The Law in my Kitchen: Questions about Gender, Agency, and the State
IMPRI Special Lecture on The Law in my Kitchen: Questions about Gender, Agency, and the State by Madhavi Menon.
IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi invites you to an IMPRI Special Lecture – #WebPolicyTalk on
The Law in my Kitchen: Questions about Gender, Agency, and the State
Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:
Date: March 4, 2021; Thursday
Time: 4 PM IST
Platform: Zoom and Facebook Live
Speaker:
Dr Madhavi Menon, Professor of English; Director, Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality (CSGS), Ashoka University
Madhavi Menon is Professor of English at Ashoka University. She earned her Bachelors and Masters in English from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, where she stood first in College in her BA, and was a University gold-medalist in her M.A.
She completed her PhD from Tufts University. Prior to joining Ashoka, she taught at Ithaca College and American University.
Her current book project is titled The Law of Desire (forthcoming with Speaking Tiger, 2021).
Professor Menon’s research interests include, among other things, Queer Theory, Renaissance Literature, and Shakespeare. Broadly, Professor Menon works with questions of sexuality, desire, gender, politics, and identity.
Dr Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Emeritus Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi
Discussants:
Dr Usha Mudiganti, Assistant Professor, School of Letters, Ambedkar University
Ms Akanksha Agrahari, Ms Prerna Sengupta, Ms Riddhi Bang, The Language Rights Blog
Registration and Facebook Live Link for The Law in my Kitchen: Questions about Gender, Agency, and the State
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Media Coverage:
- Law in my Kitchen: Notion of Privacy in the Context of Gender, Body, Desire, Sexuality; Kashmir Times
- Law in my kitchen: Notion of privacy in the context of gender, body, desire, sexuality; Counterview
- The Law In My Kitchen: Questions About Gender, Agency And The State; Youth Ki Awaaz
- Law in my kitchen: Notion of privacy in the context of gender, body, desire, sexuality; Daily Hunt
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