Is Caste a Useful Category of Global Analysis?

Name: Is Caste a Useful Category of Global Analysis?
Start: 2022-05-05T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-05-05T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Harris Hall, 108

Thursday, May 5, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM CT

Harris Hall, 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

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Ania Loomba is the Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She researches and teaches early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and contemporary Indian literature and culture. Her recent publications include Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies: Gender, Race and Sexuality (co-edited with Melissa Sanchez; Routledge, 2016; essays on early modern global contact; on race and embodiment; caste and its implications for understanding racial philosophies, and race in modern India.