CFP: Gender, Violence, Honour in South Asia (March 28)
Deepti Misri
conference" :) viz. coming up very soon. I'm casting about for two
panelists who can cough up a 400 word abstract in the next 6 days.
Please do forward to anyone who'd be interested.
CONFERENCE: 36th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of
Wisonsin, Madison
PANEL: Gender, Violence and Honour
PANEL DEADLINE: March 28th
CONFERENCE DEADLINE: April 1st
This panel would focus on gendered violence and patriarchal notions of
honour in South Asia. We would like to investigate how gender and
violence intersect with state, tribe, family and nation.
Two of the papers on this panel are focusing on family violence during
Partition, and on the rape of lower caste women by upper caste men in
the Lahula tribe in India. We are looking for one or two other
panelists.
Papers may engage with representations of gendered violence ranging
from cultural texts such as films, literary works and media
representations, to historical and ethnographic work. This panel is
not limited to literary scholars. Interdisciplinary work is strongly
encouraged.
Possible papers might address, but are not restricted to:
· Violence against women in stratified tribes or caste communities,
where women's bodies are deployed in contradictory ways
· Honour-related violence within and between communities-including
crimes motivated in order to recover honour or to strip honour
· Violence against men-including sexual violence such as circumcision
and rape, or other forms of violence that often remain invisible in
the interest of individual or community honour
Interested participants please send a 400-word abstract to Himika
Bhattacharya hbha...@uiuc.edu and Deepti Misri mi...@uiuc.edu by
March 28th.
Deepti Misri
PhD Candidate
Department of English
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign