U P C O M I N G E V E N T S
“Predatory Compassion: The Politics of Humanitarianism Beyond the Human”
A LECTURE BY MIRIAM TICKTIN
2 March 2012 | 2-4 PM
Asian American Cultural Center
1210 W. Nevada St. Urbana, IL
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This talk will examine the expansion of the politics of suffering and health to include animals and plants, and focuses on the accompanying scientific, medical and political technologies that help to shape this emerging community. How have the boundaries of “humanity,” as an affective community, changed: who or what is included and excluded and on what grounds?
Miriam Ticktin is assistant professor of anthropology at the New School of Social Research in New York City, and author of Casualities of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France (University of California Press, 2011). In addition to co-editing In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care (Duke University Press, 2010), she has published widely on the politicalizing and medicalizing of sexual violence, PTSD/trauma and psychiatric humanitarianism, and the anthropology of the human at the intersections of science, medicine, and ethics.
Co-sponsored by: Anthropology, Asian American Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, Human and Community Development, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory
For more information please contact:
Soo Ah Kwon [email protected]
Mimi Nguyen [email protected]
Sarah Cassinelli [email protected]
Fay Hodza [email protected]
A LECTURE BY MIRIAM TICKTIN
2 March 2012 | 2-4 PM
Asian American Cultural Center
1210 W. Nevada St. Urbana, IL
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This talk will examine the expansion of the politics of suffering and health to include animals and plants, and focuses on the accompanying scientific, medical and political technologies that help to shape this emerging community. How have the boundaries of “humanity,” as an affective community, changed: who or what is included and excluded and on what grounds?
Miriam Ticktin is assistant professor of anthropology at the New School of Social Research in New York City, and author of Casualities of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France (University of California Press, 2011). In addition to co-editing In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care (Duke University Press, 2010), she has published widely on the politicalizing and medicalizing of sexual violence, PTSD/trauma and psychiatric humanitarianism, and the anthropology of the human at the intersections of science, medicine, and ethics.
Co-sponsored by: Anthropology, Asian American Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, Human and Community Development, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory
For more information please contact:
Soo Ah Kwon [email protected]
Mimi Nguyen [email protected]
Sarah Cassinelli [email protected]
Fay Hodza [email protected]
P A S T E V E N T S
Writing Against the Master Narrative: Microfinance and Its Discontents
A L E C T U R E B Y L A M I A K A R I M
1 December 2011 | 4-6 PM
Asian American Cultural Center
1210 W. Nevada St.
Urbana, IL
F R E E A N D O P E N T O T H E P U B L I C
Dr. Lamia Karim is associate professor of anthropology and associate director for the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CAPS) at the University of Oregon. Her recently published book Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh was on the 2010 Huffington Post List as one of the most anticipated books of 2011. She is a native of Bangladesh with nearly 15 years of experience in women, development, NGOs and the state. Her expertise in this area has been widely sought by national and international media outlets, including National Public Radio, Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail, among others. Prof. Karim recently finished a National Science Foundation-funded research on women belonging to a transnational Islamic movement known as Tablighi Jama'at. Her current research is on the environment and globalization in the Bay of Bengal. Her research has been funded by two Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowships, the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Guggenheim, and the Fulbright Commission.
Cosponsored by Anthropology, the Asian American Studies Program, Gender and Women’s Studies, Human Development and Family Studies, Women’s Resources Center’s Global Grrls in Focus Series, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
A L E C T U R E B Y L A M I A K A R I M
1 December 2011 | 4-6 PM
Asian American Cultural Center
1210 W. Nevada St.
Urbana, IL
F R E E A N D O P E N T O T H E P U B L I C
Dr. Lamia Karim is associate professor of anthropology and associate director for the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CAPS) at the University of Oregon. Her recently published book Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh was on the 2010 Huffington Post List as one of the most anticipated books of 2011. She is a native of Bangladesh with nearly 15 years of experience in women, development, NGOs and the state. Her expertise in this area has been widely sought by national and international media outlets, including National Public Radio, Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail, among others. Prof. Karim recently finished a National Science Foundation-funded research on women belonging to a transnational Islamic movement known as Tablighi Jama'at. Her current research is on the environment and globalization in the Bay of Bengal. Her research has been funded by two Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowships, the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Guggenheim, and the Fulbright Commission.
Cosponsored by Anthropology, the Asian American Studies Program, Gender and Women’s Studies, Human Development and Family Studies, Women’s Resources Center’s Global Grrls in Focus Series, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.