Centre for Women's Studies, JNU

Centre for Women's Studies, JNU
invites you for a talk on:

Travelling Histories of Abortion:Populations, Reproductive Technologies, and Rights

Speaker:- Prof. Mytheli Sreenivas

Designated Professor and Chair Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University

Venue: Committee Room, School of Social Sciences I, JNU

Date: 16th January 2026
Time: 4:00 to 6:00 pm

Center for Women’s Studies, JNU
invites you to a talk on:

Understanding the "Preference" for Flexible Employment: Women in Co-working Spaces

by

Neetha N. (Professor, Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi)

Venue: School of Social Sciences- 1 Committee Room, JNU
Date: 11 December 2025
Time: 4-6 pm

Center for Women’s Studies, JNU
invites you to a talk on the book:

Criminal Law, Feminism and Emotions: Thinking through the Legal Unconscious

by

Dr. Latika Vashist (Associate Professor, Ambedkar University Delhi)

Venue: School of Social Sciences Committee Room, JNU
Date: 2 December 2025
Time: 4-6 pm

The Centre for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University &
Zubaan Publishers (Zubaan Books )

invite you to a book discussion on

Feminist Frames: Gender, Space and Violence in India by Mallarika Sinha Roy

Date: 28 August, 2025
Time: 4:00 to 6:00 pm
Venue: Committee Room, School of Social Sciences I, JNU

Speakers:
Anupama Roy, Professor, Centre for Political Studies, JNU

Paulomi Chakraborty, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay

Prathama Banerjee, Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

Chaired by G. Arunima, Professor, Centre for Women's Studies, JNU

The Centre for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

invites you to a talk

by Paulomi Chakraborty

Associate Professor of English,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
IIT Bombay

on "Prison Narratives of Nationalist Women in Mid-twentieth Century India"

Date: 26th August, 2025
Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Venue: Room 401, School of Social Sciences I, JNU

Center for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Invites you to a talk on:

The Politics of Gender in Post-Uprising Bangladesh

By

Dr. Nafisa Nipun Tanjeem
(Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Worcester State University)

Date: 18 July 2025
Time: 4 pm

Venue: Room No. 402
School of Social Sciences I, JNU

Centre for Women’s Studies, JNU
Invites you to a talk on:

Local Feminisms, Global Conversations:
The Self-Respecters’ Critical Engagement with Gender Equity

by Dr. S. Jeevanandam
Assistant Professor
Centre for Women’s Studies, JNU

In response to the limitations of mainstream feminism, alternative movements have emerged across the world—such as women of color feminism globally and Dalit feminism in India. These movements enrich the feminist cause by addressing intersecting forms of oppression and by critically engaging with dominant narratives. A particularly notable example is the Self-Respect Movement in the colonial Madras Presidency, where a collective of women known as the “self-respecters” voiced powerful and distinct feminist concerns. Operating in the midst of political upheaval, their strategies, perspectives, and modes of articulation were rooted in their socio-cultural context and diverged from mainstream feminist frameworks. This presentation aims to explore and engage with these important contributions.

Date: April 29, 2025
Time: 4:00 pm—6:00 pm
Venue: Room 401,
School of Social Sciences I, JNU

Centre For Women's Studies, JNU invites you to a talk on:

Resisting silence and stigma: Mothering and sexwork

By Irma Kondrataite,

Deputy Director
Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies.

Vilnius University, Lithuania.

Date :- April 22, 2025 (tomorrow)
Time:- 4:00 PM- 6:00 PM
Venue:- Room 401, School Of Social Sciences 1, JNU

Centre for Women Studies, JNU

Invites you to a talk on:

Operating Together: Reflections on Policewomen, Cinematic Representations, and Indian Feminism through Soni

Pooja Satyogi

Pooja Satyogi teaches at the School of Legal and Socio-Political Studies, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University. She is an anthropologist and a political scientist with research interest in policing and urban governance, histories of jurisdiction, and security and surveillance studies.

Date: March 26, 2025
Time: 11 am - 1:00 pm
Venue: Room 401, School of Social Science I, JNU.

Abstract:

The presence of an external threat, a sexual harasser, attempting harassment in a public space, becomes central to the plot of the film Soni (2018)—a recent Hindi film about two women police officials that was released on Netflix. The film focuses on “anti-eve teasing” (sic) drives in Delhi, in which undercover women cops look for sexual harassers. Soni is part of a new genre of films and TV series in India where we see women working together as part of a single workspace. Women working together, the paper argues, has been an uninterrogated terrain in Hindi cinema, with singularity being the hallmark of the post-liberalisation cinema as well. In the genre of Indian women cop films as well Soni marks an important point of departure because it allows us to see the work-relationship between women, who are deployed as public women to protect other women. These, ostensibly, force-wielding labouring bodies, the paper argues, are the untheorized bodies of Indian feminism, with the policing question in the sub-continent settled with its always-already imbrication with violence. The figure of the policewoman poses challenges for Indian feminism that desires women’s protection and safety, but without interrogating its entanglements with the world of bodies that work as shock absorbers.