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Class, Gender and Dalit Politics: A conversation between Gopal Guru and Anupama Rao

Lecture | April 4 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (CSAS Conference Room)

Speakers: Gopal Guru, Professor of Social and Political Theory, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Anupama Rao, Associate Professor of History, Barnard College

Moderator: Raka Ray, Professor of Sociology and South and Southeast Asia Studies, and Chair of the Center for South Asia Studies

Sponsor: Center for South Asia Studies

Gopal Guru is a professor at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in New Delhi. His research interests are on Indian Politics and contemporary social and political theory. He has published on issues of equality, social justice and dignity. His most recent edited work Humiliation: Claims and Context (Oxford University Press, 2009), a pioneering work in the field of political and moral theory, explores the complex and varied meanings, contexts, forms, and languages of humiliation within an interdisciplinary framework. While humiliation as a theme has found expression in both nationalist and socio-political thought in modern India, this is the first time it has been systematically studied.

Joining the conversation will be Anupama Rao, Associate Professor of History, Barnard College. Anupama Rao's research and teaching interests are in the history of anticolonialism; gender and sexuality studies; caste and race; historical anthropology, social theory, and colonial genealogies of human rights and humanitarianism. Her most recent work, The Caste Question (University of California Press, 2009) theorizes caste subalternity, with specific focus on the role of anti-caste thought (and its thinkers) in producing alternative genealogies of political subject-formation through the vernacularization of political universals. She has also written on the themes of colonialism and humanitarianism, and on non-Western histories of gender and sexuality.

Event Contact: 510-642-3608