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Tuesday | 05:15 PM | 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. Streaming / Video URL https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89558407938?pwd=cEl3UUdFdXlJa2V1SXhvQU9HcGhuUT09 Homepage Event https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ethno/mahassa/index.php?language=de&page=medicalAntWorkGroup Organizer Südasien-Institut, Abteilung Ethnologie Homepage Organizer https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ethno/index.php?language=de&page=home Contact 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. Tuesday 08th November 2022, 05:15 PM Dr. Ananda Samir Chopra, Ayurveda-Klinik, Habichtswald-Klinik, Kassel Tuesday 20th December 2022, 05:15 PM Global Health Interventions: From Design to Causal Impact Prof. Dr. Dr. Till Bärnighausen, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health Tuesday 17th January 2023, 05:15 PM 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 Tuesday 31st January 2023, 05:15 PM 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 Tuesday 14th February 2023, 05:15 PM 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 |