The Gender of the Number, the Gender of the Card: On the (Im)materiality of Governance and Biometric Identity in India

Life (Un) Ltd Speaker Series

The Gender of the Number, the Gender of the Card: 

On the (Im)materiality of Governance and Biometric Identity in India

Lawrence Cohen

Join us for a lecture featuring Lawrence Cohen, Professor of Anthropology and South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley.

TIME: 4 pm
DATE: March 5, 2014
PLACE: Public Policy 2355

Lawrence Cohen is a Professor in Anthropology and South and Southeast Asian Studies and the co-director of the Medical Anthropology Program. His research in South Asia has included the following: aging, postcoloniality, and rhetorics of family decline; Ayurveda and its contemporary transformations; the popular folklore of Ganesh; and AIDS prevention and the emergence of kothi identities. His award-winning book No Aging in India: Alzheimers, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things, appeared in 1998. He is currently writing a book on homosexuality, politics, and commodity aesthetics, and on renal transplantation, the Indian market in organs, and the relation of the operation to modernity and development more generally.