This fall, CENES and various UBC Departments will welcome Yuliya Kovaliv, Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada, to UBC’s Point Grey campus for a talk and Q&A. The Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies (CENES) in collaboration with the Centre for European Studies, the Office of Global Engagement, the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, […]
Can an anti-caste movement politics found trans/queer histories? Using the framework of caste abolition and queer/trans legal struggles in South Asia, our workshop will offer some potential pathways for radical trans/queer/caste futurites. Two (rather ambitious!) questions will animate our gathering: How has the escalation of authoritarianism and religious violence in South Asia impacted queer/trans/caste projects […]
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 […]