Department seminar: Harry Izmirlian
The Department of Social Anthropology is happy to announce the upcoming seminar with Professor Emeritus Harry Izmirlian (Ball State University). The title of the lecture is "The Doors of Perception: Systems of Knowledge as "Universializations of Human Experience".
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Seminar paper
The impact of my own personal subjectivity, as a derivative of my own fieldwork in India, introduced me to an exploration of subjectivity in constituting the collective narratives that run from myth to Nietzsche. That exploration manifested itself as a continual incremental experience with my own personal life, particular my exposure to movies. I hope that I can engage the audience in sharing that journey.
About the lecturer
Professor Emeritus Harry Izmirlian did his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley (1964). He has since then been a Faculty Member and former head of the Department of Anthropology, Ball State University (1972-1987). Izmirlian has following his retirement, worked among others as a Faculty Member and professor at the University of Armenia (1994-1995), the Hebei University, Boading China (2003-2004) and the United International College, Zhuhai, China (2008-2009).
His field research has mainly been Punjab India and his research interests include Philosophical Anthropology, Western and Asian Systems of Knowledge, Psychological Theory, Life History, Communications Systems, Asian Societies, Evolution of Consciousness.
Izmirlian is currently working on a book manuscript titled "Knowlege Systems as Universializations of Human Experience".