LOCATING AGENCY: FEMINISMS, RELIGIONS AND EMPIRE AFTER THE TRANSNATIONAL TURN

<strong>CENTRE FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES, JNU</strong> a Seminar on <strong>LOCATING AGENCY: FEMINISMS, RELIGIONS AND EMPIRE AFTER THE TRANSNATIONAL TURN</strong> By <strong>Prof. Clare Midgley</strong> (Research Professor in History, Sheffield Hallam University) This paper draws on Clare Midgley's current research into interchanges and co-operation between members of the Brahmo Samaj and British and American Unitarians over the course of the nineteenth century to critically revisit the interpretive framework of imperial feminism and re-evaluate the question of subaltern agency under colonialism. It suggests that the 'transnational turn' in historical scholarship on South Asia and elsewhere has opened up new perspectives on the past that call into question some of the earlier conclusions of postcolonial feminist scholarship. Date: <strong>25 August 2016</strong>