Roundtable discussion and closing event: Covid in the House of Old: Care in Crisis

With Aaron Derfel (Montreal Gazette), Lorraine McCrary (Wabash College, US), Sayendri Panchadhyayi (Presidency University, Kolkata, India), Camille Robert (UQAM), Penny Vera Sanso (Birkbeck, London), and Marie-Claude Thifault (University of Ottawa). The conversation is chaired by Magda Fahrni (UQAM).

Aaron Derfel is the Montreal Gazette’s medical reporter, specializing in investigative and narrative journalism. In 2021 he was a “Canadian Association of Jouranlists Award” for his reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic in Quebec.

Lorraine McCrary is a political theorist based at Wabash College (US) whose research brings together disability studies and the feminist ethic of care.

Sayendri Panchadhyayi is a research fellow at the Department of Sociology, Presidency University, Kolkata, India, who has worked extensively on old age care, caregiving and Covid-19 in India.

Camille Robert est candidate au doctorat en histoire à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Son projet de thèse porte sur les conflits liés au travail de reproduction sociale dans le contexte du tournant néolibéral de l’État québécois.

Penny Vera Sanso is Senior Lecturer in Development and Social Anthropology at Birkbeck, University of London. She has been researching gender, age and poverty in India for over twenty-five years. With the award-winning director Deepa Dhanra, she produced two documentaries: “The Forgotten Generation” and “We’re Still Working.”

Marie-Claude Thifault est une infirmière psychiatrique de formation, professeure titulaire à l’École des sciences infirmières de l’Université d’Ottawa, directrice de l’Unité de recherche sur l’histoire du nursing et titulaire de la Chaire de recherche sur la francophonie canadienne en santé. Sa recherche porte sur l’histoire des institutions psychiatriques canadiennes, l’histoire des infirmières, des femmes et des communautés religieuses.

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