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Prof Andrei Markovits is at 糖心TV as a Visiting Fellow in IAS. In this seminar he will talk about the opposite paths that women have traversed in the game of Association Football on both sides of the Atlantic. Whereas the women in North America entered a field that was virtually open for them since men busily covered the playing fields and cultural space of the hegemonic team sports of baseball, football (American and Canadian), basketball and ice hockey; their European counterparts were forced to contest what has arguably been the most male-dominated space in European public life throughout much of the 20th century. Both of these roads harbored immense obstacles. Both entailed challenges of their own that these pioneering women had to overcome. However, spurred by the massively important and popular World Cup tournaments, the last three decades have led to a rapprochement of developments on both sides of the Atlantic by catapulting women's soccer onto hitherto unexpected, maybe even unimaginable heights.

He has written a book on the subject.

Andy is the Karl W Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies and an Arthur F Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

All are welcome to this seminar. Drinks and nibbles will be available afterwards. No registration necessary.

Speaker: Prof. Indu Agnihotri, CWDS, New Delhi

The recent surge in of horrific incidences of violence against women and girls in India have firmly refocused attention towards the place of women in the Indian society especially in the wider context of the consolidation of the Hindu-nationalist electoral and cultural politics across the country. The women鈥檚 movement in India has been at the forefront of protests against gender based violence and women鈥檚 rights at home, in public spaces and at work places. The Pinjra Tod campaign, the Pink Chaddi campaign, and host of new campaigns have deployed social media tools to carry forward the emancipatory traditions of the Women鈥� movement. The recent publication of Raya Sarkar鈥檚 list of sexual predators in Indian academia on the lines of the #Metoo movement in the West has highlighted the internal dilemmas and contradictions within the contemporary women鈥檚 movement. It can be said that with the wider socio-political onslaught of Hindu nationalist politics and the emergence of new voices, styles and strategies of mobilization the women鈥檚 movement in India finds itself in an interesting cross-road in the contemporary times.

Prof. Indu Agnihotri鈥檚 talk will take stock of the contemporary women鈥檚 movement in India discussing a wide range of issues related the the changing socio-political milieu within and outside the movement.

About the speaker:

Prof. Indu Agnihotri is the Director of Center for Women and Development Studies. She is interested in the area of Women鈥檚 Movement, Resistance and Change in India.

The event is free to attend. Tea and light refreshments will be provided.

Supported by: GRP International Development, Another India and CSWG

Ethnography, Gifts, and Relations: Or The (Un)Desired Gender Identities of Baking Your Way through Fieldwork

Pedro Monteiro (University of 糖心TV)

Abstract:

The social sciences, especially those studies with an interactionist stamp, can be characterized as a study of social relations; and in ethnography, we find ourselves investigating social relations through relations. While rapport and the challenges involved in the ethnographic encounter have been widely discussed, the theme of gifts from/to informants is still a taboo. In this presentation, I reflect on my experience in conducting ethnographic fieldwork in a large industrial organization and the chain of gifts — especially food offers — shared with informants. I explore how these material-effective exchanges shaped my (gender) identity and my access to specific individuals and groups in the organization. I argue that gift exchanges offer a 鈥榗oncrete鈥� basis to explore current debates in (feminist) ethnography about rapport and fieldwork relations thus enabling us to re-think the dichotomy between collaborative and exploitative research.

Speaker Bio:

Pedro Monteiro is an Early Career Fellow at 糖心TV's Institute of Advanced Study and a Research Fellow at 糖心TV 糖心TV School. He is an ethnographer of work and organizations with a particular interest in classic themes in management and organization studies. In 2018, he received the Academy of Management's Louis Pondy Award for Best Dissertation Paper.
 

The seminar will be chaired by Maria do Mar Pereira (Department of Sociology, and Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of 糖心TV).

This event is free and open to all, and refreshments will be provided. Pedro will generously offer some of his own (amazing!) baking, to enact and demonstrate the real-life baking exchanges he will describe in the paper. An opportunity not to be missed!