"Making it Real: Disability Rights and Wrongs in Postsocialist Eastern Europe"
by Sarah Phillips, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Indiana
April 18th 2008, 1:00-2:00pm
McGavran Greenberg 2301, UNC-CH School of Public Health

Pizza provided!

Dr. Sarah Phillips has been conducting anthropological research in Ukraine since 1995. Her researchinterests include the effects of socialist collapse on people?s lives, especially in terms of gender formations,health, social inequalities and social justice, and changing citizen-state relations. Dr. Phillips' work hasresearch applications beyond Eastern Europe, especially as she seeks to extend understandings of civil societyprocesses and changing citizenship regimes in contexts of political and social change. Her recent research hasfocused on women, social activism and civil society, and the Ukrainian disability rights movement.

Event sponsored by Student Congress,
SPH Office of Student Activities, Medical Anthropology