Chrisyl Wong-Hang-Sun
21st November 2025, 1.30pm - 3.30pm
Chrisyl Wong-Hang-Sun
About:
Chrisyl Wong-Hang-Sun is a PhD researcher in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh (UoE), researching coconut plantations in the dependent islands of Mauritius, with support from an AHRC scholarship from the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities. She is also a fellow of the Stuart Hall Foundation. Her research interests include plantation labour, human/nonhuman relations, multispecies and poetic research methods, and the ethnography of the Republic of Mauritius and its dependent islands. As a budding writer, Chrisyl's work appears in the edited volume, 'Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago’, The Dawntreader, and the Journal of Museum Ethnography.
Session information:
Chrisyl presented a talk on how she has used and will continue to use poetry and poetic research methods to supplement her ethnographic research and writing. Drawing on the work of feminist philosopher Allison M Jaggar, intersectional feminist writer and poet Audre Lorde, and historian Saidiya Hartman, Chrisyl examined knowledge cultivation through the interplay of research, imagination, and emotions. After the talk, Chrisyl led a workshop on ethnographic noticing and sensing, encouraging guests to begin creative writing with these approaches.
