Talks, presentations, and panels

Author

Carwil Bjork-James

Recent Talks

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2026

  • “Blockades Stronger than Bullets: The Continuing Power of Street Protest in a Changing Bolivia.” Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois, April 2026).
  • “What Remains of Bolivia’s Grassroots Revolution?.” University of Mississippi (Oxford, Mississippi, March 2026).

2025

  • Panelist, “Bearing ‘Freedom’ in Dark Times.” AAA Annual Meeting (New Orleans, November 2025).
  • Panelist, “Empire and Its Haunts.” AAA Annual Meeting (New Orleans, November 2025).
  • “Open Data for Public Memory: Building a Digital Archive of Bolivian Political Violence.” Public Anthropology Conference (Washington, November 2025).
  • “Contributing to Wikimedia during an Open Data Human Rights Project.” Wiki Conference North America (New York City, October 2025).
  • “Unarmed Militancy: Tactics and Subjectivity in Recent Disruptive Protest.” Department of Psychology, Sigmund Freud University (Berlin, June 2025).
  • “Mapping Political Violence in Bolivia: The Ultimate Consequences Digital Archive.” Mobilization Annual Conference (San Diego, June 2025).
  • “Direct Action, Syndicalism, and the Right to Strike.” Direct Action and Democracy: Histories and Transformations (Bochum, Germany, June 2025).
  • “Mapping Political Violence in Bolivia: The Ultimate Consequences Digital Archive.” AAG Annual Conference (virtual, March 2025).
  • “‘It Has Cost Us Blood’: How Bolivian Movements Characterize Death in Protest.” SLACA Biannual Conference (Panama City, Panama, March 2025). co-authored with Emma Banks.

2024

  • “Open Knowledge as Pedagogical Praxis: How Faculty and Students are Opening up the Field of Anthropology by Improving Wikipedia.” AAA Annual Meeting (Tampa, November 2024).
  • “Generative AI and Wikipedia: A Discussion.” WikiConference North America (Columbus, October 2024).

2023

  • “The Sovereign Street: How Bolivian Protesters Carried out a Revolution.” San Francisco State University (San Francisco, CA, September 2023).
  • “Turns Toward and Away from Violent Repression in Democratic Bolivia.” Violent Turns: Sources, Interpretations, Responses (Paris, June 2023).

Invocation

A quote engraved in white text on nearly black marble:  '… AND O MY PEOPLE, OUT YONDER, HEAR ME, THEY DO NOT LOVE YOUR NECK UNNOOSED AND STRAIGHT. SO LOVE YOUR NECK; PUT A HAND ON IT, GRACE IT, STROKE IT AND HOLD IT UP. AND ALL YOUR INSIDE PART'S THAT THEY'D JUST AS SOON SLOP FOR HOGS YOU GOT TO LOVE THEM. THE DARK, DARK LIVER - LOVE IT, LOVE IT, AND THE BEAT AND BEATING HEART, LOVE THAT TOO. MORE THAN EYES OR FEET. MORE THAN LUNGS THAT HAVE YET TO DRAW FREE AIR. MORE THAN YOUR LIFE-HOLDING WOMB AND YOUR LIFE-GIVING PRIVATE PARTS, HEAR ME NOW, LOVE YOUR HEART. FOR THIS IS THE PRIZE.' - Toni Morrison