Fwd: Remembering Priya Thangarajah: A Queer Feminist Festschrift | 10 December, 5pm | A Hybrid Event

[Manavi Atri]

Remembering Priya Thangarajah: A Queer Feminist Festschrift Ten years ago, we lost Priya Thangarajah — an aspiring young lawyer and activist who had worked both in India and her native Sri Lanka on issues of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, violence and human rights — when she took her life. Priya was a graduate of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, and Georgetown University, Washington DC, where she was also a Fulbright scholar. To commemorate her life and work, this Human Rights Day, we will revisit three reports Priya authored during her lifetime. Specialists will offer contemporary reflections on the themes they cover, to create a festschrift, a selection of deliberations on her legacy as a scholar. Date: 10 December 2025 (Wednesday) Time: 5:00pm onwards Venue: Ground Floor Conference Hall, Training Centre, NLSIU Bengaluru; and on Zoom These themes are: Queer couples and Habeas Corpus in India (co-authored with Ponni Arasu); Tamil - Muslim relations in Sri Lanka (co-authored with Mirak Raheem); and Legal protections for queer persons in Sri Lanka. We will also cover a fourth theme,  Queerness and mental health, with a focus on suicide. Our distinguished panel of specialists, which will reflect on Priya’s life and work, includes: Rumi Harish | Manavi Atri | Shreen Saroor | Sarala Emmanuel | Ermiza Tegal | Pasan Jayasinghe | Vinay Chandran | Kaushiki Rao This will be a hybrid event, with the in-person component at the National Law School, and a virtual arm on Zoom.   RSVP here! Please consider donating to the QAMRA Archival Project, NLSIU. Donate Copyright © 2025 QAMRA Archival Project at NLSIU, All rights reserved. You are part of our mailing list because you subscribed or showed interest in subscribing to our newsletter. Our mailing address is: QAMRA Archival Project at NLSIU Sri Narayan Rao Melgiri Memorial National Law Library, National Law School of India University, Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560072 India Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.