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Language as Violence or Possibility: Caste and Gender in the Writings of Urmila Pawar

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Language as Violence or Possibility: Caste and Gender in the Writings of Urmila Pawar

Center for Literary and Comparative Studies | College of Arts and Humanities | English Thursday, March 6, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Tawes Hall, 2115

Please join us for a Petrou lecture by Professor Ulka Anjaria of Brandeis University titled "Language as Violence or Possibility: Caste and Gender in the Writings of Urmila Pawar." This event is part of the Bebe Koch Petrou Lecture Series.

About the Speaker:

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Ulka Anjaria is Professor of English and Director of the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University. Her research interests include South Asian literatures and film, postcolonial literature and theory and the global novel. She has published widely. Her most recent publications include Reading India Now (2018); Understanding Bollywood: The Grammar of Hindi Cinema (2022), and an anthology of critical essays The Oxford Handbook of Indian Literature, co-edited with Anjali Nerlekar (2024). 

 

Add to Calendar 03/06/25 17:00:00 03/06/25 18:00:00 America/New_York Language as Violence or Possibility: Caste and Gender in the Writings of Urmila Pawar

Please join us for a Petrou lecture by Professor Ulka Anjaria of Brandeis University titled "Language as Violence or Possibility: Caste and Gender in the Writings of Urmila Pawar." This event is part of the Bebe Koch Petrou Lecture Series.

About the Speaker:

Headshot of Ulka Anjaria

Ulka Anjaria is Professor of English and Director of the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University. Her research interests include South Asian literatures and film, postcolonial literature and theory and the global novel. She has published widely. Her most recent publications include Reading India Now (2018); Understanding Bollywood: The Grammar of Hindi Cinema (2022), and an anthology of critical essays The Oxford Handbook of Indian Literature, co-edited with Anjali Nerlekar (2024). 

 

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