April 30, 2024
Time:
2:00 pm
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Suturing histories of caste and sexuality to histories of dissent, this discussion rearranges the grammar of our ethical engagements with the past and present. At stake here are the historical vernaculars that found the evidentiary regimes of rights and representation for minoritised subjects in South Asia.
Hosted in collaboration with the Saida Waheed Gender Initiative (SWGI), the session will be moderated by Dr. Nida Kirmani.
Panelists:
• Dr. Anjali Arondekar – Professor of Feminist Studies and Founding Director, Center for South Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Dr. Nida Kirmani – Associate Professor, Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUMS
Profiles:
Dr. Anjali Arondekar
Dr. Arondekar's research engages the poetics and politics of sexuality, caste, and historiography, with a focus on Indian Ocean Studies and South Asia. She is the author of For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (Duke University Press, 2009, Orient Blackswan, India, 2010), winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for best book in lesbian, gay, or queer studies in literature and cultural studies, Modern Language Association (MLA), 2010. She is co-editor (with Geeta Patel) of “Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2016), and (with Sherene Seikaly) of “Pandemic Histories,” History of the Present (2022). Her second book, Abundance: Sexuality’s History (Duke University Press, 2023, Orient Blackswan, 2023), grows out of her interest in the archival figurations of sexuality, caste and historiography in British and Portuguese colonial India.
Dr. Nida Kirmani
Dr. Kirmani is an Associate Professor of Sociology at LUMS. She is a leading, feminist public intellectual who has published widely on issues related to gender, Islam, women’s movements, development, and urban studies in India and Pakistan.
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