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Monograph out now with Sean Kingston Publishing Purchase here Based on ethnographic research conducted in a town on the Polish-Belarussian border, this book examines borders and the lingering echoes of conflict. Using hauntology as a guiding framework to understand how people live amidst the histories and reverberations of conflicts, the author investigates the role thatContinue reading “Spectral Borders: History, Neighbourliness and Discord on the Polish-Belarusian Frontier”

Panel: Exhibiting Learning – Learning Exhibitions Amy Johnstone (University of Glasgow)Aimee Joyce (St Andrews University)Vindhya Buthpitiya (University of St Andrews) Short abstract:Our panel brings together anthropologists and museum practitioners to explore exhibition as a pedagogic approach. We explore how producing creative public exhibitions offers new opportunities for understanding ethnography, and engaging with complex global entanglements with learners.Continue reading “CFP RAI Anthropology and Education Conference”

Below is the opening of the paper given in Newcastle on November 8th 2023. This paper reflects on the work I have been doing since 2011 in eastern Poland, alongside more recent work in revolutionary heritage sites in the Republic of Ireland. In particular this paper stays with the complications of conducting anthropological research inContinue reading “Newcastle-Durham Joint Anthropology Seminar Script”

Link to Episode 3 of the Society for Reluctant Anthropologists Podcast https://www.sorapod.com/podcast/episode003 “The SORAsians have a fun and deeply insightful conversation with Aimee Joyce, Senior Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews. We talk curses, ethics, traces, the academy (duh), and so much more.”

Traces, Spectres and Fragments: working with quiet histories of conflict. November 8th 2023 This paper is a methodological and ethical reflection on the work I have been doing since 2011 in eastern Poland, alongside more recent work on revolutionary heritage sites in Ireland. In particular this paper looks at the complications of conducting anthropological researchContinue reading “Newcastle-Durham Joint Anthropology Seminar”

Link the TRACTS COST Action website, for details on events past and present, outputs, and information. https://tractsnetwork.online/news/ TRACTS is a COST Action (2021–2025) that brings together scholars from disciplines of the social sciences and humanities with artists, decolonial activists, and memorialization experts to bridge current cultural, political and geographical gaps in research on traces. The network is open and inclusive and you can join anyContinue reading “TRACTS Trace as a Research Agenda for Climate change, Technology studies, and Social Justice”

Available at https://doi.org/10.23858/ethp.2021.42.2714 Joyce, A. (2021). Silent Traces and Deserted Places: Materiality and Silence on Poland’s Eastern Border. Ethnologia Polona, 42. Abstract This article explores how silence is held and transmitted through the materiality of deserted and abandoned places along the Polish frontier; and the generative role that silencing plays in local practices of tolerance. The articleContinue reading “Silent Traces and Deserted Places: Materiality and Silence on Poland’s Eastern Border”

Workshop “Nation-Building and the Dynamics of Silences, Memory and Forgettings” Organised by Elena Soler and hosted by the Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology and Charles University in Prague October 15-16 2020 Paper: Silent Traces and Deserted Places: Materiality and Silence on Poland’s Eastern Border

Historical traces incite powerful forms of action and imagination in the present, enabling and hindering possible futures. These often physical remnants, which persist in the landscape, the environment, the depths of material collections or the body have become vehicles through which to fathom complex histories in order to open up new horizons of possibility. Traces,Continue reading “Conference Panel: Knowing Historical Traces, Eliciting Possible Futures”

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/729304 Abstract This article asserts that the current rise of right wing nationalism in Poland utilizes a set of nested historical erasures and silences. As Trouillot demonstrates, all history making is about selective acts of remembering and forgetting, and close attention to specific “unthinkable” histories reveals how power infuses the process of history making (1995:29).Continue reading ““When the orthodox went away”: histories of displacement and extermination on the Polish/Belarusian border”