretical and methodological reflections on what “security” means in a context of heightened vulnerabilities, as he shares excerpts from some of his interviews.
September 30, 2024 at 12:15pm (Derby Hall 1039)
Rasel Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts
Professor Ahmed will tell us about his involvement with the recent student-led uprising in Bangladesh, the history of students' involvement in shaping the future of the country, and his experience making a film in Dhaka amidst the unrest.
October 7, 2024 at 12:15pm (Derby Hall 1039)
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October 14, 2024 at 12:15pm (Derby Hall 1039)
Charles Laubach, Ph.D. Student in History
Charles Laubach will discuss his research on the interplay between air power and diplomacy in the context of American intervention in Bosnia in the early 1990s.