TAP | (Trans-) Bodies and Cultures

The Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality at Ashoka University, and the Center for Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University jointly present the webinar series called Theory and Practice: Transnational Conversations on Gender and Sexuality (TAP). TAP brings to you scholars and activists from around the world who can speak with one another about ideas of gender and sexuality.
This second panel this semester in the series will focus on (Trans-) Bodies and Cultures. ‘Trans-,’ as a prefix suggests movement and boundary-crossing. Most productively, it has also come to denote the mobility and transitions across genders and sexualities. How can we think about trans-ness trans-nationally and trans-culturally? This panel will focus on multiple ways of thinking about cross-border embodiments and movements through gender and sexuality by putting US and Indic understandings of transgendered and transsexual lives in conversation with one another.
For this session, we will joined by C. Riley Snorton, who is a Professor of English Language and Literature at University of Chicago (U.S.), Anindya Hajra, who is a transfeminist, transgender rights and social justice activist based in India, and Sayan Bhattacharya, who is a PhD candidate in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota and is a queer activist from West Bengal, India.
The session will be moderated by Professor Gayatri Gopinath, Director, CSGS NYU, who will enable a conversation between the three speakers for 40 minutes, followed by a 20 minutes Q&A with the audience.