The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice 2024/25 Noted Scholars Series presents
This Noted Scholars event is part of the
GRSJ Welcome Back Gathering
12pm – 12:30pm: Welcome Back
12:30pm – 2:00pm: Noted Scholars Talk
2:00pm – 3:00pm: Light Refreshments, Entertainment & Socializing
Co-sponsors: Asian Studies, Centre for Migration Studies, Centre for Climate Justice, Geography, English Language & Literatures, and the UBC Public Humanities Hub.
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday, September 18, 12:00-3:00pm
Cecil Green Park House, UBC / Zoom Webinar
Please RSVP below in advance
ABSTRACT
Suturing histories of caste and sexuality to histories of dissent in South Asia, this talk rearranges the grammar of our ethical engagements with the past and present. At stake here are the historical vernaculars -the data- that found the evidentiary regimes of rights and representation for subaltern subjects. On offer here are figurations of andolan/protest, meditations that move between the heady inspirations of dissent and the stultifying violence of state practices. Andolan is after all a movement in Hindustani music, an alankar (combination/ornamentation of notes) that oscillates between one fixed note and its counterpart, touching, suffusing, all that lies in between. Let us imagine such an historical andolan together.
ABOUT
Arondekar is currently working on a third project, tentatively entitled, Oceanic Sex: Archives of Caste and Indenture, that couples the archival forms of indenture with the oceanic voyages of caste and sexuality.