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Dear All,

We are delighted to invite you to the eighth webinar of the series Images, Ageing and Care: Gods Waiting Room: Images of Care in Poetic Form webinar with Casey Golomski. Cati Coe will moderate the discussion.

It will take place on Monday, 9th December 18:00-19:30 CET, 17:00-18: 30 GMT, 12:00-13:30 Eastern, on Zoom: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/93360548693 Meeting ID: 933 6054 8693

ABOUT THE TALK: A new work of creative nonfiction, Gods Waiting Room (Rutgers University Press and Wits University Press) flips the script on racial discrimination in US long term care, showing how older racist whites and their black nurses find grace together among their ghosts and despite the odds. Set thirty years after apartheid in South Africa, it features the untold story of Nelson Mandelas Robben Island Prison nurse as well as stories of queer older adults and healthcare providers, teaching us how racism, ageism, and sexism impact where we end up, who cares, and what matters in the end. While grounded in seven years of ethnographic research, the book is narrated as taking place in a single day and employs color photos and visually striking elements of poetic form, translation, and prose. This seminar offers a window into the authors creative process, situating these narrative elements within histories of imagistic and ethnographic poetry and relating the book to recent imagistic approaches in the anthropology of aging, care, and the Otherwise.

BIO: A creative writer and cultural and medical anthropologist, Casey Golomski is a Department Chair and Associate Professor at the University of New Hampshire, with visiting appointments at the universities of Pretoria and the Witwatersrand. He is the author of the book Funeral Culture (Indiana University Press) and many articles, special issues, and poems in anthropology, African and Black studies, and literary journals.

ABOUT THE WEBINAR SERIES ON IMAGES, AGEING AND CARE: This webinar series free and open to all- gathers anthropologists and image-makers interested in exploring the ontological and epistemological connections between images, aging and care, treating the relationship and these phenomena as requiring and inviting interrogation. It is sponsored by the Images of Care Collective, the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology and the Life Course (AAGE), EASAs Age and Generations Network (AgeNet) and the Network for Visual Anthropology of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (VANEASA). You can see our past webinars here.

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Looking forward to seeing you all there, Barbara Pieta, Cati Coe, Paolo Favero and Martina Lagan

PhD Candidate@ Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Department 'Integration and Conflict')

Advokatenweg 36, D-06114 Halle/Saale

Co-founder of the Images of Care Collective

Recently published:

Pieta, Barbara. 2024. Skilling the Vision as Envisioning Aging Futures: On Visual Apprenticeship in the Anthropology of Aging and Care. In Aging Globally: Challenges and Possibilities of Growing Old in an Unsettling Era, edited by Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori, American Ethnologist website, 7 August 2024. [https://americanethnologist.org/online-content/collections/aging-globally/sk illing-the-vision-as-envisioning-aging-futures-on-visual-apprenticeship-in-th e-anthropology-of-aging-and-careby-barbara-pieta/]

Pieta, Barbara 2023. Carescopes: On Caring, Looking at and Becoming. A case of Positive Dementia Portrayals in a Dementia Respite Center, North Italy Anthrovision, no. 9.2 (December). https://doi.org/10.4000/anthrovision.9299.

Pieta, Barbara, and Francesco Diodati. 2023. The Ethnographer, the Research Participants, and the Meaningful Others: Gray Zones of Relationality and the Ethics of Dementia Care Research. Journal of Aging Studies 65 (June). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101141.

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