Date:
Location:
"The Cancer War(d): Onco-Nationhood, Techno-Development, and Postcolonial Leadership in Rwanda"
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Speaker:
Darja Djordjevic, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, JURA Bio, Inc.; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Global Health Equity.
Contact:
Sadeq Rahimi
Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu
This seminar is cosponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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https://harvard.zoom.us/j/99760582160
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Speaker Bio:
Darja Djordjevic holds an MD PhD from Harvard Medical School and Department of Anthropology, a Master 2 from École normale supérieure and École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France, and AB from Harvard College. Her doctoral research and dissertation, which she completed under the guidance of Professors Arthur Kleinman, Paul Farmer, Jean Comaroff, and John Comaroff, focused on public oncology infrastructure in Rwanda, which she first became involved with in summer 2010. She received extensive clinical training in hematology/oncology at Harvard’s hospitals, Hôpital Tenon in Paris, and Butaro Cancer Center of Excellence/Butaro Hospital in Rwanda. She also trained in clinical psychiatry at Yale. Her initial investigation and analysis in Burera District coincided with the nation’s first prevention campaigns, which focused on breast and cervical cancer. Women’s health has been at the core of Darja’s work since college. Her AB and Master 2 research projects as a student-activist-advocate both focused on African refugee women’s health and political asylum rights in France, even involved lobbying the French government. She serves as Executive Director of the nonprofit Project Clio, and Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at JURA Bio, Inc. and Harvard University. Current scholarly projects include a book manuscript, The Cancer War(d): Onco-Nationhood in Post-Genocide Rwanda, based on research conducted from 2010 through the present. Her publications have appeared in BioSocieties, Journal of Global Oncology, and Medicine Anthropology Theory. She is also Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda, Research Associate at the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research (WiSER) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and Fellow at Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation.
