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Conversations on South Asia with Ishita Pande

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Tuesday, September 13 | 12:15–1:15 PM EDT | Zoom

Register: https://dartgo.org/conversations-pande

How did expanding ideas of childhood give rise to new forms of colonial governance? How did the need to protect children shape understandings of modern sexuality? And why did the child become a dominant political concern in the era of rising anticolonial nationalism? 

Looking at the ideas and ideologies surrounding the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929, historian Ishita Pande (Queen’s University) explores these questions in Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937 (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Now available in paperback (use code HIS1222 to receive a 20% discount), the book investigates colonial policies, local practices, and the gendered discourses that shaped them both. 

Join us to learn more!

Kristine Alexander (University of Lethbridge) and Susan Pearson (Northwestern University) will be joining the author for this conversation. 

Elizabeth Lhost will moderate.

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Conversations on South Asia is sponsored by the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund, the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program, and the History Department at Dartmouth College.

This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome to attend.

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April 6: Conversations on South Asia with Durba Mitra

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Join us on Tuesday, April 6 from 4–5:15 pm EDT for the final event in our series this year to hear Durba Mitra (Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute | Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University) discuss her latest book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought (Princeton University Press, 2020).

Mitra’s work examines how so-called “deviant female sexuality” became foundational to the colonial knowledge-production project and identifies the concept of the “prostitute” as a key site for British and elite Indian men’s attempts to “know” India. Prachi Deshpande has praised the book for being “a valuable contribution to the global history of sexuality” and Omnia El Shakry calls it “an indispensable book for all scholars of gender and sexuality.”

Mingwei Huang (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Dartmouth College) and Jacqueline Wernimont (Digital Humanities and Social Engagement, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Dartmouth College) will be joining us as discussants, and Elizabeth Lhost (History, Society of Fellows, Dartmouth College) will moderate the discussion.

Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/indiansexlife

All are welcome.

Support for the Conversations on South Asia series is provided by the Dartmouth Society of Fellows, the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund, the Department of History, and the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program.