Workshop convener:

Maya El Helou is a Ph.D. candidate at the sociocultural anthropology in a collaborative program with Women and Gender studies at the University of Toronto. El Helou is illustrating her way through ethnographic fieldwork. Her theoretical interests revolve around Necropolitics, Queer Theory, embodiment, temporality, and spatiality along with urban infrastructure. El Helou is the convener for “Entertaining the graphic in the ethnographic” with the aim to bring together all those who are interested in thinking through the salient forms of artistic expression.