Transcending Unspeakable Violence: A Transnational Southasian Feminist Movement

Kavita Panjabi will give a public lecture, “Transcending Unspeakable Violence: A Transnational Southasian Feminist Movement”  on Thursday, April 11 at 12:30 p.m. in Sims 319 and on Zoom (registration required).

Reflection on the power of affect in feminist challenges to sexually violative militarism, and on questions of irreconciliation, forgiveness, dignity and responsibility that marked a unique solidarity forged between Southasian feminists in the aftermath of the 1971 war.

Dr. Panjabi is retired Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and Founder-Coordinator of the Centre for Studies in Latin American Literatures and Cultures (CSLALC) at Jadavpur University (JU), Kolkata. She coordinated the Centre for Advanced Study, Department of Comparative Literature, and served as a member of the 5-nation Zubaan research project on Sexual Violence & Impunity in South Asia from 2014-15. A prolific scholar, she is the author of Unclaimed Harvest: An Oral History of the Tebhaga Women’s Movement (Zubaan Books and Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, 2016) and Old Maps and New: Legacies of the Partition, (Seagull Books, 2005).  Her edited volumes include Women Contesting Culture: Changing Frames of Gender Politics in India, 2012, and Cartographies of Affect: Across Borders in South Asia and the Americas, 2011. She has also served a guest editor for Dalit Narratives and Testimonial Literature in India, JJCL, Vol 46, 2009.

 

This event is sponsored by the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and co-sponsored by the South Asia Center.