21 May Online Book Talk ‘Silence and Sacrifice’ by Dr. Merav Shohet

Together with the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD), the Max Planck Institute for the study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University and the Asia Research Cluster the ERC Globalizing Palliative Care Project organizes an Online Book Talk with Dr. Merav Shohet to discuss her latest book ‘Silence and Sacrifice’. Prof. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler (FU Berlin) will act as discussant. 

Dr. Merav Shohet (Boston University) will discuss her new book: Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam (University of California Press, April 2021) during the next online Book Talk on Friday 21 May 2021. This engaging ethnographic monograph makes a powerful contribution to psychological, medical and linguistic anthropology and Vietnam studies. 

Date, time and registration

Date: Friday, 21 May 2021

Time: 12.00-13.30 CET

Where: Online, the zoom-link will be sent to registered participants one day in advance

Registration: attendance is free of charge, but please register here.

More information about the book and the event can be found here on the event page of the Leiden University.