Women's Research and Resource Center

Domestic Intelligence: Armenian Matrilineal Rituals of Tasseography as Subversive Forms of Knowledge Production

Thursday, March 16, 2017 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:
Pasadena Room, USU
Cost:
Free

Professor Carina Karapetin Giorgi is currently a faculty member from the Department of Sociology at Pomona College. Her work largely examines Armenian history and culture from a queer, feminist, Middle Eastern perspective.

Carina Karapetian Giorgi flyer

Productions of "Domestic Intelligence" uses queer and feminist frameworks (in the context of time travel) to examine the ways in which Armenian women bend space and time in places of domesticity which create sessions as an ongoing source of knowledge building, bonding, and discover - seeking to further explore how Armenian women strategically deploy and exchange information, dreams, desires and secrets with one another, while disrupting heteropatriarchal culture.