Please join us for a brown bag lunch to hear Professor Debotri Dhar, Jean Campbell Visiting Scholar at U-M’s Center for the Education of Women, and Lecturer in Women’s Studies, speak about her research works-in-progress.
Dr. Dhar will present key insights from her monograph Violence, Knowledge and the Female Body: Interrogating Rape Narratives; a forthcoming co-edited volume Education in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands; as well as an article on feminist theory, comparative religion, and love. Dr. Dhar’s transdisciplinary research explores, though the lens of gender, the intersections between disciplines, epistemic frames, theory and praxis, in order to ask critical questions pertaining to gender, sexual violence, and education.
The talk will interrogate how hegemonic understandings of “bodies” — seen in terms of both gender and knowledge — frame and mediate national and transnational initiatives on sexual violence and education. Dr. Dhar is particularly interested in situating these initiatives within the difficult dialogues between “the east” and “the west,” in light of past and present colonial practices, to examine the possibilities and limitations of love as a (feminist) method.
This event is free and open to the public. Please feel free to bring your lunch. Indian appetizers will be ordered so please RSVP below!
http://www.cew.umich.edu/progevents/bodies-knowledge-talk-dr-debotri-dhar/20160121
Dr. Dhar will present key insights from her monograph Violence, Knowledge and the Female Body: Interrogating Rape Narratives; a forthcoming co-edited volume Education in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands; as well as an article on feminist theory, comparative religion, and love. Dr. Dhar’s transdisciplinary research explores, though the lens of gender, the intersections between disciplines, epistemic frames, theory and praxis, in order to ask critical questions pertaining to gender, sexual violence, and education.
The talk will interrogate how hegemonic understandings of “bodies” — seen in terms of both gender and knowledge — frame and mediate national and transnational initiatives on sexual violence and education. Dr. Dhar is particularly interested in situating these initiatives within the difficult dialogues between “the east” and “the west,” in light of past and present colonial practices, to examine the possibilities and limitations of love as a (feminist) method.
This event is free and open to the public. Please feel free to bring your lunch. Indian appetizers will be ordered so please RSVP below!
http://www.cew.umich.edu/progevents/bodies-knowledge-talk-dr-debotri-dhar/20160121
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