November 23, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Thursday November 23, 2023
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Online via Zoom
The Diane Wolfe Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Daniela Castellanos Montes, Assistant Professor, ICESI University, Colombia
In this virtual talk, Dr. Daniela Castellanos Montes of ICESI University in Colombia will explore the concept of envy as a relational dynamic between people and clay objects. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork led within a rural community of potters in Andean Colombia, Dr. Castellanos Montes examines emotions in pottery making, focusing on the entanglement between humans and materials. By studying the lifeworld of Elí, a prominent craftsman from Aguabuena, she explores the envy of pots as a force emerging through the social life of clay.
About the Speaker
Dr. Daniela Castellanos Montesis
Dr. Daniela Castellanos Montesis an assistant professor in the department of Social Studies in ICESI University (Colombia). She has conducted long-term fieldwork among the Aguabuena pottery community in Colombia, combining ethnographical and archaeological methods. Her research on pottery making focuses on the interconnectedness of humans and materials, affects, and the discarded as both material and analytical lenses into the lifeworlds of rural potter communities.