Hale Ergin
Introduction
Hale Ergin is a Turkish researcher and Master’s candidate in Social Science (Ethnicity and Development) at Chiang Mai University, supported by the Chiang Mai University Presidential Scholarship. Her current ethnographic research explores Pga K'nyau (Karen) knowledge practices and ecological semiotics in Northern Thailand, focusing on forest spaces as relational worlds. This work directly examines how space, ecology, and social relations intersect through situated, community-based knowledge. Hale holds a B.A. in Psychology from Istanbul University and is certified in human subjects research through the CITI Program.
Related Engagement
Workshops
Monsoon School #1 - Open Studios
Select components of Monsoon School #1 are open to the public through a series of Open Studios. Come and hear what questions, methods and conditions of site and practice are crucial to the work of our co-facilitators, namely NOIR ROW ART SPACE, LIR, field-0, Exutoire and its Open Call participants!
Opportunity
Open Call: Monsoon School #1 - Site as Method
Monsoon School #1 accepts 10 participants from Thailand and across Southeast Asia, to take part in facilitated activities examining how space is socially produced, investigating site as a reflection on situatedness, subjectivity, and collective forms of practice.