[Urban-Media] Talk Friday: Globality and Gendered Violence

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Emergent Globality & Acts of Gendered Violence:
Languages of Resistance & Co-option

A talk by Kumkum Sangari


FRIDAY 17 NOVEMBER at 4:30 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building 14E-304
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=14&Buildings=go

Kumkum Sangari is Professor of English at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has published extensively on gender studies,
literature, critical theory, religious conversion, medieval oral and
devotional traditions, nationalist figures such as Gandhi and Annie
Besant, domestic labour, the beauty industry, widow immolation and
communal violence. She is the author of Politics of the Possible: Essays
on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial English (2002), and co-editor
of From Myths to Markets: Essays on Gender (1999), Recasting Women:
Essays in Colonial History (1990), Women and Culture (1985).

Hosted by Abha Sur, the MIT Program in Women?s Studies, and the South
Asia Forum.



-- 
Shekhar Krishnan <shekhar at mit.edu>
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)