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Michele Friedner: Disability and Ambiguous Value
The Department of Anthropology is holding its next Speaker Series: "Disability and Ambiguous Value: The case of deaf workers in Indian multinational corporations."
- Lecturer: Michele Friedner, assistant professor at Stony Brook University - SUNY
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Time: 1 to 2 p.m.
- Place: Dickson Hall, Cohen Lounge
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The emergence of the Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) sector in Bangalore has become synonymous with the discourse of "India Shining." This discourse has produced imaginaries of infinite possibility enabled by technology, especially for disabled people.
In this talk, Friedner will analyze the role that the ITES sector plays in the lives of deaf young adults in search of livelihood and belonging in Bangalore.
This event is free and light refreshments will be served.
About the speaker
Michele Friedner is an assistant professor at Stony Brook University-SUNY (New York). She is a medical anthropologist who researches deaf and disabled peoples' social, political, and economic practices in urban India. She is the author of Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India as well as numerous articles and book chapters. In July 2017, she will join the University of Chicago's Comparative Human Development faculty.