Affective Expertise: Gender, Class, and the Labor of Social Work in Ho Chi Minh City

Monday, Apr 2 2018, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, CAPA Symposium
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Monday, Apr 2 2018 7:00 PM Monday, Apr 2 2018 8:30 PM America/New_York Affective Expertise: Gender, Class, and the Labor of Social Work in Ho Chi Minh City OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Ann Marie Leshkowich is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Asian Studies at College of the Holy Cross. CAPA Symposium Bennington College

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Ann Marie Leshkowich is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Asian Studies at College of the Holy Cross. Her research focuses on gender, economic transformation, neoliberalism, middle classness, fashion, social work, and adoption in Vietnam. She is author of Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014), for which she was awarded the 2016 Harry J. Benda Prize, and coeditor of Traders in Motion: Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace (Cornell University Press, 2018) and Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress (Berg, 2003).