OSUN, Hopscotch Reading Room Presents
Changing The Subject Book Launch
Friday, April 21, 2023
Hopscotch Reading Room
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm CET/GMT+1
The OSUN-funded Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice event series continues with an off-campus event. On 21 April 2023, Professor Srila Roy (University of the Witwatersrand) will present her latest book, Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India (Duke University Press 2022), at the Hopscotch Reading Room in Berlin Wedding (Gerichtstrasse 45). The book launch will be moderated by BCB Migration Studies professor Agata Lisiak. Everyone is welcome!7:30 pm – 9:00 pm CET/GMT+1
Srila Roy is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and 2022 Hunt-Simes Visiting Professor in Sexuality Studies at the University of Sydney. Her long-standing research and teaching expertise is in the area of transnational feminist studies. Her latest books are the co-edited, Intimacy and Injury: in the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa (Manchester University Press, 2022) and the sole-authored, Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India (Duke University Press, 2022). She is a co-editor of the journal Feminist Theory and the recipient of the inaugural FTGS Global South Feminist Scholar Award from the International Studies Association (ISA). At Wits, she leads the Governing Intimacies project, which promotes new scholarship on gender and sexuality in Southern Africa and India, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm CET/GMT+1
Location: Hopscotch Reading Room