Mumbai At Home and in the World: Gender, Sexuality and the Postcolonial City
From January 9 to 16, 2013, faculty affiliated with the Barnard Center for Research on Women’s Transnational Feminisms Initiative and the Barnard Global Symposia held an interdisciplinary Winter Seminar, “Mumbai At Home and in the World: Gender, Sexuality and the Postcolonial City,” at Sophia College in Mumbai, India. The seminar reflected Barnard’s investment in innovative and collaborative engagements with partners around the world in an era of new global scholarly and pedagogical possibilities. The seminar was hosted by Sophia College and taught by faculty from Barnard, Sophia, and Lady Shri Ram College in Delhi. The student body for this seminar was drawn from Barnard (8 students), Sophia (50 students) and Lady Shri Ram (2 students).
Students discuss gender and the city at the Mumbai Winter Seminar at Sophia College
The goal of these seminars is to find ways of sustaining engagement with those cities that have hosted one of Barnard’s annual global symposia. Our objectives are to build upon existing transnational research projects of Barnard faculty; develop new institutional and individual professional collaborations for the specific purposes of creating truly global classroom experiences and curricular innovations; facilitate scholarly exchanges with faculty at multiple, related sites; encourage student exchanges; and deepen ties between Barnard College and institutions abroad.
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