Dalit History Month Celebration

The Women’s and Gender Studies Department will be hosting two events to celebrate Dalit History Month.

April 11, 4:00 – 5:30 pm

Lecture: “Contesting Caste, Gender, and Sexuality: Dalit Poetics-Politics in Modern India.”

Focusing on the life histories of some leading Dalit Ambedkarite shahirs (bards), Dr. Shailaja Paik analyzes the hitherto unexplored contradictory and contentious interlocking technologies of community construction, stigmatized labor, gendered and sexual norms, the struggle for survival, and popular culture.

Register for the webinar lecture here.

April 12, 9:00 – 12:00 pm

Graduate Workshop: “Dalit Feminist Thought.”

This graduate student workshop will focus on the myriad ways through which Dalits have expanded, challenged, and revolutionized feminism. Participants will learn about feminist epistemological and methodological frameworks that situate Dalit women’s experiences as epistemic spaces to analyze the materiality of caste, class, gender, and sexuality.

Registration for the workshop is open only to SU graduate students. However, if you are a student or have students who you think will benefit from this workshop, please contact Dr. Himika Bhattacharya directly at hbhattac@syr.edu.

This event is co-sponsored by the following units at Syracuse University: South Asia Center, Department of History, Department of African American Studies, SU Humanities Center, Department of Sociology, and the Department of Art & Music Histories.

Faculty Organizer: Himika Bhattacharya hbhattac@syr.edu

For more details contact: Susann DeMocker-Shedd sademock@syr.edu