May 2015 – Gender and the Colonial

By Akanksha Mehta|May 30, 2015|Conferences, May 2015 - Gender and the Colonial|0 comments

In a period where gender is increasingly deployed via international and national policy initiatives, the Centre will present scholarship that analyses the role of gender (performance, embodiment, histories, constructions, deviations) in the persistence and legacies of colonial tropes, as well as academic voices that complicate expected understandings and meanings of gender through the study of the colonial and vice versa. The conference will provide a cross- and inter- disciplinary space

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May 2015 – Gender and the Colonial

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May 2015 – Gender and the Colonial – A Review of the Conference

By Akanksha Mehta|May 28, 2015|Conferences, May 2015 - Gender and the Colonial|0 comments

CGS PhD candidate and photographer Akanksha Mehta reviewed and reported on the Gender and the Colonial conference for the Spring Summer 2015 Newsletter of the Postcolonial Studies Association 

May 2015 – Gender and the Colonial

By Akanksha Mehta|May 28, 2015|Conferences, May 2015 - Gender and the Colonial|0 comments

Gender and the Colonial CGS Biennial Conference  May 2015 SOAS, University of London  View the Conference Poster here Draft Programme View the SOAS page for the event here Opening keynote: Professor Oyeronke Oyewumi (Stony Brook University, New York) Unlearning the Lessons of Coloniality: Exhuming Subjugated Knowledge and Liberating Marginalized Epistemes Keynote: Professor Dianne Otto (Melbourne Law School) Justice Beyond the Law: People’s Tribunals and the Politics of Listening Closing keynote: Professor

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May 2015 – Gender and the Colonial – Photographs of the Keynotes

By Akanksha Mehta|May 20, 2015|Conferences, May 2015 - Gender and the Colonial|0 comments

Dr Gina Heathcote introducing the conference Professor Nadje Al-Ali introducing the keynote speaker Professor Oyeronke Oyewumi Professor Oyeronke Oyewumi Professor Diane Otto with Dr Rachel Harrison and Dr Rahul Rao  Professor Diane Otto Professor Ratna Kapur 

May 2015 – Gender and the Colonial – Photographs from the Panels

By Akanksha Mehta|May 19, 2015|Conferences, May 2015 - Gender and the Colonial|0 comments

May 2015 – Gender and the Colonial – Roundtable on Queer Theory

By Akanksha Mehta|May 18, 2015|Conferences, May 2015 - Gender and the Colonial|0 comments

May 2015 – Gender and the Colonial – Film Screenings

By Akanksha Mehta|May 17, 2015|Conferences, May 2015 - Gender and the Colonial|0 comments

Mardistan (Macholand) by Harjant Gill