El grup identi.cat fa una sessió oberta en ocasió de la visita de la professora Bonnie McElhinny, del Departament d’Antropologia i de l’Institut d’Estudis de Gènere i de la Dona de la Universitat de Toronto, on és també membre del South East Asia Group. “The Audacity of Affect: Gender, Race and History in Linguistic Accounts of Legitimacy and Belonging” és el títol de la conferència, centrada en un repàs historic i crític de la recerca sobre “afecte”.

El seminari serà el proper dimarts 29 de març a les 12:30 a la sala Jordi Pujol, (Seu de la UOC a Tibidabo 39).  Preguem que els interessats confirmeu la vostra assistència.

Bonnie McElhinny (Ph.D. 1993, Stanford University) is an associate professor in anthropology and women and gender studies who works on issues linked to gender, the Philippines and the Filipino diaspora. Her SSHRC-funded research focuses on historical and contemporary investigations of North American interventions into Filipino health care and childcare practices, and reactions and resistance to these. Her current work includes an investigation into early 20th century attempts to address high infant mortality rates in the Philippines during the American colonial occupation, as a case study in imperial attempts to restructure affect and intimacy, and the ways debates about children were used as a terrain for imperial and nationalist arguments. She also coordinates a life history research group with Filipino-Canadian graduate and undergraduate students.

Font: Joan Pujolar – jpujolar (arroba) uoc (punt) edu