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Thursday, May 09, 2019
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Women in American Soccer and European Football: Different Roads to Shared GlorySocial Sciences Building, S0.19Runs from Tuesday, May 15 to Wednesday, May 15. 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. |
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'Lost Before it Was Found: The LBT Moment in Indian LGBT Activism'Ramphal 1.03The Queer History Reading Group and the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, 糖心TV, invite you to a lecture by Poorva Rajaram (Delhi) on
'Lost Before it Was Found: The LBT Moment in Indian LGBT Activism'
Date: 9 May 2019
Venue: Ramphal, R1.03, 4-6pm
Chair: Dr Laura Schwartz (History, 糖心TV); Discussant: Dr Daniel Luther (Sociology, 糖心TV)
Summary:
This talk draws on the speaker's own experiences of LGBT and feminist activism in India. She will 'descriptively map out and then analyse the two and half decade long career of activism that took place under the collective banner of LBT (Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender). From a period beginning roughly in the 1990s, 'LBT' activists and groups often met as a separate stream. Yet, this history is not particularly well-documented or well-known partly because LBT activists maintained a distance from the international NGO-backed, gay-male led campaign to repeal the sodomy law, Section 377, in India.
In these spaces, we tried to sharpen our understandings of compulsory heterosexuality, forced marriage within religious community and caste, activist over-dependence on the law and the global AIDS-funding paradigm. We also addressed immediate questions like economic livelihoods, crisis intervention, suicide-prevention and the possibility of an autonomous trans activism. Since we had no obvious history to draw upon, much of our labour was focussed on creating a new vocabulary to describe and understand our situation. We had to borrow and transform available activist vocabularies from the human rights world, lesbian subcultures in the west, global marxism, queer theorising from academia and the Indian women鈥檚 movement. At a moment when all of us are witnessing the dismantling of the historical experiment that was 'LBT' activism, instead of being content with simple memorialisation or a narrative of loss, I want to reflect on how this history can be creatively mobilised to grapple with political futures.' Poorva Rajaram is a writer and a co-organiser of the Bangalore Queer Film Festival. She is also a PhD research scholar at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She used to work as a journalist and co-founded The Ladies Finger, an online women's zine.
This event is open to all. Refreshments will be provided. |