Greetings from the Moulding Methods Initiative at IDEAS, Office of Interdisciplinary Studies at JGU.

We are excited to invite you to the second dialogue at the Ethnographic Method Series of Moulding Methods, titled, "Methodologies of Care: Researching Cancer and Abortion in South Asia". 

Dr Shagufta K Bhangu and Dr Rishita Nandagiri will be in conversation with Dr Priya Ranjan, addressing the complexities of emotionally and physically precarious bodies and what methodologies of medical anthropology can be used to navigate this field. 

Date: 21st March, Friday
Time: 2:30 to 4pm
Webinar Link :- https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ieC7p6eGQ3qseWgNYHdzmA
Password :- JGU

About the Speakers:
Shagufta K Bhangu is a Lecturer, GTA Lead and PGR Deputy Director in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. Previously, Shagufta worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Wellcome-funded project, 'Grid Oncology : Remaking Cancer Care in India' between 2020 and 2022. She holds a MA and MPhil in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi and a PhD in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Shiv Nadar University (2021). In 2017-2018, Shagufta was a Fulbright Doctoral Scholar in the joint medical anthropology programme at University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the Culture, Medicine and Power (CMP) research group, the Anti-Racism and Decolonising Steering Committee (for which she served as Deputy Chair in 2023-2024) and the Spatialities and Networks of Cancer groups at King's. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Secretary of the Medical Anthropology Committee. She is also one of the convenors of the Politics of Cancer Network. She holds a MA and MPhil in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi and a PhD in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Shiv Nadar University (2021).

Dr Rishita Nandagiri is a Lecturer in Global Health & Social Medicine, and Deputy Programme Director, MSc in Global Health, Social Justice and Public Policy. Prior to joining King’s, she held postdoctoral positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In 2020-2021, Rishita was an ESRC funded postdoctoral fellow at LSE’s Department of Methodology where she worked with feminist collectives in India to co-produce visual resources on abortion and abortion care-seeking. She has worked with several feminist collectives and advocacy groups globally, and has consulted for multilateral organisations including the WHO and UNFPA. Rishita currently serves on the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population’s Scientific Panel on Abortion Research and is a council member of the British Society for Population Studies. She is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of International Development, LSE. Rishita is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Dr. Priya Ranjan is an Associate Professor at Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities. Priya Ranjan is a sociologist with teaching and research interests in medical sociology, social studies of science and technology, and bioethics. His doctoral degree (Jawaharlal Nehru University) examined the political economy of technoscience by focusing on the medical biotechnology sector in India. His current research investigates the linkages between the dominant bioethics discourse and the ongoing commercialization of human bodies and tissues.

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