[Hum_Calendar_Events] CNES 5/10 Citizens, Real Others, and Other Others: Biopolitical and Critical Phenomenological Reflections on Migrant Illegality in Tel Aviv

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		Citizens, Real Others, and Other Others: Biopolitical
and Critical Phenomenological Reflections on Migrant Illegality in Tel
Aviv
		
		
		
		
		A lecture by Sarah S. Willen
		
		Monday, May 10, 2010
		3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
		352 Haines Hall
		UCLA
		
		Sarah S. Willen, PhD, MPH, is Assistant Professor of
Anthropology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.  Before joining
SMU, she held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Department of
Global Health & Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School (2006-09),
including two years as Postdoctoral Fellow in the NIMH Postdoctoral
Training Program in Culture and Mental Health. She earned her PhD in
Anthropology, along with an MPH, from Emory University in 2006.  She has
served as Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard
(2008-09); Fellow at the Center for Health, Culture, and Society at
Emory's Rollins School of Public Health (2004-05); Research Affiliate in
the Department of Anthropology at UCLA (2004-05); and both Raoul
Wallenberg Fellow (1996-97) and Lady Davis Graduate Fellow (2002-03) at
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 
		
		Dr. Willen is editor of Transnational Migration to
Israel in Global Comparative Context (Lexington Books, 2007), guest
editor of a special issue of International Migration entitled "Exploring
'Illegal' and 'Irregular' Migrants' Lived Experiences of Law and State
Power" (August 2007), and co-editor (with Byron Good, Michael M.J.
Fischer, and Mary-Jo DelVecchip Good) of A Reader in Medical
Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities
(Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming May 2010). Among her other publications
are articles in International Migration, Cultures et Conflits, the
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, and the Harvard Review of
Psychiatry. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Working
Hands, Unwanted Bodies: "Illegal" Labor Migration, State Power, and the
Embodiment of Otherness in Israel. 
		
		
		Lecture is cosponsored by Mind, Medicine, and Culture
Group, and UCLA Department of Anthropology

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Cost: Free and open to the public


For more information, contact:

Mona Ramezani, Center for Near Eastern Studies
Tel: (310) 825-1181
cnes at international.ucla.edu

http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes




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