Forthcoming Event

About the Speaker

Professor Sarah Lamb — Brandeis University, United States

Sarah Lamb, Professor of Anthropology and Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences, is a cultural anthropologist who studies the ways people construct their social-cultural worlds and identities, particularly surrounding age, gender, the body, family, religion, and nation. She critically investigates everyday life practices and experiences, medical and legal discourses, and taken-for-granted assumptions, 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. After undergraduate training in religious studies at Brown University and graduate training in anthropology at the University of Chicago, she became a postdoctoral fellow in medical anthropology and sociocultural gerontology at the University of California-San Francisco. Her primary ethnographic research has been carried out in West Bengal, India and among Indian immigrants as well as older white Americans in the San Francisco, Boston, and Bible Belt areas of the United States.

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Convenor:  Prof Jaco Hoffman

Please note that this is a Hybrid event. We welcome colleagues to 45 Banbury Road or on line via Zoom:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89133708250

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