Between Empire and Globalization:
Reading the Present through Indian Feminisms
A one day conference at the University of Pennsylvania
Friday, March 24, 2006
Annenberg School for Communications (3620 Walnut Street, Room 500)
9:30: Light Breakfast
Morning Session: 9:45-12:30
Introduction: Ania Loomba (English, University of Pennsylvania) and Ritty Lukose (Education,
University of Pennsylvania)
Priyamvada Gopal (English, Cambridge University):
“Is Feminism Bad for Multiculturalism? On Offense and Sensibility”
Raka Ray (Sociology, University of California, Berkeley):
“Learning about Empire through Teaching Indian Feminism”
Nivedita Menon (Political Science, Delhi University):
“Feminism and Anti-Globalization Politics of the Right and Left in India”
Discussant: Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (History, University of Pennsylvania)
Lunch: 12:30-1:45
(please rsvp to haimanti@sas.upenn.edu by 3/20 for boxed lunch)
Afternoon Session: 1:45-4:00
Mrinalini Sinha (History, Pennsylvania State University):
“Feminist Genealogies: The Politics of Women in Late Colonial India”
Ritty Lukose (Education, University of Pennsylvania):
“Traversing Feminisms: Globalization and the Politics of Location”
Mary E. John (Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University):
“Naming the Present: Reframing ‘Globalisation’ in Contemporary Feminism”
Discussant: Anupama Rao (History, Barnard College)
Roundtable: 4:15-5:30
Including all participants, with invited guests Saadia Toor (Sociology, CUNY), Madhavi Kale
(History, Bryn Mawr College), Dina Siddiqi (The Alice Paul Center, University of
Pennsylvania); moderated by Ania Loomba (English, University of Pennsylvania)
This event is sponsored by the South Asia Center, University of Pennsylvania and co-sponsored by The
Alice Paul Center for Research on Women and Gender, The Graduate School of Education, the English
Department, and the Project for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communications,
University of Pennsylvania. If you have any questions, please contact Haimanti Banerjee
(haimanti@sas.upenn.edu).