Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth

ASA10: The Interview - theory, practice, society

Queen's University, Belfast, 13/04/2010 – 16/04/2010

Plenaries

 Plen1 Interview and society

 Applied social policy and the qualitative interview – still ‘the poor cousin’?

 The social life of interview material

 The interview, voice and text

 Plen2 The interview: form, translation and transformation

 The interview as a form: dialectical, focussed, ambiguous, special

 Scale, translation, and measure in the interview

 Interviewing in time

 Plen3 Interview negotiations

 ‘Finding the talk’: negotiating knowledge and knowledge transfer in the field

 On reactionary reflexivity

 Victims of political violence and the importance of interviews: some methodological reflections

 Plen4 Imagination, inspiration and the interview

 Not being there: interviews and the anthropological imagination

 Instances of inspiration: interviewing dancers and writers

 Dream dialogues: interviewing the ‘other’ within

 The interview and new challenges in teaching and learning anthropology