Workshop with Lawrence Cohen

Global Aging

Registration:
If you are interested in participating in the workshop on Global Aging, please contact Dr. Roger Begrich (roger.begrich(at)unibas.ch).

Program:
12:15 – 13:00
Welcome & Lunch

13:00 – 14:00
"Hamīlāi ānandāshram cāhincha, bṛddhāshram cāhindaina!" - Social engagement of senior citizens in a mixed neighbourhood of Kathmandu, Nepal
Roberta Mandoki
Project B19 „Ageing in a transcultural context”, Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe", Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Heidelberg

14:00 – 15:00
Old age, care and new media in Tansania
Jana Gerold
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel

15:00 – 15:30
Coffee/tea break

15:30 – 16:30
'Ageing, Agency and Health: Older Peoples' Perspectives in the City of Zanzibar, Tanzania'
Sandra Staudacher Preite
SNSF project "Ageing, Agency and Health in Urbanizing Tanzania", Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel

16:30 – 17:30
Old age – Home?: New Perspectives on and Representations of Ageing in Urban India
Annika Mayer
Project B19 „Ageing in a transcultural context”, Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe", Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Heidelberg

17:30 – 17:45
Open Discussion

18:15 – 20:00
Keynote lecture by Lawrence Cohen (UC Berkeley):
De-Duplicating Old Age: On the Resistance of the Old Body to Neoliberal Governance in India

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