Organizer: Harvard University Asia Center

Type/Location: Virtual

Description:

Join the Harvard University Science and Technology in Asia seminar series for a talk by Jenna Grant, Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Washington, who will discuss drug-resistant malaria and its implications in the Greater Mekong subregion. Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, will moderate the discussion.

About the Speaker:

Jenna Grant is a cultural anthropologist working in the fields of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, visual anthropology, and Southeast Asia Studies. Her research centers on Cambodia, which she argues is an important place for thinking through postcolonial and Cold War histories in contemporary medical, technological, and visual practices. She theorizes these practices as care and repair, which relate to both health care specifically but also a more general understanding of care for the self and collective that involves ongoing repair of infrastructures, relationships, and beings. She has developed my research questions, methods, and commitments in three different directions: medical imaging and visual practices of health care in Phnom Penh; Cambodia as a site of experimental global health sciences; and experiments in collective care in Cambodia and the U.S. Her book, Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh (2022), was published by UW Press.

Registration:

To attend the event virtually, please register here.