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Colloquium on Aging and Social (In)Security in India
On April 16, 2014, Prof. Willemijn de Jong spoke on “’Global Aging: Aging and social (in)security in Kerala, India”. The talk is part of the Colloquium Series “Global Aging”.
Prof. Willemijn de Jong is Associate Professor at the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zürich. In her research and her publications she deals with migration and intercultural communication in Switzerland, work, marriage, gender and textile material culture as well as rituals and sociopolitical transformations in Flores, Eastern Indonesia, social security and old age in Kerala, South India, and on reproductive technologies and kinship in Switzerland and Euro-American contexts.
During the spring semester 2014, the Institute for European Global Studies organizes the colloquium series on the topic of “Global Aging”. During those interdisciplinary research colloquia, scholars of the Institute and other institutions present their research to the scientific community. The colloquia take place on a Wednesday from 12:30 to 2:00 pm at the seminar room of the institute.
If you are interested in participating in the events of the colloquium series, please register by sending an e-mail to europa@clutterunibas.ch.
The full program of the colloquium series is available for download: