Resistance and Religion: Health Care in Uganda, 1970-1980

Time: 12:00pm

Location: Room 2019, Floor 2U, Claire Fagin Hall

Abstract: This seminar aims to situate women’s roles in health care during violence in Uganda in the 1970s. The focal point is the work of Catholic missionaries as sister nurses, midwives, and physicians in Uganda after the dismantling of empires. The seminar brings together an understanding of the social context of mission medicine and nursing in Uganda, specifically with the goal of examining how religious women worked during periods of violence and war. It examines the lived reality of missionary work on the ground where sisters actually administered health care.