Please join CU Boulder’s Department of Anthropology for a cabaret and book launch!

Ronan Viard & Co, “Me and Us”

& Book launch for Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship and Care, edited by Kathryn Goldfarb and Sandra Bamford, with by a panel discussion featuring Ronan Viard, Alphonse Keasley, Carole McGranahan, and Kathryn Goldfarb considering the complexities of family and storytelling through theater and ethnography

Thursday, October 24, 5:30-7:30pm

Hale Science (1350 Pleasant St, Boulder, CO 80309), room 230

Preceded by a reception, 4:30-5:30pm, Hale Science room 450

Ronan Viard’s cabaret—storytelling interspersed with music—recounts how his father abducted him from his home in France to the United States when he was eight years old. Viard shares the ways this traumatic experience shaped his life as a foreigner now living in the country of his father’s dreams, and as a parent and an artist.

Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship and Care explores how family relations may be about connection and inclusion but are also about disconnection, exclusion, neglect, and violence. The volume features eighteen chapters from diverse anthropologists, examining the ambivalent ways we are in relation to each other.

For remote participation, please register in advance: 

https://cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrdumvrTouHdT3wrWSutdDF0-k0lbTDr8R

Free and open to the public

Please contact Kathryn.Goldfarb@Colorado.edu with any questions

Generously sponsored by: CU Boulder Departments of Anthropology; History; Geography; Sociology; Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences; Linguistics; and the College of Media, Communication and Information