Feb 24 :: CONTESTED MEMORIES: Gender, Violence, & Extremism in Sri Lanka

Contested Memories: Gender, Violence, & Extremism in Sri Lanka a panel with Fatima Cadre, Nimmi Gowrinathan, & Sujith Xavier, as part of the 10th annual Global South Asia Conference (Feb 23 & 24)Click here for full conference program.February 24, Saturday9 to 11 amFathima Cader, Law, University of WindsorNimmi Gowrinathan, Founder and Director, Politics of Sexual Violence InitiativeSujith Xavier, …

The Facisization of Everyday Life in Sri Lanka

November 9, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 PM Mangalika de Silva, Visiting Scholar, CSGS Based on prior activism as director of the NGO “Women for Peace” and on current ethnographic research on the minoritization of women and Muslims, this talk explores genealogies of formal and informal state terror.  Counterinsurgency nationalism in Sri Lanka is theorized as …