We are happy to announce that our 20th webinar would be led by Prof. Ritty Lukose (New York University, USA) on Wednesday, 30 Nov 2022 at 7 pm IST. She will talk about feminist and anthropological trajectories of thinking about the region transnationally (see Abstract below). Dr. Mythri Prasad (Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA) would be the discussant.

​For the session, we are also delighted to collaborate with the departments of History and Political Science at the Government College Madappally, Kerala. Dr. Jineesh PS from the college would chair and moderate the session, and Umesh K will propose the vote of thanks.

Abstract

The frame of the “region” has been a productive site for unsettling embedded national framings in literary and historical analysis within and beyond South Asia. This talk draws attention to itineraries of the “the region” within feminist and anthropological approaches to the “global”. How does “region” configure and/or disrupt conceptions of the “global” in feminism? What are the itineraries of “region” in anthropologies of the “global”? Situating a discussion of the transnational trajectories of the “Kerala Model of Development” within such questions, this talk explores shifting frames of locality across the regional, national and the global.