COLLOQUIUM: TRANSNATIONAL SOUTH ASIA
“GENOCIDE/GENDER” KAMALA VISWESWARAN
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! ! ! Date: March 1 C&.+@!D!6.!!! ! ! Time: 4 pm ! Location: Merill Room 2120 Key Hall E2)#0&2'@!A+-&55!F22.!GBGH!I+$!J#55!! ! ! Kamala Visweswaran is ! Associate Professor of Anthropology at UT Austin and works on feminist ! ! theory and ethnography, South Asian social ! movements, ethnic and political conflict, human ! rights, colonial law, postcolonial theory, Transnational ! and Diaspora studies, and comparative South Asia ! and Middle East studies. She is the author of Fictions ! of Feminist Ethnography (Minnesota, 1994), Un/ ! common Cultures (Duke, 2010); and editor of ! Perspectives on Modern South ! Asia (Blackwell, 2011) ! and Everyday Occupations: Experiencing Militarism ! in South Asia and the Middle East (University of ! Pennsylvania Press, 2013). She is currently finishing a ! book on: “A Thousand Genocides Now: Gujarat in the ! ! ! ! I#.#5#! Y&%"+%"#-#'! &%! L%%2)&#0+! R-23+%%2-! 23! L'0(-26252*$! #0! MC! L1%0&'! Modern Imaginary of Violence.” !
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