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From Gifts to Grants: The Ethics of Orphan Support in Uganda: Graduate Student Lecture Series

Lecture | November 3 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 652 Barrows Hall

Speaker: China Rose Scherz, Graduate Student, UCB / UCSF Medical Anthropology Program

Sponsor: African Studies, Center for

China Scherz is a PhD candidate in Medical Anthropology at the Universities of California,
Berkeley and San Francisco. Through her research in Uganda, Ireland, and the United States, she
has examined the negotiation of emergent ethical and moral dilemmas involved in the
relationships between children, families, and institutions. Her dissertation research in Uganda
explores the ethics of interrelationship between the rich and the poor, and examines the ways in
which people use Western categories of charity and development, and the kiganda categories of
mutima (heart), patronage, and kinship, to make decisions about orphan care in Uganda.
Throughout her work she has questioned how people decide what constitutes “good” behavior,
how it is instilled with value, and how these values change over time.

Open to audience: All Audiences

Event Contact: 510-642-8338

Document: Scherz event flyer