Workshop II: Doing Feminisms in the Academy
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In February 2018, the University of Edinburgh hosted the second key workshop, which encompassed a second full week of activities, such as a feminist walk of Edinburgh and a visit to the Scottish Parliament. This workshop built upon the relationships, discussions, and ideas developed during the first week together in Delhi.
You can view the programme of the visit and workshop abstracts from the workshop.
Workshop programme and abstracts
Revisit some of the key events from the workshop:
Prof Krishna Menon delivers the Chrystal Macmillan Lecture on Feminist Explorations of Contemporary South Asia: Possibilities and Challenges. In this lecture, Prof Menon focuses on feminist politics in South Asia, deconstructing the intractable linkage between nationalism, state and gender in this region as part of vital feminist inquiry.
Video Recording of Prof Menon's Lecture on Feminist Explorations of Contemporary South Asia
- 'Working Within the Academy as Feminists: A North-South Dialogue' Roundtable
Chaired by Dr Radhika Govinda, this roundtable focuses on how feminist knowledge influenced dominant thinking and transformed teaching and learning practices in Northern and Southern contexts, among other questions. Prof Maria do Mar Pereira (University of Warwick) delivered the keynote for this roundtable.
Video Recording of 'Working Within the Academy as Feminists: A North-South Dialogue'
Excerpt from 'Working Within the Academy as Feminists' Roundtable
- 'Teaching and Tackling Violence Against Women: Perspectives from India and the UK' Panel Discussion
Organised by Prof Fiona Mackay, this panel of experts from India and Scotland, UK discussed the challenges and dilemmas of teaching about, raising awareness of, and strategizing to tackle gender based violence. It explored the links between feminists in the Academy and anti-violence women’s movements South and North, as well as reflecting on institutional developments in the Higher Education sector to tackle violence against women on campus.
- "An Evening of Feminism and Creative Resistance"
Featuring Prof Sumangala Damodaran's lecture-demonstration on songs of protests from India, poetry by Scottish poet Nadine Aisha Jassat and from our very own, Sarah Golightley, whose poetry centers on disability.
Video recording of "An Evening of Feminism and Creative Resistance"