Prof. Mark-Anthony Falzon will give a paper entitled Cherchez l’oiseau: Birds, hunting and landscape in Malta on Wednesday from 6 to 7 pm in the Faculty of Arts Library as part of the Works in Progress in the Social Studies seminar series.

Prof. Falzon’s paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork in Malta during the past four years to look at birds, and in particular hunting figure, as an implicit part of the Maltese landscape. The themes explored include hunting as a means of relating to a multi-sensory landscape, the trouble with biophilia, transformations of the landscape for hunting and/or trapping, the contestation and moral evaluation of transformed places, and the Maltese countryside as a site of surveillance and counter-surveillance tactics.

Prof. Falzon holds a doctorate in social anthropology from Cambridge University and is the head of the University of Malta’s Department of Sociology.

Students and the public are invited to attend.