[CSH Seminar] Dissonant Intimacies (S. Roy)
The Centre de Sciences Humaines is pleased to invite you to the CSH Seminar
by
Srila Roy
(University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
on
Dissonant Intimacies
Followed by a discussion with Papia Sengupta
On
Wednesday, 06 April 2026, from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm IST
At
Centre de Sciences Humaines
IFI-CSH conference room (ground floor)
2 Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Road, New Delhi – 110011
To register: Please fill out the registration FORM
Abstract:
This talk develops an approach to decolonising higher education from a global south feminist perspective. Situating my ideas and arguments in current calls to decolonise, I trace key social fault lines – around race, caste and nationalism – that have shaped specific institutional dynamics in higher education in India and South Africa. Just as the South African student movements prefigured calls to decolonise the university, a “decolonial Hindutva” acts as a cautionary tale for all committed to social justice. Frustrations around the decolonial turn do not prompt an abandoning of the concept, however. Rather, it inspires a different kind of curiosity and commitment when it comes to engaging the global South, in the name of decolonising.
Speaker:
Srila Roy is Professor and Head of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Her long-standing research and teaching expertise is in the area of transnational feminist studies. Her books include the award-winning Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India (Duke University Press, 2022). Her latest book Dissonant Intimacies is forthcoming in 2026 with Wits University Press.
For more info contact:
co[dot]lefevre[at]csh-delhi[dot]com
david[dot]singh[at]csh-delhi[dot]com
CSH Seminars are in hybrid mode. Please pre-register for offline and online registration before Monday, 6 April, 2:00 p.m. IST.
To attend at the venue: Please note the room capacity is limited. Seats will be reserved on a first-come first-served basis. Kindly bring ID proof to be granted access to the venue.
