COLLOQUIUM: TRANSNATIONAL SOUTH ASIA “GENOCIDE/GENDER” KAMALA VISWESWARAN “Genocide,” “genre,” and “gender “ share a common linguistic root in the Latin “genus.” This talk explores the ways in which gender marks the enunciation of genocide through the genres and aesthetics of visual production. If a Greek understanding of aesthetics encompassed something like an abstract science of feeling, and its negative form, anesthesia, initially referred to a defect of physical sensation, how is it that photographs meant to provide evidence of sexual violence and mass death, may not only numb, but arouse particular passions? In exploring the mass media production and circulation of working photos of the “Gujarat genocide,” I ask an unstable archive to yield to a feminist practice of the countervisual. Date: March 1 Time: 4 pm Location: Merill Room 2120 Key Hall Kamala Visweswaran is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UT Austin and works on feminist theory and ethnography, South Asian social movements, ethnic and political conﬂict, human rights, colonial law, postcolonial theory, Transnational and Diaspora studies, and comparative South Asia and Middle East studies. She is the author of Fictions of Feminist Ethnography (Minnesota, 1994), Un/ common Cultures (Duke, 2010); and editor of Perspectives on Modern South Asia (Blackwell, 2011) and Everyday Occupations: Experiencing Militarism in South Asia and the Middle East (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). She is currently ﬁnishing a book on: “A Thousand Genocides Now: Gujarat in the Modern Imaginary of Violence.” Sponsored by: ARHUDRIF, ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM & THE DEPARTMENTS OF WOMEN’S STUDIES AND HISTORY SCIENCE For details contact: Prof Ashwini Tambe ([email protected] )

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COLLOQUIUM: TRANSNATIONAL SOUTH ASIA

“GENOCIDE/GENDER” KAMALA VISWESWARAN

“Genocide,” “genre,” and “gender “ share a common linguistic root in the Latin “genus.” This talk explores the ways in which gender marks the enunciation of genocide through the genres and aesthetics of visual

production. If a Greek understanding of aesthetics encompassed something like an abstract science of feeling, and its negative form, anesthesia, initially referred to a defect of physical sensation, how is it that photographs meant to provide evidence of sexual violence and mass death, may not only numb, but

arouse particular passions? In exploring the mass media production and circulation of working photos of the “Gujarat genocide,” I ask an unstable

archive to yield to a feminist practice of the counter-‐‑visual.

Date: March 1Time: 4 pm

Location: Merill Room 2120 Key Hall

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Kamala Visweswaran is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UT Austin and works on feminist

theory and ethnography, South Asian social movements, ethnic and political conflict, human

rights, colonial law, postcolonial theory, Transnational and Diaspora studies, and comparative South Asia

and Middle East studies. She is the author of Fictions of Feminist Ethnography (Minnesota, 1994), Un/

common Cultures (Duke, 2010); and editor of Perspectives on Modern South Asia (Blackwell, 2011) and Everyday Occupations: Experiencing Militarism

in South Asia and the Middle East (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). She is currently finishing a book on: “A Thousand Genocides Now: Gujarat in the

Modern Imaginary of Violence.”

Sponsored by: ARHU-‐‑DRIF, ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM & THE DEPARTMENTS OF WOMEN’S STUDIES AND HISTORY SCIENCE

For details contact: Prof Ashwini Tambe ([email protected])

mailto:[email protected]