Professor Peter Loizos visits BSix
BSix kicked off this year's Anthropology 'Raising Aspirations' programme in style recently with a guest lecture delivered by Professor Emeritus Peter Loizos of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Peter taught Anthropology at the LSE from 1969 to 2002 and is particularly concerned with the anthropology of Mediterranean societies, particularly of Cyprus. He has been conducting fieldwork since 2000 on a group of Greek Cypriots first studied in 1968. They became refugees in 1974, and are the subjects of several monographs, two documentary films and a book of photographs.
His current interest is in how these people have coped with dislocation and political uncertainty over a thirty year period, with particular reference to their livelihoods, political and social relations, and health in both narrow and broader senses.
Peter shared insights with BSix students about his field work and in particular his feelings about studying a society linked to his own heritage which evoked many emotions which made it difficult for him to objectively fulfil his anthropological reasons for observing the refugees in the first place.
Peter was extremely generous with his time and knowledge and enjoyed a lively Q&A session with the A-Level students after his lecture which was positively received by the group.
"We'd like to thank Peter so much for coming to BSix and helping us to understand how a true anthropologist carries out research in the field" said one student.
Peter continues to be a dear friend of the college and will be returning in the future to conduct one-to-one tutorials with some of our A'Level anthropology group.
Peter is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Crisis States Programme, Development Studies Institute, LSE, and Professor of Sociology in Intercollege, Nicosia.
For more information about the series please email ipower@bsix.ac.uk
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