Past Events (2023 to 2025)

S.no.

Title

Events

Speaker 

date

  1.  

Child Marriage in an international Frame: A Feminist Review from India

Book Discussion

Prof. Mary E. John former professor, Centre for Women’s Development Studies

18th May, 2023 

  1.  

On the Shaky Ground of Surrender & Subversion: Refugee Dancers of Post-Colonial Bengal

 

Prof. Aishika Chakraborty, School of Women’s Studies, jadavpur university

18th August, 2023 

  1.  

‘Governed Body, Ungoverned Sex and Gender Performativity: A Case of Hijra in Bangladesh’

Talk

Rezwana Karim Snigdha, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka.

 

October 19, 2023

 

  1.  

Academic Writing: Citation, Falsification, Fabrication and Plagiarism 

Workshop

Dr. Anirban Ghosh and his team from Centre for Writing, Shiv Nadar University

4th November, 2023 

  1.  

Journal Writing & Publication Workshop 

Talk

Prof. Celia Donert, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

6th November, 2023 

  1.  

Rage and a Feminist Resurgence 

Talk

Dr. Alka Kurian, University of Washington Bothell.

30th January, 2024 

  1.  

Women, Literary Practices and the Social in India

Workshop

Dr. Urmila Bhirdikar, Shiv Nadar University

Dr. Soibam Haripriya, IIIT Delhi

Dr. Sreejata Paul, Shiv Nadar University

Prof. G. Arunima, CWS, JNU

Dr. Smita Patil, IGNOU

Prof. Simona Sawhney, IIT Delhi

Prof. Uday Kumar, JNU

5th February, 2024

 

  1.  

Intersections of Gender, Race and Class: Understanding South Asian Women Workers’ Struggles Against Exploitation in the UK 

Workshop

Dr. Sundari Anitha, Chair in Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield

February 28, 2024 

  1.  

Gendering Publics: Readings from a Mahila Samiti Archive in Colonial Assam

Talk

Dr. Hemjyoti Medhi, Tezpur University

19th March, 2024 

  1.  

Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India

Book launch and discussion 

(Co-organised with Zubaan Books and CSLG, JNU)

Rupal Oza, Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies, Hunter College, New York
rchana Dwivedi, Nirantar,
Manisha Mashaal, Activist and Lawyer,
Radhika Govindarajan, Department of Anthropology,
University of Washington,
Tejaswi Chhatwal, PhD Scholar, JNU

12th July, 2024

 

 

  1.  

Her Face: A Philosophical Understanding of Cinematic and other Close-ups

Talk

Dr. Senjuti Dutta, Assistant Professor, St. Xavier’s Collage, Kolkata

16th August, 2024 

 

  1.  

Queering Normativity and South Asian Public Culture

Book Talk

(co-organised with Center for English Studies, JNU)

Dr. Daniel Luther, Associate Programme Director, University of Oxford.

2nd September, 2024

 

  1.  

Visualising the Field: Thinking Methodically

Talk

Dr. Subhajit Sikder, Research Scholar, London School of Economics

25th September, 2024 

  1.  

Singles Studies in India: Charting An Academic Journey 

Talk

Dr. Ketaki Chowkhani, Assistant Professor at Manipal Centre for Humanities.

22nd October, 2024 

  1.  

Feminist Movements

In India 

 

Book Discussion

Sadhna Arya, Department of Political science,

Delhi University, Nilika Mehrotra, Center for the Study of Social Systems, JNU and Poorva Bharadwaj, Independent Scholar

18th November, 2024

 

  1.  

Dil Dosti etc….. Exploring the World of Social Relationships in the Lives of Young Women in Higher Education

Talk

Dr. Renu Singh Independent Scholar

 

2nd December, 2024 

  1.  

GIAN course titled: “Feminism, Theatre and Activism”

One Week Course

Elaine Aston (Professor Emerita, Lancaster University, UK), invited foreign faculty and the course was organized by Co-Instructors Navaneetha Mokkil and Mallarika Sinha Roy

February 17th 2025 to February 21st 2025

  1.  

 “Operating Together: Reflections on Policewomen, Cinematic Representations, and Indian Feminism through Soni” 

Talk

Dr. Pooja Satyogi, Assistant Professor, Ambedkar University Delhi.

26th March 2025

  1.  

 “Resisting Silence and Stigma: Mothering and Sex Work” 

Talk

Irma Kondrataite, Deputy Director of the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Vilnius University, Lithuania

22nd April, 2025.

  1.  

 “Local Feminisms, Global Conversations: The Self Respecters Critical Engagement with Gender Equity 

Talk

Dr. S. Jeevanandam, Assistant Professor, CWS, JNU

29th April, 2025.