What does it mean to “grow up” today? Traditional markers of adulthood – moving out, finishing school, getting married, and having children – have become increasingly delayed in the 21st century. How are Millennials redefining what it means to be an adult in our age of insecurity and uncertainty?
What Ho Chi Minh City residents worry about as they fall in and out of love reflects neoliberal reconfigurations of the relation between self and society in which both romantic love and anxiety are produced by changing discourses of romance and the powers of the self that have emerged out of economic reforms. I present a close analysis of two case studies in order to understand how individuals draw from and reinvent tropes associated with romance to claim their own versions of a modern identity.
This presentation reviews recent contributions of disability studies to Classics and Classics to disability studies. Via a few test cases, Daly will argue that to date the two disciplines have to some degree misheard each other. The interaction between the fields is important to scholars of both fields, but the evidence for ancient conceptions of difference has often been conflated with the evidence for the influence of the reception of Classics on modern perceptions. Daly will also consider whether the concept of race in Classical Studies might prove a useful analog to considering matters of disability.
The New York Times calls Berlin the “graffiti capital” of the world. Ever since the colorfully painted Berlin Wall fell in 1989, graffiti and street art adopted intriguing new meanings in Germany’s capital. This talk illuminates how recent German films capture graffiti as meaningful forms of expression for minorities living in Berlin.
Vital statistics have become intimately tied to constructions of “risk” in maternal and child health. In this talk, Fordyce will examine how narratives of epidemiological risk, evaluated through vital statistics, contribute to particular assumptions about maternal subjects. Drawing on ethnographic research with Haitian women in south Florida, she explores how these narratives illustrate ways in which Haitian women’s local moral worlds intersect with decisions about accessing bio-medical prenatal care.