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Date: Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:48 PM
Subject: [gender-studies] 4/29 - Illuminating Contemporary Feminisms in
South Asia
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Illuminating Contemporary Feminisms in South Asia “Why Loiter” and
“Storytelling with Saris”

*Monday, April 29, 7–9PM*

@ Asian American Writers’ Workshop
110-112 West 27th St (btw 6th and 7th Aves)
New York, NY 10001

Given recent media attention to gender-based violence in South Asia, SAWCC
presents two projects that imagine and create feminist spaces in urban and
rural South Asia. Feminists *Shilpa Phadke*, *Monica Jahan Bose*, *Nandita
Ahmed*, and *Alka Dev* will talk about their work around building agency
through collaborative actions with other women.

Shilpa Phadke, co-author of *Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai
Streets*(Penguin 2011), examines women’s access and claim to public
space in Mumbai
beyond the prescriptions of a consumerist patriarchy; and Alka Dev and
Phadke will discuss issues of public health and women’s safety. Artist
Monica Jahan Bose and filmmaker Nandita Ahmed highlight women’s literacy
and empowerment through “Storytelling with Saris,” a collaborative
printmaking and story project in Bangladesh with Samhati<http://samhati.org/>,
an organization through which Ms. Bose and her family have transformed the
village of Katakhali.

*Shilpa Phadke* is an assistant professor at the Centre for Media and
Cultural Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She has
been educated at St. Xavier’s College; SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai; and
the University of Cambridge, UK. Her essays on women’s health and safety in
India have been published in many academic journals and books, and she is
the co-author of *Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai
Streets*<http://www.amazon.com/Why-Loiter-Women-Mumbai-Streets/dp/0143415956>(Penguin
2011).

*Alka Dev* is a global health professional with over a decade of experience
in the implementation of public health programs in resource-poor settings.
She has focused on issues as diverse as women’s reproductive health,
tuberculosis, and childhood blindness. Alka holds a Master of Health
Science from Johns Hopkins University and is currently enrolled in a public
health doctoral program at the Graduate Center, City University New York.
Her current work focuses on the health impact of urbanization in countries,
and she is particularly interested in comparing the effects of rapidly
changing urban environments with regard to gender.

*Monica Jahan Bose* is a Bangladeshi-American artist, lawyer, and activist.
Her work includes painting, drawing, printmaking, installation, sculpture,
and performance, as well as advocacy on women’s issues and the environment.
She has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in the US and
internationally. She serves on the board of Samhati <http://samhati.org/>,
a US-based Bangladeshi women’s organization that creates projects focused
on ecology and literacy to empower poor women in Bangladesh. She is also on
the board of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective. She now lives and
works in Washington DC, spending part of the year working in Bangladesh.

*Nandita Ahmed* is an artist, designer, and filmmaker. She graduated from
Wellesley College with a major in Media Arts and Sciences. She started off
her career as a producer/editor for a boutique-size ad agency based in New
York City. She had the opportunity to work on many high-profile accounts
including Amazon.com, New York Jets, the French Culinary Institute,and
various Condé Nast Publications. Since then, Nandita has started her own
agency, Brand Bean LLC, and has expanded her portfolio into nonprofits.
Nandita was born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh and resides in Brooklyn,
New York.


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Chris Grilo, M.S.
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