Dienstag
14
FEB

17.15 Uhr

De-Duplicating the Subject of Care: Biometrics and their Discontents in India (ONLINE ONLY)

Lawrence Cohen, Professor of Anthropology and of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Biometrics emerged, over the decades of the 1990s and 2000s, as a key figure for and actant of national security, in India, as the latter was variably imagined under shifting senses of economic and political futures. One key site where biometric governance came to matter, in both biometrics' utopian promise and its dystopian threat, was in a new managerialism for health and welfare. Begin with the reimagination of drug resistant tuberculosis by computer scientists, this talk turns to a series of ethnographically rendered sites of contestation over the biometric future, and concludes with discussion of debates across transgender (kinnar, hijra, aravani) and NGO networks over gender and the forms of death that biometrics offer.

Dr. Lawrence Cohen is Professor in Anthropology and South and Southeast Asian Studies and the co-director of the Medical Anthropology Program at UC Berkeley. His research in South Asia has included work on aging, postcoloniality, and rhetorics of family decline; on Ayurveda and its contemporary transformations; on the popular folklore of Ganesh; on AIDS prevention and the emergence of kothi identities; and family planning and transplantation as surgical models of subject formation.

Streaming / Video URL

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89558407938?pwd=cEl3UUdFdXlJa2V1SXhvQU9HcGhuUT09

Homepage Veranstaltung

https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ethno/mahassa/index.php?language=de&page=medicalAntWorkGroup

Veranstalter

Südasien-Institut, Abteilung Ethnologie

Homepage Veranstalter

https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ethno/index.php?language=de&page=home

Kontakt

Lin Nagels

Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Medical Anthropology Forum - Wintersemester 2022/23':

The forum as a public event was designed to be a space where senior students and researchers could gather with MAHASSA students and other interested parties to discover and discuss current themes in medical anthropology. Medical anthropology raises important intellectual and scientific questions about human suffering and wellbeing, and about the human body in its relation to culture and society. This is a “survey course,” meaning that we will survey the most important topics in this field, including illness and suffering, ethnomedicine, ritual healing, the anthropology of the body, mental health and culture, medical pluralism and hegemony, critical medical anthropology, science technology and medicine studies, and others.

Please note that individual talks are offered in person (or possibly in a hybrid format), while others are offered online only.

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Dr. Ananda Samir Chopra, Ayurveda-Klinik, Habichtswald-Klinik, Kassel

Dienstag, 20. Dezember 2022, 17.15 Uhr

Global Health Interventions: From Design to Causal Impact

Prof. Dr. Dr. Till Bärnighausen, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health

Dienstag, 17. Januar 2023, 17.15 Uhr

Achieving Health Equity in Nagaland, India: Collaboratively Paving a Way Forward

Dr. Rhondemo A. Kikon, Humboldt Fellow (German Chancellor Fellowship Programme), Heidelberg Institute of Public Health

Dienstag, 31. Januar 2023, 17.15 Uhr

Emotional Labour in Sri Lanka's Transitional Justice Process (ONLINE ONLY)

Dr. Eva Ambos, Visiting Scholar, University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka) and Research Scholar, University of Tübingen & Ananda Galappatti, Independent Researcher

Dienstag, 14. Februar 2023, 17.15 Uhr

De-Duplicating the Subject of Care: Biometrics and their Discontents in India (ONLINE ONLY)

Lawrence Cohen, Professor of Anthropology and of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley