Learning to Ask: Ethics and Practice of Interviews

Interviews are one of the most powerful techniques in our research toolkit. When done properly, they can bring us closer to our interlocutors, revealing the internal life of others, and illuminating struggles, hopes, and aspirations that shape our living world. Interviews offer an invaluable window into how we think, act, and feel. Yet, this very power means that interviews must be done with care, and that a consideration of ethics must be at the center of the ways we approach our qualitative research. This wintersession will offer a workshop on interview ethics techniques. We will consider how to do interviews ethically and productively -- while also making them interesting and fun!

Meet the facilitator:
Sebastián Ramírez received a BA from Queens College CUNY in Anthropology and Psychology and a PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University. His research among internally displaced persons in his native Colombia explores the role of healthcare services in efforts to remake ideas of home and citizenship in the aftermath of violence. His dissertation elucidates how official networks of aid and restitution for victims of the war are remade in the everyday efforts of the uprooted to claim their rights and remake their lives. He is starting a second project that investigates how survivors of social cleansing campaigns forge mental health support networks through artistic projects that commemorate the loss of family and friends.

What to Expect:
Mini workshop (90 mins total)

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Co-hosted with: Pace Center for Civic Engagement

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