Gender Justice/Injustice in South Asia: Feminism, Protest, and the Neo-Liberal State
SOAS South Asia Institute
The SOAS South Asia Institute will be holding two gender focused events on the 12th and 13th February 2015. Please find information below and on the web.
**Registration required. Limited seats available**
Symposium : Gender Justice/Injustice in South Asia: Feminism, Protest, and the Neo-Liberal State
Date: 13 February 2015, 9.30am – 17.30pm
Room: V111, Vernon Square Campus. Directions below.
Programme
View programme online: www.soas.ac.uk/south-asia-institute/events/workshops/13feb2015-gender-justiceinjustice-in-south-asia-feminism-protest-and-the-neo-liberal-state.html
View programme online: www.soas.ac.uk/south-asia-institute/events/workshops/13feb2015-gender-justiceinjustice-in-south-asia-feminism-protest-and-the-neo-liberal-state.html
Vernon Square Campus Address
SOAS, University of London
London WC1X 9EW
London WC1X 9EW
About
This symposium brings together leading scholars and activists addressing a number of areas, including women’s access to and safety in the public space; the politics of gender in the context of caste and communal violence; neo-liberal notions of ‘rights’; the Indian and Pakistan states’ attempts to intervene in, regulate and control sexuality; religious supremacism and cultural conservatism; and feminist mobilization and protests.
The intention of this symposium is to not once again collude in reproducing the spectacle of gender violence in South Asia, but rather to critically engage with movements, policies and processes and to further our understandings of the systemic nature of gender injustice, how it is being simultaneously deepened, transformed and extended by the interventions of the neoliberal state, and the multiple ways in which it is being resisted.
Free Registration
Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.
**All successful applicants will receive an email by 11th February 2015 confirming their place. ***
Conveners:
Dr. Navtej Purewal, Deputy Director, SOAS South Asia Institute, University of London
Dr. Kalpana Wilson, Senior Research Fellow, Gender Institute, LSE
Sponsor:
This event has been organised by the SOAS South Asia Institute in collaboration with the LSE Gender Justice Institute.
Punjab Research Group 
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