Book Pre­sen­tata­tion: „Imag­is­tic Care: Grow­ing Old in a Pre­car­i­ous World”

Webi­nar series Unfold­ing Fini­tudes: Cur­rent Ethno­gra­phies of Aging, Dying and End-of-Life Care
Tues­day 20 May 2025, 17.00–18.30 CEST

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2025/05/imagistic-care-growing-old-in-a-precarious-world

This ses­sion will focus on the edit­ed vol­ume Imag­is­tic Care: Grow­ing Old in a Pre­car­i­ous World (Ford­ham Uni­ver­si­ty Press), and we have the great plea­sure of hav­ing both edi­tors, Prof. Cheryl Mat­ting­ly (Uni­ver­si­ty of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia) and Prof. Lone Grøn (VIVE – The Dan­ish Cen­ter for Social Sci­ence Research), as well as three of the con­tribut­ing authors, Dr. Har­man­deep Kaur Gill (Uni­ver­si­ty of Copen­hagen), Dr. Maria Louw (Aarhus Uni­ver­si­ty), and Prof. Lotte Mein­ert (Aarhus Uni­ver­si­ty), present for this talk.

Reg­is­tra­tion: Please reg­is­ter here for this webi­nar: https://fd24.formdesk.com/universiteitleiden/ImagisticCare. You will then receive the zoom-link for the webi­nar one week in advance.

About the book

Imag­is­tic Care explores ethno­graph­i­cal­ly how images func­tion in our con­cepts, our writ­ing, our field­work, and our lives. With con­tri­bu­tions from anthro­pol­o­gists, philoso­phers and an artist, the vol­ume asks: How can imag­is­tic inquiries help us under­stand the com­plex entan­gle­ments of self and oth­er, depen­dence and inde­pen­den­cy, frailty and charis­ma, notions of good and bad aging, and norms and prac­tices of care in old age? And how can imag­is­tic inquiries offer grounds for critique?
Cut­ting between ethnog­ra­phy, phe­nom­e­nol­o­gy and art, this vol­ume offers a pow­er­ful con­tri­bu­tion to under­stand­ings of grow­ing old. The images cre­at­ed in words and draw­ings are used to com­pli­cate rather than sim­pli­fy the world. The con­trib­u­tors advance an under­stand­ing of care, and of aging itself, marked by alter­i­ty, spec­tral pres­ences and uncertainty.

About Unfold­ing Finitudes

The Euro­pean Research Coun­cil-fund­ed Glob­al­iz­ing Pal­lia­tive Care project (www.globalizingpalliativecare.com) at Lei­den Uni­ver­si­ty is host­ing a three-month­ly webi­nar series that high­lights cur­rent anthro­po­log­i­cal research on care, aging and dying. Dur­ing this series, invit­ed speak­ers present their recent or ongo­ing ethno­graph­ic work in this field. Our aim is to cre­ate a plat­form for dis­cus­sion of nov­el anthro­po­log­i­cal per­spec­tives on unfold­ing fini­tudes at the end of life.

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Dis­abil­i­ty & Cli­mate: In Con­ver­sa­tion with Angela Frederick
20th May 2025

In Sep­tem­ber 2023, we launched an online ‘Dis­abil­i­ty & Cli­mate: In con­ver­sa­tion with…’ series for peo­ple that are inter­est­ed in reflect­ing on and/or shar­ing expe­ri­ences around dis­abil­i­ty and the cli­mate cri­sis. This is part of the Sens­ing Cli­mate project, led by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Exeter. You can read more about the project and tune into past events online: https://sensing-climate.com/events

Join us on Tues­day 20th May 2025, 7–8.30pm BST (12–1.30pm Cen­tral Time) for a con­ver­sa­tion with Angela Fred­er­ick, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Soci­ol­o­gy at The Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at El Paso. Angela is author of the forth­com­ing book, ‘Dis­abled Pow­er: A Storm, A Grid, and Embod­ied Harm in the Age of Dis­as­ter’. Dur­ing our ses­sion, Angela will dis­cuss and share find­ings from the book, draw­ing on inter­views she con­duct­ed with 57 Texas res­i­dents with dis­abil­i­ties and parental care­givers who endured the 2021 Texas pow­er cri­sis. She will reflect on how dis­abil­i­ty vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty was pro­duced in the storm through a pol­i­cy process that ‘dis­abled’ vital infra­struc­ture, includ­ing pow­er, water, and emer­gency ser­vices, while also dis­cussing the impor­tance of „dis­abled pow­er”; the indi­vid­ual and col­lec­tive resilience that dis­abled Tex­ans exer­cised to sur­vive the dis­as­ter. Read more about the ses­sion online: https://sensing-climate.com/events/angela-frederick Access the sign up form online: https://forms.office.com/e/fiPgXuGmaZ

If the sign-up forms are not acces­si­ble to you, please do email (Sarah.Bell@exeter.ac.uk) to share your inter­ests in join­ing instead. We will then send round a Zoom sign-in link about a week before each event.

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Freiburg­er Filmforum
27.5–1.6.2025

Dear Film Enthu­si­asts, get your cal­en­dars out and look for­ward to a fes­ti­val week filled with high-qual­i­ty films, engag­ing exchanges, and fes­ti­val atmos­phere! From May 27 to June 1, 2025, the Freiburg­er Film­fo­rum Fes­ti­val of Tran­scul­tur­al Cin­e­ma [1] will take place at the Kom­mu­nales Kino Freiburg. With numer­ous guests
and an exten­sive accom­pa­ny­ing pro­gram, we are cel­e­brat­ing a dou­ble anniver­sary: 40 years of the Film­fo­rum and the 10th anniver­sary of our Stu­dents’ Platform.

The fes­ti­val address­es both con­tem­po­rary and his­tor­i­cal, socio-polit­i­cal and cul­tur­al top­ics, aim­ing to inspire aes­thet­ic and the­o­ret­i­cal engage­ment with diver­si­ty and cul­tur­al dif­fer­ence. At the heart of the fes­ti­val are in-depth film dis­cus­sions between the audi­ence and the film­mak­ers or protagonists.

Young per­spec­tives shape the Stu­dents’ Plat­form. The over­whelm­ing response to the Call for Entries promis­es a rich pro­gram that is right on the pulse of the times. With the focus „Resound­ing Resis­tance,” the fes­ti­val will par­tic­u­lar­ly hon­or works that have emerged under the com­plex con­di­tions of threat, vio­lence, and displacement.

The Ate­liers Varan [2], co-ini­ti­at­ed by Jean Rouch in Paris, have been orga­niz­ing doc­u­men­tary film work­shops world­wide since the ear­ly 1980s. In the main pro­gram, the Film­fo­rum will present a char­ac­ter­is­tic selec­tion of films pro­duced in the „Ate­liers” ? simul­ta­ne­ous­ly in Freiburg and at the Tashkent Film School [3] in Uzbekistan.

For all ear­ly birds, there is a dis­count­ed tick­et avail­able for ?55 [4] until mid-Feb­ru­ary! You can find infor­ma­tion regard­ing accom­mo­da­tions, trav­el, and tick­ets on our web­site under „Ser­vice”. We are hap­py to assist excur­sion groups in find­ing a place to sleep (mail to students@freiburger-filmforum.de). Stay updat­ed on Insta­gram [5] and
Face­book [6].

Let’s make the cin­e­ma a vibrant place of encounter and exchange. We look for­ward to see­ing you!

[1] https://www.freiburger-filmforum.de/en/home/
[2] https://www.ateliersvaran.com/en
[3] https://www.instagram.com/tashkentfilmschool/?hl=de
[4] https://www.freiburger-filmforum.de/en/service/tickets/
[5] https://www.instagram.com/freiburgerfilmforum/
[6] https://www.facebook.com/freiburgerfilmforum

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