Upcoming SARI Seminar: Dr Ira Raja and Dr Rajni Palriwala (9 Feb 2018)

Time for the Fruit to Fall? Deathbed Narratives in Modern Indian Literature & Morality and the Labour of Care ā€“ SARI Adda Seminar

Date: Friday, 9 February, 2018
Time: 12-2pm
Venue: Institutes Boardroom, 1.12 Coombs Extension, 9 Fellows Road, Australian National University

To begin our Adda seminar series of 2018 we have two superb lectures ā€“ back to back! Dr Ira Raja (University of Delhi), whose talk is titled: ā€˜Time for the Fruit to Fall? Deathbed Narratives in Modern Indian Literatureā€™, followed by Rajni Palriwala, Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, whose talk is titled ā€˜Morality and the Labour of Careā€™,

Registration is free and essential on EventbriteĀ 


Ira Raja
, PhD (La Trobe), is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Delhi. Her research areas include postcolonial literature and theory, cosmopolitanism, globalisation studies, literary gerontology, and urban cultures. Her work has appeared inĀ South Asian History and Culture,Ā Thesis Eleven,Ā South Asia,Ā Design Issues, and many other journals. She has co-editedĀ Grey Areas: An Anthology of Contemporary Indian Fiction on Ageing, Delhi: OUP, 2010;Ā An Endless Winterā€™s Night: Mother-Daughter Narratives from India, (with Kay Souter), Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2010, andĀ The Table is Laid: Oxford Anthology of South Asian Food Writing, (with John Thieme), Delhi: OUP, 2007.

Rajni Palriwala, Ph.D. (Delhi) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Delhi. Her research interests include gender, kinship and marriage, care, citizenship, and the state,feminist theory and politics, agrarian and development studies and comparative sociology. She has authoredĀ Changing Kinship, Family and Gender Relations in South Asia: Processes, Trends and IssuesĀ (1994) and co-authoredĀ Care, Culture and Citizenship: Revisiting the Politics of the Dutch Welfare StateĀ (with C, I. Risseeuw and K. Ganesh, 2005). She has co-editedĀ Marriage, Migration, and GenderĀ (with P. Uberoi, 2008),Ā Shifting Circles of Support: Contextualising Kinship and Gender Relations in South Asia and Sub-Saharan AfricaĀ (with C. I. Risseeuw, 1996), andĀ StrucĀ­tures and Strategies: Women, Work and Family in AsiaĀ (with L. Dube, 1990).

http://sari.anu.edu.au/time-for-the-fruit-to-fall-deathbed-narratives-in-modern-indian-literature-sari-adda-seminar/

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