The State of Gender Equality – #GenderGaps with Prof Pushpesh Kumar on Sexual Violence: Perspectivizing the Role of State
Gender Impact Studies Center (GISC) at IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi invites you to
The State of Gender Equality – #GenderGaps
Sexual Violence: Perspectivizing the Role of the State
Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:
Date: July 28, 2021
Time: 6 PM IST
Platform: Zoom and Facebook Live
Speaker:
Prof Pushpesh Kumar
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad
Pushpesh Kumar teaches sociology at the University of Hyderabad. He has edited the book, Sexuality, Abjection and Queer Existence in Contemporary India from Routledge and serves on the international advisory Board of the Community Development Journal published from OUP, UK, and Ireland. He was a British Academy Visiting Fellow in the Department of Anthropology. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, in 2009. He received M.N. Srinivas Memorial Prize for Young Sociologist from the Indian Sociological Society in 2007. As a pro-feminist thinker, he wrote in the Economic and Political Weekly’s special volume on Men and Feminism in India in 2015. In 2017, he was invited by the South Asia Centre, Syracuse University, Syracuse, to share his research on Queering Indian Sociology. His areas of interest include gender, sexuality, globalization and social changes, caste and kinship, and pedagogical practices in sociology and social sciences.
Chair:
Prof Vibhuti Patel
Former Professor, Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai
Discussants:
Prof Maitrayee Chaudhuri
Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi
Dr G. Sridevi
Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Hyderabad
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