"Ageless Aging or Meaningful Decline? A Critical Analysis of “Successful Aging” through the Lens of Everyday Lives in India" a talk by Professor Sarah Lamb at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 6:30pm on 25th February 2015
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"Ageless Aging or Meaningful Decline? A Critical Analysis of “Successful Aging” through the Lens of Everyday Lives in India" a talk by Professor Sarah Lamb
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Venue : Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001
Event Description : "Ageless Aging or Meaningful Decline? A Critical Analysis of “Successful Aging” through the Lens of Everyday Lives in India" a talk by Professor Sarah Lamb.
Within the framework of the workshop New Approaches to Aging in South Asia and Europe,
anthropologist Professor Sarah Lamb will present an address on "Ageless Aging or Meaningful Decline? A Critical Analysis of “Successful Aging” through the Lens of Everyday Lives in India". The workshop focuses on the diversity of individual, socio-cultural and local particularities and experiences of ageing. It brings together researchers from different disciplines to discuss ageing in South Asia and Europe from a cultural and socio-scientific perspective in order to promote interdisciplinary exchange and new research initiatives. Sarah Lamb’s address brings the perspectives of older subjects from India into dialogue with the mushrooming public, academic and biomedical discourse on successful aging originating in Europe and North America and circulating around the globe. Research on ageing in South Asia has begun to investigate in important ways how transcultural concepts of ageing - tied to processes such as Westernisation, globalisation, and the transnational migration of families - impact ways of ageing within South Asia. This keynote address wishes to look in the opposite direction, focusing not on how transcultural discourses influence life in South Asia, but rather on how fieldwork with elders and their communities in India can be used to critique the globally circulating dialogue on successful-healthy aging. The address draws on Sarah Lamb’s two decades of fieldwork with elders and their communities in and around Kolkata and rural West Bengal.
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
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Event Description : "Ageless Aging or Meaningful Decline? A Critical Analysis of “Successful Aging” through the Lens of Everyday Lives in India" a talk by Professor Sarah Lamb.
Within the framework of the workshop New Approaches to Aging in South Asia and Europe,
anthropologist Professor Sarah Lamb will present an address on "Ageless Aging or Meaningful Decline? A Critical Analysis of “Successful Aging” through the Lens of Everyday Lives in India". The workshop focuses on the diversity of individual, socio-cultural and local particularities and experiences of ageing. It brings together researchers from different disciplines to discuss ageing in South Asia and Europe from a cultural and socio-scientific perspective in order to promote interdisciplinary exchange and new research initiatives. Sarah Lamb’s address brings the perspectives of older subjects from India into dialogue with the mushrooming public, academic and biomedical discourse on successful aging originating in Europe and North America and circulating around the globe. Research on ageing in South Asia has begun to investigate in important ways how transcultural concepts of ageing - tied to processes such as Westernisation, globalisation, and the transnational migration of families - impact ways of ageing within South Asia. This keynote address wishes to look in the opposite direction, focusing not on how transcultural discourses influence life in South Asia, but rather on how fieldwork with elders and their communities in India can be used to critique the globally circulating dialogue on successful-healthy aging. The address draws on Sarah Lamb’s two decades of fieldwork with elders and their communities in and around Kolkata and rural West Bengal.
Sarah Lamb, Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University, is a cultural anthropologist who studies the ways people construct their social-cultural worlds and identities, particularly surrounding aging, gender, the body, family, and nation. She critically investigates everyday life practices and experiences, medical and legal discourses as a means to understand both how social-cultural worlds are made, and the nature of the particular forms of aging and gender (body, nation, etc.) that people believe in.
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