BU's WGS Sponsoring "Of Pitfalls and Possibilities: The Case of India and Feminist Anti-Rape Organizing Across Difference"

We are pleased to report that Boston University's Women's Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program (WGS) is sponsoring a timely event titled "Of Pitfalls and Possibilities: The Case of India and Feminist Anti-Rape Organizing Across Difference." The event will be co-sponsored by GaIDI (Gender and International Development Initiatives) of the Women's Studies Research Center (WSRC) at Brandeis University.

Boston University's own Professor Deborah Belle will introduce the event speaker, Dr. Debotri Dhar - a 2013-2014 Visiting Scholar at BU's WGS. Dr. Dhar's research examines the relationship between rape, suicide and the postcolonial state, and explores such themes as gender, caste and class; silence and subaltern speech; culture, rights, and the nation; women's agency; transnational feminism and egalitarian justice. Dr. Dhar holds a Masters in Women's Studies from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers. Please join us for this event on Friday, November 15th, at 3:00pm in SCI Rm 117 (Metcalf Science Building), 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.

After her lecture, Dr. Dhar will give a reading from her recent book: Postcards from Oxford: Stories of Women and Travel. The reception will be held at WGS, 704 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 102, Boston. Books to be signed by the author will be available for purchase!

"Patriarchy, Power, and Paradox: Dreaming Gender Equality and Development" now published!

Some news: a book of the Pardee Center's South Asia 2060 Project here at Boston University, in which we participated, is now published! The peer-reviewed volume is South Asia 2060: Envisioning Regional Futures. 

Shahla Haeri and Brenda Gael McSweeney co-authored the chapter entitled "Patriarchy, Power, and Paradox: Dreaming Gender Equality and Development". Details of the anthology, edited by Adil Najam and Moeed Yusuf, are on the Anthem Press website.