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Imaginal Worldbuilding: Dementia and Family Caregiving in Pandemic Denmark”
July 7 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
We are delighted to welcome Ida Vandsøe Madsen (Copenhagen), who will present a talk entitled:
“Imaginal Worldbuilding: Dementia and Family Caregiving in Pandemic Denmark”
Ida Vandsøe Madsen is a Teaching Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the same department, awarded in October 2024. Her research is situated within medical and psychological anthropology, with a particular interest in phenomenology. Her doctoral dissertation, Imaginal Worldbuilding: Dementia and family caring in pandemic Denmark, offers an intimate phenomenological analysis of the experiences of relatives to people with dementia in Denmark. The study is situated within broader societal changes, including shifts in the national care infrastructure that increasingly place responsibility on civil society. Her fieldwork also included perspectives from people living with dementia. The lecture will provide an overview of the dissertation and explore topics such as exhaustion, mental imagery, care across distances, and methodological advances in listening.
As always, everyone is welcome—please feel free to share this invitation with interested colleagues and networks. If you’re interested, just drop me a quick message and I’ll send you the password.
To get a joining link email edzwiza@uni-koeln.de
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