Colloquium Series “Global Aging” with Andrea Muehlebach

"Voluntary work and the emergence of ethical citizenship: A case study on elderly care in Northern Italy"

Andrea Muehlebach is Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on the interesection of economic, political, and ethical life. Therefore, she explores the rise of voluntarism in social service provisioning in the Northern Italian region of Lombardy, and will continue to pursue it in a new project on the European “commons” movement in Italy, Germany, and France.

During the spring semester 2014, the Institute for European Global Studies organizes a 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.

If you are interested in visiting the events of the colloquium series, please register at europa@clutterunibas.ch.

The full program of the colloquium series is available for download:

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