News & Events
Seminar Thinking through (dis)ability on 29 September 2021
In understanding diversity from an intersectional approach, disability is one angle that is increasingly recognized and deserves our attention. In this seminar, we will discuss and challenge the rhetoric of naturalness, and ask how boundaries between normal and abnormal, abled and disabled are being defined and contested.
Affective societies, affected scientists! 5 Questions to Annemarie Samuels on the FU Berlin blog
The FU Berlin Affective Societies Blog interview series ‘Affective societies, affected scientists’ poses questions concerning the role of affects and emotions in research practice and contemporary society to researchers on short-term visit and associate members of the Collaborative Research Center “Affective Societies”. In this edition Annemarie Samuels talks about the ERC-project, emotions, books, barriers and sentiments.
Call for Participation online workshop Interrogating Speculative Futures – Leiden University
Call for Participation for the online workshop Interrogating Speculative Futures: A workshop on the politics of imagining a future with(out) chronic illness on 19 and 20 July 2021.
7 june Online Book Talk ‘The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir’
Dr. Saiba Varma (University of California, San Diego) will introduce her new book The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir (Duke University Press 2020) on Monday 7 June. This event is co-organized by the Leiden Institute of Area Studies, and the Asia Research Cluster and ERC Globalizing Palliative Care project at the Leiden University Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.
21 May Online Book Talk ‘Silence and Sacrifice’ by Dr. Merav Shohet
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.
Natashe Lemos Dekker wins first Interdem Academy Publication Award with her article Anticipating an Unwanted Future
Natashe Lemos Dekker is the winner of the first Interdem Academy Publication Award. The article Anticipating an Unwanted Future: Euthanasia