Visiting Fellow: Dr Koreen Reece, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany
Hosted By: Dr Diego Maria Malara
Dates of visit: 1 March - 15 April 2023
Purpose of visit: Koreen has come to Glasgow to pursue two major projects with her host, : an edited volume on the ways in which everyday acts, practices, and ideas of care rework history and shape social change; and a special issue on how the demarcation of 'generations' tracks changes in social reasoning about the past, present, and future, producing frictions that drive transformation.
During her time at Glasgow, Koreen will also give a talk on her recently-published monograph, Pandemic Kinship: Families, Intervention and Social Change in Botswana's Time of AIDS (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and run a masterclass on ethnographic storytelling. She is keen to find opportunities to build partnerships between Glasgow and the University of Bayreuth, a European leader in the study of Africa, and looks forward to meeting new colleagues at Glasgow and learning more about their work.
Bio: Koreen Reece is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. She conducts research on families, non-governmental organisations, and the state, and the ways they manage - and create - change in times of crisis. Her monograph, Pandemic Kinship: Families, Intervention and Social Change in Botswana’s Time of AIDS (Cambridge University Press, 2022), explores how crisis creates kinship for families navigating the AIDS epidemic and its associated interventions in Botswana. She is developing future research on how social work responds to the climate crisis through families in Botswana; and how families settle and unsettle Canada as a settler nation.