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Transnational Feminisms & Reimagining Futures in the (Post-)COVID World FEBRUARY 26, 2021 • 10:00am–4:40pm

What gendered lives are valued and which are made expendable? How can we better understand and appreciate our local and global interdependencies? Join feminist scholars and activists for a series of panels reflecting on our current historical moment. Drawing from contexts across the globe, we consider how life has been valued and devalued, the contours of our global interdependence, and how we can imagine and build just and sustainable futures. The Transnational Feminisms Conference is co-sponsored by the Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation; Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU; Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU; SouthAsia | NYU; and the New York Center for Global Asia.

Keynote Speaker:

Inderpal Grewal is Professor Emerita in the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Her ongoing projects include essays on gender, violence and counterinsurgency, and a book project on masculinity and bureaucracy in postcolonial India.

Agenda:

10:00am–10:45am • OPENING & KEYNOTE SPEAKER with Dean Julie Mostov, Lisa Coleman, and Inderpal Grewal
“Towards a Deep Pluralism: Feminist Futures in Patriarchal Nationalisms”

10:45am–12:15pm • PANEL ON EXPENDABILITY with Jacqueline Bishop, Natasha Iskander, Dina Siddiqi, and Mitra Rastegar
What gendered lives are valued or devalued? How is the protection of some mobilized to make other lives expendable?

12:30pm–1:15pm • LUNCH CONVERSATIONS
All attendees are invited to join a Breakout Room for a facilitated discussion.

1:15pm–2:45pm • PANEL ON INTERDEPENDENCE/SOLIDARITY with Shivangi Shrivastava, Crystal Parikh, and Meryleen Mena. Moderated by Minu Tharoor
How can we better understand and appreciate our local and global interdependencies? What is feminist solidarity in the context of such economic, political, and military interdependence and inequality?

3:00pm–4:30pm • PANEL ON TRANSFORMATION with Rada Ivekovic, Cecilia Palmeiro, Zahra Ali, and Ather Zia. Moderated by Gayatri Gopinath
What are the possibilities for transformation growing out of this historic year and drawing from transnational feminist praxis?

4:30pm–4:40pm • CONCLUDING THOUGHTS with Dean Julie Mostov

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UM DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

The University of Michigan is launching a regular series of Research Webinars in Sikh and Punjab Studies. Each webinar will be centered around 2 or 3 scholarly presentations/lectures followed by Q&A. The first webinar will take place on Saturday, January 30th, 2021 starting at 9.00 a.m. sharp. Speakers for the first meeting include:

Session 1: 9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. EST

(i) Professor Ian Talbot (University of Southampton, UK);
Paper Title: “Region, Religion and Locality: Rethinking the Punjab Unionist Party 1923-1947”

Session 2: 10:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. EST
(ii) Professor Gurharpal Singh (Emeritus – University of London, SOAS)
Paper Title: “The Making of the Indian Constitution and the Sikhs: A preliminary analysis”

Session 3: 11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST
(iii) Professor Ilyas Ahmad Chattha (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
Paper Title: “Border Cities: Partition and Contraband trades between Lahore and Amritsar”PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT

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The Master of Arts in South Asia Studies at Columbia University

The MA in South Asia Studies at Columbia University offers students an interdisciplinary curriculum that may be tailored to their individual interests and goals. The curriculum combines core seminars with a specialization (at least four courses) in an area of focus chosen by the student, and electives in an array of fields across Columbia University. The MA may be completed in as little as one year of full-time study; students may attend part-time as well.

Students, working with the MA Director, may shape an area of focus on a topic (Gender, Sustainabilty, Visual Culture, etc.), on a country or region, or a discipline, or an historical period, according to their individual research interests, or may build a broad knowledge of South Asia across multiple disciplines as a foundation for future graduate study.

Visit our Website at <https://sai.columbia.edu/> for information about the MA program, the South Asia Institute, and Columbia University. Contact the MA Program in South Asia Studies

For additional information and questions about the Master of Arts in South Asia Studies, and to discuss how the MA can be used to meet your research and training goals, please contact Professor Katherine Ewing, at ke2131@columbia.edu.