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Unfolding Finitudes: Current Ethnographies of Aging, Dying and End-of-Life Care 

Datum
07. Dezem­ber 2021 

Online webi­nar series Unfold­ing Fini­tudes: Cur­rent Ethno­gra­phies of Aging, Dying and End-of-Life Care on Decem­ber 7, 2021 15.30–17.00 CET.


You are cor­dial­ly invit­ed to attend the next talk in the online webi­nar series Unfold­ing Fini­tudes: Cur­rent Ethno­gra­phies of Aging, Dying and End-of-Life Care on Decem­ber 7, 2021 15.30–17.00 CET.

 We are very hap­py to announce that in this webi­nar Dr. Dwai­payan Baner­jee (MIT) will talk about his recent book Endur­ing Can­cer: Life, Death and Diag­no­sis in Del­hi (Duke Uni­ver­si­ty Press 2020). Sha­jeela Shawkat MSc will act as dis­cus­sant for the talk. 
 
Reg­is­tra­tion: If you would like to join the webi­nar, please reg­is­ter here. You will then receive the zoom-link for the webi­nar one day in advance. 

 

 About the book

Endur­ing Can­cer: Life, Death and Diag­no­sis in Del­hi is an ethnog­ra­phy of can­cer in India. Endur­ing Can­cer presents the efforts of the urban poor in Del­hi to carve out a liv­able life with can­cer, as they nego­ti­ate an over-extend­ed health sys­tem strug­gling to respond to the dis­ease. Through ethno­graph­ic field­work, archival research and analy­ses of cul­tur­al texts, Dwai­payan Baner­jee describes how can­cer shapes and is shaped by such local social worlds.

 
About Dwai­payan Banerjee

Dwai­payan Baner­jee is an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Sci­ence, Tech­nol­o­gy, and Soci­ety (STS) at the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy (MIT). He has a doc­tor­ate in cul­tur­al anthro­pol­o­gy at NYU and has been a Mel­lon Post­doc­tor­al Fel­low at Dart­mouth Col­lege. He also holds an M.Phil and an MA in soci­ol­o­gy from the Del­hi School of Economics. 

 

About Unfold­ing Finitudes

The Euro­pean Research Coun­cil-fund­ed Glob­al­iz­ing Pal­lia­tive Care project 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.

We hope to see you in the webinar!