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Seeing and Not Seeing<\/strong> is a post-disciplinary faculty seminar and public lecture series that brings guests from a range of disciplines and institutions to speak to the project\u2019s core sensibility of simultaneity, multiplicity, and holding. It is sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities and the Global Development Policy Center with support from the Center for Latin American Studies.<\/p>\n

Seeing and Not Seeing examines how thinking may change as the result of taking into account multiple ways of seeing simultaneously.<\/p>\n

The project begins from the conviction that conventional ways of seeing the world and generating social science knowledge, rooted in \u201cscientific\u201d methods of defining categories, marshaling evidence and proving arguments, prevent the openness and holding of multiplicity needed to live and act ethically with knowledge that is incomplete and uncertain.<\/p>\n

By \u201cnot seeing,\u201d what is meant is looking squarely at\u2014but also beyond and through\u2014the big things people habitually and are primed to see, such as democratic procedures, movements, viruses, or borders. Instead of delineating coherence and boundaries, a seeing and not seeing sensibility works to both \u201csee\u201d and \u201cnot see\u201d these phenomena, so as to identify the multiple processes, forces, and representations that occur in and around them, out of which they are constituted and amidst which they coexist. The forms of analysis generated by this approach do not seek to make fully visible a reality that already exists, but rather to provide a field guide for new forms of interpretation and action. The seeing and not seeing sensibility interrogates the relations among author, material world and representation, theorizing openness through the tensions among them.<\/p>\n

Seeing and Not Seeing believes a new social science sensibility is needed, one that is shaped by the humanities, does not envision clear borders among political actors and social forces, but rather discerns and holds multiplicity. Such holding is needed to grapple with the human-and-non-human entanglements of a post-COVID-19 world, as well as envisage actionable spaces for change.<\/p>\n

The faculty seminar has been meeting since Fall 2016 and encourages collaboration among distinct constituencies within the academy, showing how post-disciplinary discussions can bridge both methodological and institutional divides and creating new intellectual communities in the process. The seminar includes scholars of history, anthropology, ethnomusicology, art history, geography, romance studies, political science, sociology and American studies.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contact Information:<\/p>\n

Jeffrey W. Rubin
\nDirector, Seeing and Not Seeing Faculty Seminar
\nAssociate Professor of History, Boston University
\njwr@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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