MIA Town Hall 11 - Anthropology and Open Dialogue
Channel: HOPEnDialogue project
Date: 2021-07-16

The HOPEnDialogue project, Open Excellence and Mad in
America invite you to explore the challenges and opportunities
of responding to crisis ‘dialogically’.

History might be seen as efforts to resolve tensions between our simultaneously individual and collective existence. Anthropology allows us to reflect on our subjectivity in dialogue with others. Though we live with independent perspectives, in important ways we are inextricable from the families, communities, and nations in which we live. Wars and other madness might be seen as arising in the tensions between the two. Healthy communities and families have found ways to resolve these tensions through dialogue of some kind. What do anthropologists see about how
“Open Dialogue”, as practiced in Western Lapland, fits into this ancient history? What can we learn about the success and failure of dialogue in human history?

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Panelists
Kiara Wickremasinghe, David Mosse, Lauren Cubellis, Mark Hopfenbeck, Enric Torrents.

Hosts
Kermit Cole and Louisa Putnam

Chat moderator
Cathy Thorley

Reflecting team
Sabine & Werner Schutze, Aanund Brottveit