Speakers
- Leniqueca Welcome
- University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. Candidate
Leniqueca Welcome is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn). She is a member of the Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts (CAMRA)—an interdisciplinary collective committed to participatory experimental media-making. She is also a student affiliate of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at UPenn. Prior to starting her PhD program, she was trained as an architect and practiced architecture in Trinidad and Tobago. As a designer and researcher, she is most broadly interested in issues related to securitization, racialization, space, visuality and sovereignty in the Caribbean. Her fieldwork is conducted in Trinidad and her research methods combine participant-observation, spatial analysis, mapping, archival research, and collaborative photography.