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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4>The Program in Women’s and
Gender Studies at MIT presents<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">The McMillan-Stewart Lecture
on Women in the Developing World<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2> <br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=5>Gender, Globalization,
and Development in </font>China and India<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2> <br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">Speakers:<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=5>Professors Lin Chun and
Uma Chakravarty <br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2> <br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4>Thursday April,
10th<br>
Time: </font>4:00pm<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4>Location: Building 10-105, MIT
Vannevar Bush Room<br>
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<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">Lin Chun teaches politics and
history in East Asian Studies <br>
at</font> New York University. She has also researched and taught
for <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">several</font> years at the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences and at the <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">London</font> School of Economics and
Political Science. She is the author <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">of</font> <i>The British New Left
</i>(1993) and <i>The Transformation of Chinese <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Socialism</i></font> (2006), and the
editor of <i>China I, II and III</i> (2000) and, <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">in</font> Chinese, <i>Women: The
Longest Revolution</i> (1997), an anthology of <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">feminist</font> classics.<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2> <br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">Uma</font> Chakravarti is a
feminist historian who has taught <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">history</font> at Miranda House,
University College for Women, Delhi <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">University.</font> She works on
gender caste and labor in India. She is the <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">author</font> of <i>Rewriting
History: The Life and Times of Pandita <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Ramabai</font> </i>(1998);
<i>Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens</i> (2002); <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>Everyday Lives, Everyday
Histories: Beyond the Kings and Brahmanas <br>
of</font> Ancient India</i> (2006). Professor Chakravarty has been
associated <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">with</font> movements for democratic
rights and women's rights since the 1970s.<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2> <br>
<i>Free and open to the general public.<br>
</i> <br>
Sponsors:<br>
Women and Gender Studies, Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies
<br>
The MIT Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies.<br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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