Gender, Development and State Violence in Adivasi India - Talk by Dr. Ilina Sen, Friday, 26th April 2013

[Amrita Hazra]

Association for India’s Development Berkeley, Center For South Asian Studies and Women’s Earth Alliance 

                                                                                   Present

Gender, Development and State Violence in Adivasi India

Dr. Ilina Sen 

Professor of Women’s Studies

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India

Venue: Suite 460 (4th Floor)

David Brower Center

2150 Allston Way

Berkeley

Date: April 26th

Friday

Time: 6.00pm

The event is free and open to public. Please call 510 545 2727 to enter the David Brower Center after 6 pm

For more information, check out http://www.womensearthalliance.org/, http://berkeley.aidindia.org/ and http://southasia.berkeley.edu/

For over three decades, Dr. Ilina Sen has been associated with numerous civil society and women’s movements in India. She co-founded Rupantar, a civil society group in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh in 1994 along with her husband, Dr. Binayak Sen, to promote indigenous (adivasi) knowledge, health, education and conserve biodiversity. The NGO undertakes programs such as, a village clinic in a malaria endemic area, an agricultural program focused on organic farming and preservation of indigenous biodiversity, program on food security and distribution systems, and several women’s empowerment initiatives, including providing resources for victims of domestic violence.

She has authored several books on marginalized communities and the women’s movement in India - "A Space within the Struggle: Women's Participation in people's Struggles", "The migrant women of Chhattisgarh", "The Women's Movement in India". Together, both Ilina and Binayak have worked for more than three decades among some of India’s most impoverished and socially stigmatized populations (miners, peasants and India’s indigenous groups) on issues of health, livelihood and civil liberties.

Dr. Ilina Sen is currently is a professor of Women's Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India.

[Amrita Hazra]

Association for India’s Development Berkeley, Center For South Asia Studies and Women’s Earth Alliance     

                                                                                  Present

Gender, Development and State Violence in Adivasi India

Dr. Ilina Sen 

Professor of Women’s Studies

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India

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Venue: Suite 460 (4th Floor)

David Brower Center

2150 Allston Way

Berkeley

Date: April 26th

Friday

Time: 6.00pm

The event is free and open to public. Please call 510 545 2727 to enter the David Brower Center after 6 pm

For more information, check out https://www.facebook.com/events/367331960042301/

http://www.womensearthalliance.org/, http://berkeley.aidindia.org/ and http://southasia.berkeley.edu/

For over three decades, Dr. Ilina Sen has been associated with numerous civil society and women’s movements in India. She co-founded Rupantar, a civil society group in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh in 1994 along with her husband, Dr. Binayak Sen, to promote indigenous (adivasi) knowledge, health, education and conserve biodiversity. The NGO undertakes programs such as, a village clinic in a malaria endemic area, an agricultural program focused on organic farming and preservation of indigenous biodiversity, program on food security and distribution systems, and several women’s empowerment initiatives, including providing resources for victims of domestic violence.

She has authored several books on marginalized communities and the women’s movement in India - "A Space within the Struggle: Women's Participation in people's Struggles", "The migrant women of Chhattisgarh", "The Women's Movement in India". Together, both Ilina and Binayak have worked for more than three decades among some of India’s most impoverished and socially stigmatized populations (miners, peasants and India’s indigenous groups) on issues of health, livelihood and civil liberties.

She currently is a professor of Women's Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India.