Memoir and the Appeal - Incite at Columbia University
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Event
Memoir and the Appeal
Thursday May 2, 20244:00pm - Part of Series Narrative Workshop
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Event venue
61 Claremont Avenue
Suite 1300
New York
As part of the Narrative Workshop, Dian Sheng and Amy Weissenbach joins us from the Sociology department at Columbia University to discuss "Memoir and the Appeal".
The Narrative Workshop has limited capacity. To inquire about joining, please contact Dian Sheng or Amy Weissenbach.
About Dian Sheng
Dian Sheng is a PhD student in the Columbia Department of Sociology, a Doctoral Fellow at Incite, and a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. She holds a BA in Social Sciences from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her interests in the production of knowledge, higher education, migration, and how structural constellations flow into the genesis of individual and group narratives about personal interests and strategies.
Dian is co-organizer (with Amy Weissenbach) of the Narrative Workshop at Incite.
About Amy Weissenbach
Amy Weissenbach is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Columbia interested in narrative, sociology of knowledge, and inequality. She holds an MPhil in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine from University of Cambridge, and a BA with honors in English Literature from Stanford University. With collaborators Peter Bearman and Armin Pournaki, she is currently analyzing roughly 10,000 letters written to Warren Buffett and his sister, Doris Buffett, between 2006 and 2016, from people around the U.S. seeking aid. The Buffett letters project uses a combination of computational methods and close reading to characterize the theories writers offer about how crises have arisen in their lives and what they need to get back on their feet.
Amy is co-organizer (with Dian Sheng) of the Narrative Workshop at Incite.
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