FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS:
RETHINKING
SOUTH ASIA
MAY
3-4, 2OO2
UC SANTA CRUZ
KRESGE 159
This Conference addresses current geopolitical formations of South Asia through an investigation of issues of social justice, legal jurisprudence, and religious intolerance in the region. In doing so, we seek to explore what constitutes the subjects and studies of the terrain of "South Asia," especially within the current volatile political atmosphere in the region. Central to the mutually informing discourses of gender and history in rethinking the concept-metaphor of "South Asia" will be an added discussion of questions of borders, diasporas, migrations, nationalisms, and militarisms. UC participants at the conference will include:
Radhika Mongia (UC Santa
Cruz), Vanita Seth (UC Santa Cruz), Anjali Arondekar (UC Santa Cruz), Piya Chatterjee
(UC Riverside), Parama Roy (UC Riverside), Saloni Mathur (UCLA), Gayatri Gopinath
(UC Davis), Rosemary George (UC San Diego), Madhavi Sunder (UC Davis), Raka
Ray (UC Berkeley), Lawrence Cohen (UC Berkeley), Nayan Shah (UC San Diego),
Bishnupriya Ghosh (UC Davis), and Bhaskar Sarkar (UC Santa Barbara). Other participating
scholars include: Kamala Visweswaran (University of Texas, Austin), Indrani
Chatterjee (Rutgers University), Purnima Mankekar (Stanford University), Mrinalini
Sinha (Penn State), Malathi De Alwis (New School), Geeta Patel (Wellesley College),
Paola Bacchetta (University of Kentucky), Akhil Gupta (Stanford University),
Sunaina Maira (University of Massachusetts), Anindyo Roy (Colby College), and
Banu Subra-maniam (University of Massachusetts).
The conference will begin at 9:00 AM on May 3rd, and conclude at 5:00 PM on May 4th.
For further information,
contact: Anjali Arondekar, Department of Women’s Studies, UC Santa Cruz
(aarondek@cats.ucsc.edu). Co-Sponsored by the UC Humanities Research Institute,
the Institute for Humanities Research, the Center for Cultural Studies, the
South Asian Studies Initiative, the Religion and Culture Research Cluster, the
Ad Hoc Faculty Committee on Current Events, the Center for Justice, Tolerance
and Community, the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, the
Graduate Division, the Asia-Pacific-America Research Cluster, and the departments
of Anthropology, Literature, Sociology, and Women’s Studies.
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