The Program in Women's and Gender Studies at MIT presents
The McMillan-Stewart Lecture on Women in the Developing World
Gender, Globalization, and Development in China and India
Speakers:
Professors Lin Chun and Uma Chakravarty
Thursday April, 10th
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Building 10-105, MIT Vannevar Bush Room
Lin Chun teaches politics and history in East Asian Studies
at New York University. She has also researched and taught for
several years at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and at the
London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author
of The British New Left (1993) and The Transformation of Chinese
Socialism (2006), and the editor of China I, II and III (2000) and,
in Chinese, Women: The Longest Revolution (1997), an anthology of
feminist classics.
Uma Chakravarti is a feminist historian who has taught
history at Miranda House, University College for Women, Delhi
University. She works on gender caste and labor in India. She is the
author of Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita
Ramabai (1998); Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens (2002);
Everyday Lives, Everyday Histories: Beyond the Kings and Brahmanas
of Ancient India (2006). Professor Chakravarty has been associated
with movements for democratic rights and women's rights since the 1970s.
Free and open to the general public.
Sponsors:
Women and Gender Studies, Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies
The MIT Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies.
Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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