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Rukmini Sen

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Affiliation

  • Dean , School of Heritage Research and Management
  • Director , Outreach and Extension Division
  • Professor , School of Liberal Studies
  • Director , Centre for Publishing

Email

    rukmini@aud.ac.in

Qualification

  • PhD Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata 2008

"Title of PhD thesis: Gendered Construction of Culture of Silence/Insignificant Articulation"

  • MA Sociology, Centre for Studies in Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2000
  • BA Sociology, Presidency College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 1998

Past Experience

  • Assistant Professor at WB National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkta 2002-2009
  • Junior Fellow at Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi January 2010-January 2011
  • Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi 2011-2015
  •  Associate Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi 2015-2018

Area of Expertise

  • Sociology of Law
  • Sociology of Kinship and Intimacy
  • Feminist Pedagogy and Jurisprudence
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Disability Studies

Courses Taught at AUD:

  • Faith, Religion and Society (MA Sociology)
  • Gender and Society (SUS)
  • Politics, Law and Society (SUS)
  • Indian Society: Contradictions, Complexity and Paradoxes (SUS)
  • Culture, Hierarchy and Difference (MA Sociology)
  • Relationships and Affinities (MA Sociology)
  • Law and Society (MA Sociology)
  • Violence: Feminist Resistance and Critiques (MA Gender Studies)
  • Theoretical Issues in Sociological Research (PhD Sociology)
  • Women’s Movements (MPhil, Women and Gender Studies)
  • Researching the Rural (MPhil Development Practice)

Awards

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

  • WISCOMP (Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace) SAAHAS awards 2020 recognising continuous engagements with curricula using an intersectional lens, and courageous efforts to bring structural shifts in the everyday functioning of higher education spaces through innovative pedagogy and counselling
  • International Visitor Leadership Programme on Human Rights Awareness (US State Department of Education and Cultural Affairs) awardee in 2007—part of a seven member team from South Asia, only woman awardee from India
  • Member, Core Group on Women at National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi since 2019
  • Member, Expert Committee National Commission for Women, 2011-12 and 2019-till date
  • Member, Advisory Board, Feminist Judgments Initiative, Gujarat National Law University, India
  • Advisory Member, Country Reference Group for research project Sustaining Power for Women’s Rights in South Asia jointly to be conducted between Indian Social Studies Trust with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK between 2020-2023
  • Member, Advisory Board for the book series Education Research in Global Contexts with Emerald Publications, 2020-2023
  • Member, Editorial Board for the book series International Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence with Trivent Publishing, Budapest https://trivent-publishing.eu/62-gender-based-violence
  • Ranked first in Sociology, Bachelor of Arts, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 1998

Publications

Refereed Journals

  • (2024) (with Aishwarya Rajeev) ‘Recognising Care Workers: A Feminist Legal Examination of ASHAs’, Review of Women’s Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, June 29 and July 6, 2024, Vol. LIX, Nos. 26 and 27, 46-51
  • (2024) (with Shahaha Rafiq) ‘Intercaste/Community Marriages: Contestations and Negotiations in the Family’, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, May 30, 2024 (online first) https://doi.org/10.1177/2455328X241253356
  • (2023) ‘Editorial: Resilient Solidarities: Feminist Experiences on Trust and Community Building’ Peace Prints: South Asian Journal of Peace Building, Vol. 9, No. 1, Winter 2023, ISSN: 2582-7871, 
  • (2023) ‘Intersectional Feminist Activism and Practices of Transformation: Perspectives from Indian Feminisms’, Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, Special Issue 44 (4) DOI: 10.1080/1554477X.2023.2247630, published online 11 September, 2023 
  • (2023) Pyar, Promise, Dhoka: Feminist Questions to Law Commentary on Uday v State of Karnataka (2003) 4 SCC 46 in VRU/World Comparative Law Vol. 56 (2023), Issue 1 https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0506-7286-2023-1-104/, open access, ISSN: 0506-7286, ISSN online: 0506-7286
  • (2021) “Kalpana Kannabiran in Conversation with Rukmini Sen” Explorations, e Journal of Indian Sociological Society, 5 (2): 277-291 ISSN: 2581-5741
  • (2021; with K Menon) “Social Sciences Teaching and Research: Its Resilience and Relevance in Times of the NEP and Pandemic.” Journal of Educational Planning and Administration XXXV (1): 47-58, ISSN 0971-3859
  • (2020) “Stay Home, Stay Safe: Interrogating Violence in the Domestic Sphere.” Economic and Political Weekly 55 (25).
  • (2020) “Court Visits and Learning Pedagogies: Access to Sites of Justice.” Peace Prints: South Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, special issue on Transformative Pedagogies 6 (1).
  • (2017) “Sexual harassment and the limits of free speech.” Economic and Political Weekly 52 (50).
  • (2016) “Women with disabilities or disabled women: Cartographic Encounters with Legal Interstices.” Indian Anthropologist, Special issue on Everyday State and Politics in India 46 (2): 75-92. ISSN: 09700927
  • (2015; with S. Mandal) “Introduction: Indian Feminisms, Law Reform and the Law Commission of India.” Journal of Indian Law and Society, Special Issue in Honour of Lotika Sarkar 6 (Monsoon): XI-XXXVII.
  • (2013) “The Need for an Everyday Culture of Protest.” Economic and Political Weekly 48 (2).
  • (2010) “Women’s subjectivities of Suffering and Legal rhetoric on Domestic Violence: Fissures in the two Discourses.” Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Special issue on Violence, Law and Feminist Politics 17 (3): 375-401, ISSN 0971-5215 
  • (2010) “Law Commission Reports on Rape.” Economic and  Political Weekly, Review of Women’s Studies, 45 (44-45): 81-87
  • (2010) “Pawar and the Power of the Narrative: Resistance and Re-emergence.” Contemporary Voice of Dalit 3 (1):  45-60
  • (2009) “Teaching Sociology in a Law School: Predicaments, Negotiations and Innovations.” Journal of Indian Law & Society 1: 37-57.
  • (2009) “Breaking Silences, Celebrating New Spaces: Mapping Elite Responses to the ‘Inclusive’ Judgment.” NUJS Law Review 2 (3): 481-503.
  • (2009) “May Feel, Mustn’t Talk, Never Question: A Reading of Rashsundari and Binodini’s Autobiographies.” Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology 2: 69-90.
  • (2008) “The Destruction of Caste Means a Notional Change’: Creation of Community and Identity in Ambedkar’s Writings.” Contemporary Voice of Dalit 1 (1): 57-65.

Edited/Co-edited Sections in Journals

Edited Books

Refereed Chapter in Edited Books

  • (2024) ‘From maintenance to Care-ing: the aged in times of changing familial geographies’ in Cultures of Ageing and Ageism in India in Bakshi, K and Chakravarti, P (edited), 33-47, Routledge, ISBN-978-0-367-37071-8  (paperback) 
  • (2023) ‘Gendering pedagogy, engendering practices: contemporary STEM education Landscape’ in India Higher Education Report 2022: Women in Higher Education, Varghese, N.V. and Sabharwal, Nidhi (edited), 299-312, Routledge ISBN 9781032458786
  • (2023 with Gopinath, M Menon, K and Banerjea, N) ‘Voicing Democracy and reclaiming Citizenship: A Dialogic Conversation about Shaheen Bagh’ in Meenakshi Malhotra, et al (edited) The Gendered Body in South Asia: Negotiation, Resistance, Struggle 209-219, Routledge ISBN-13 9781032525709 
  • (2023 with Menon K and Sachdeva, D) ‘Conversations on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Body, Violence and Touch’ in Meenakshi Malhotra, et al (edited) The Gendered Body in South Asia: Negotiation, Resistance, Struggle 59-72, Routledge ISBN-13 9781032525709 (2023) 
  • (2023) ‘Home, Violence and the Pandemic: Sociological Discourses and Re-imagination in India.’ In Coronasphere: Narratives on COVID 19 from India and its Neighbours edited by C Sharma and R Banerjee, 121-133, Routledge. ISBN 9781032206646
  • (2022) “Intimacy, Transgression, Ethics: Scripts and Silences in Gendered Academia.” In #MeToo and Beyond: Perspectives on a Global Movement, edited by C Alcade and P Villa. 146-162. Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN: 978-0813195599
  • (2022) “From harassment to transgression: understanding changes in the legal landscape of sexual harassment in India.” In Intimacy and Injury in the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa, edited by N Falkof, S Roy and S Phadke, 223-239. Manchester: Manchester University Press ISBN: 978-1526157621
  • (2022) “Mapping Women’s Activism in India: Resistances, Reforms and (Re)-Creation.” In Handbook of Gender in South Asia, edited by L Fernandez, second edition, 380-393. New York: Routledge ISBN 9780367479657
  • (2020; with R Govinda, F MacKay, K Menon) “Introduction.” In Doing Feminisms in the Academy: Identity, Institutional Pedagogy and Critical Classrooms in India and the UK, edited by R Govinda, F MacKay, K Menon and R Sen, 1-15. New Delhi: Zubaan. 
  • (2020; with K Menon) “From Perspective to Discipline: Mapping Forty years in Women's/Gender Studies in India.” In Doing Feminisms in the Academy: Identity, Institutional Pedagogy and Critical Classrooms in India and the UK, edited by R Govinda, F MacKay, K Menon and R Sen, 40-60. New Delhi: Zubaan.
  • (2020) “Between Discomfort and Negotiation Reflections on Teaching Law Through (Feminist) Sociology.” In Doing Feminisms in the Academy: Identity, Institutional Pedagogy and Critical Classrooms in India and the UK, edited by R Govinda, F MacKay, K Menon and R Sen, 137-152. New Delhi: Zubaan.
  • (2020) “Transformations in Kinship Relations in a Globalised India: Interrogating Marriage, Law and Intimacy.” In Challenges of Globalisation and Prospects for an Inter- Civilizational World Order, edited by I Rossi, 605-19. Springer Cham https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44058-9.
  • (2019) “Is there a new language in hesitation?.” In (Re)claiming Lesbian Feminisms: Transnational Dialogues with Contemporary Heteropatriarchies, edited by K Browne, M Olasik, J Podmore and N Banerjea, 45-59. London: Zed Books.
  • (2019; with P Ray) “Introduction.” In Trust in Transactions, edited by P Ray and R Sen, xvii-xxxvii. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. 
  • (2019) “Domestic Labour and Domestic Work(er)Domesticity as a Site of Contested Trust and Discipline.” In Trust in Transactions, edited by P Ray and R Sen, 37-56. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan.
  • (2018) “Re-imagining Kinship in disability specific domesticity: Legal understanding of care and companionship.” In Mapping Disability Studies in South Asia, edited by A Ghai, 401-412. New Delhi: Sage. 
  • (2018) “Interrogating (non) Consent in sexual intimacies and infringements: Mapping the socio-legal landscape in India.” In Re-imagining Sociology in India: Feminist Perspectives, edited by G Chaddha and M T Joseph, 197-219. London and New York: Routledge. 
  • (2017) “Reading the social in autobiographies: A glimpse into everyday life and history.” In Knowing the social world: Methodologies in Sociological Research, edited by N Jayaram, 280-298. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan for Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. 
  • (2016) “Right to care, home and family: Ethics of responsibility towards persons with disability.” In Interrogating Disability in India: Theory and Practice, edited by N Ghosh, 65–75. New Delhi: Springer. 
  • (2015) “Remembering the Pratyahik (Daily): ‘De’-familiarizing Familial Social History through Memoirs.” In Pratyaha: Everyday Lifeworlds: Dilemmas, Contestations and Negotiations edited by P Ray and N Ghosh, 238–258. Delhi: Primus Publications. 
  • (2014) “Resistance, Reforms and Re-creation: Mapping women’s activism in India.” In Handbook of Gender in South Asia, edited by L Fernandez, first edition, 333–346. New York: Routledge. 
  • (2012) “Neutral’ Laws or ‘Moral’ Codes: Controlling and Recreating Sexualities/Intimacies.” In The Fear That Stalks: Gender Based Violence in Public Spaces, edited by L Prabhu and S Pilot, 143-172. New Delhi: Zubaan. 
  • (2012) “Democracy and Gender: Contradiction between the Liberal and the Submissive Image of Women.” In Democracy and Democratization in the 21st Century: the South Asian Experience, edited by P P Basu, D Chatterjee, P Bhattacharya and S Chatterjee, 109-131, New Delhi: Har Anand Publications. 
  • (2011) “UNCRPD and PWD: Gaps in Promises, Perspectives and Programs.” Indian Year Book of International Law and Policy (2010-2011), II, 258-282, Kolkata: Kamal Law House. 
  • (2010) “Integrating Sociology in Law School Curriculum: Discontent, Dilemma, Direction.” In Sociology in India: Intellectual and Institutional Practices, edited by M Chaudhuri, 197-214, Jaipur: Rawat Publications. 
  • (2008) “Atmakathar Nirabota: Bangali Mohilader Atmajiboni.” (Silences in Personal Narratives: Bengali Women’s Autobiographies). In Naribishwa, edited by P Chanda, 360-372, Kolkata: Gangchil.

Opinions 

  • (2023)‘Conversation-with-chairperson-of-a-ugc-created-task-force-in-2013-to-ensure-safety-of-women-on-campuses’, December 8, 2023, Annual 16 Days Blogathon 2021, hosted by GenderED at the University of Edinburgh, the Australian Human Rights Institute at the University of New South Wales and Dr B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi in Delhi.
  • (2023) “Besharam Rang Kaha Dekha, Love, Family and Watan Sociology” July 30
  • (2023 with R, Aishwarya) “Recognition for gendered work: A post-pandemic hope and demand” May 1, Gender Ed
  • (2022) “Welcome to the 16 days Blogathon 2022 on migration, mobilities and displacement”, Annual 16 Days Blogathon 2021, hosted by GenderED at the University of Edinburgh, the Australian Human Rights Institute at the University of New South Wales and Dr B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi in Delhi.
  • (2021) “Welcome to the 16 days Blogathon 2021 on histories, myths and memories.” Annual 16 Days Blogathon 2021, hosted by genderED at the University of Edinburgh, the Australian Human Rights Institute at the University of New South Wales and Dr B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi 
  • (2021) “The Changing nature of urban homes and women's lives.” Hindustan Times, March 8 
  • (2020) “Life after COVID-19: A Society of Empaths or more Socially Distant.” News Click, March 30.
  • (2020) “Returning Home and Violence within the Home: COVID 19 and multiple gendered violations.” Annual 16 Days Blogathon 2020, hosted by genderED at the University of Edinburgh, the Australian Human Rights Institute at the University of New South Wales and Ambedkar University Delhi in Delhi.
  • (2019; with K Menon) “Lessons from Hyderabad: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.” Genderpol, blog of the Gender Politics Research Group, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh - and friends.
  • (2019; with F Mackay, L Chappell, C Hamilton and N Dyer, the co-curators)  “Closing Reflections 16 days of blogs for 16 days of Activism 2019”. Annual 16 days blogathon 2019.
  • (2018) “To Speak/To Complain: Reflections on Indian Feminist Politics in the moment of #MeToo and LoSHA.” Annual 16 Days Blogathon 2018.
  • (2017) “To Promote contemporary feminist politics we need Sexual Harassment watchdog bodies.” The Wire¸October 3.
  • (2016) “Still my-self? Or the loss of the self?.” Café Dissensus, August 14. 
  • (2015) “Humiliation as Political, Politicizing Humiliation: When Caste Bodies are Sexually Violated” Vikalp, August 29. 
  • (2014) “Performing Queer, Judging Queer.” Kindle Magazine, February 1.
  • (2013) “The Road to Equality has never been Straight: Supreme Court’s Verdict on S 377.” Vikalp, December 26.
  • (2013) “The supportive role of women’s organizations.” ‘More laws=More rights=More justice?’, special issue, edited by O Sircar and S Mandal, Infochange Agenda, 26: 50-52.
  • (2013) ‘Documentary Evidence of Sexual Relationship: Is Companionship necessary when adults cohabit?’, Kafila, June 25.

COMMISSIONED WORK 

Research Monograph/Report Writing

  • (2023) Guest Editor Peace Prints: South Asian Journal of Peace Building, Resilient Solidarities: Feminist Experiences on Trust-and Community-building, (Vol. 9, No. 1, Winter 2023), ISSN: 2582-7871
  • (2023) Impact Assessment of Azad Foundation Programs 2008-2022 (with Krishna Menon), published by Azad Foundation
  • (2023) Teaching Trust: An Ethic of Care and Resilience in Pandemic Times (with Ashwin Varghese) published by Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace an initiative of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility, ISBN 978-81-953841-0-8 
  • (2019) Background Paper for International Conference Making Non-Traditional Livelihoods (NTL) work for the Marginalised
  • (2018) ‘Rape Law and Constructions of Sexuality’ published by Partners for Law and Development. Detailed academic input into the conceptualisation, imagination and in the various drafts of this resource book on sexuality and the inter-linkages with sexual violence. The resource book is intended for social workers and activists as a tool for consciousness raising

INTERVIEWS and ACADEMIC CONTENT CREATION

  • (2021) Podcast ‘Non-Human Journeys and Companionships’ as part of the series curated by Travel Matters 
  • (2021) ‘Interrogating Home: Space and Women in India’ as part of Doing Sociology, available online at https://doingsociology.org/2021/02/22/interrogating-home-space-and-women-in-india-an-interview-with-prof-rukmini-sen/
  • (2019) ‘The Social Construction on Shaming’ (with K. Menon and A. Ghai), interview conducted by All India Radio, New Delhi
  • (2019) Interviewed and featured by documentary film-maker Susan Kemp (based in Edinburgh) on women, inclusivity and knowledge creation for film on The Edinburgh Seven, the first group of matriculated undergraduate female students at any British University, awarded posthumously their degrees
  • (2019) Drop-in session for #MeToo and related issues of sexual violence/harassment in campus at University of Edinburgh
  • (2019) Interviewed as part of Centre for Human Rights, Jindal Global Law School research project on Internal Complaints Committees [ICCs] of Higher Education Institutions situated within the Delhi-NCR region
  • (2017) ‘City through Feminist Lens’, a walking tour across the city of Delhi, as part of the ‘Teaching Feminisms, Transforming Lives: Questions of Identity, Pedagogy and Violence in India and the UK’ UGC UKIERI project. The walk intended to understand the city through the role of women’s colleges, hostels, women’s political associations and women journalists’ collectives played in the life of the city of Delhi
     

Seminar/Conferences

INVITED LECTURES (2019 and 2020)

Keynote address

May 2019 ‘Writing the Self, Walking with the Social: Feminist Reflections on Knowing and Knowledge’ in Decolonising Feminist Knowledge: Reflections on Research and Curriculum, Workshop at the University of Edinburgh, UK

November 2018 at national Seminar on Succession Act and Women organized by Tarabai Shinde Women’s Studies Centre, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, 30

2021

  • Resource person on ‘Constitution, Laws and Women's Campaigns’ at a workshop on Gender Equality and Women's Rights organised by ICC, MANIT, Bhopal 22 February 2021
  • Resource person on ‘Constitution Equality and Feminist Jurisprudence’ at the online course on Gender and Development organised by Advanced Women's Studies and Development Centre, University of Delhi 19 January 2021
  • Panelist at The State, Sex and Sexuality in South Asia discussion organised by South Asia Legal Forum, University College London 8 February 2021

2020

  • "Understanding Motherhood: Transformations in the legislation of Maternity 'Benefit' in India" at the International Workshop on Gender and Reproduction, organised by MS Merian-R Tagore International Centre of Advance Studies, Metamorphosis of the Political held online November 13,14, 19 2020
  • January 2 ‘The Women’s Question and the Contradictions in the becoming of the Constitution’ at the Citizenship, Democracy and Constitution Professor Madhava Menon Conclave held at WB National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
  • January 28 ‘Securing Gender Justice amidst Cultural and Religious Pluralism: Indian Experiences’ at the Winter School on Law, Justice and Sustainable Development organised by Centre for Law, Justice and Development and National Academy of Law Teachers under the aegis of National Law University Delhi in collaboration with University of Antwerp, Belgium
  • February 3 ‘Qualitative Research as Resistance’ as part of workshop on Qualitative Research Methods in Social Sciences organised by Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata
  • February 11 ‘Pedagogies of Transformation? Contemporary Feminist Practices within and beyond the Classroom’ at a Colloquium Transformation for Sustainability? Gender and its Intersections with participation in Higher Education, organised by Women’s Studies Centre Jadavpur University, Kolkata and Queen’s University Belfast
  • February 18 'Women’s Movement in India and the changing discourse on UCC’ at the National Conference on Uniform Civil Code organised by the Centre for Human Rights, Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad
  • March 3 ‘Managing the Diverse Classroom’ in 4th International Conference Transcending National Boundaries – Diversity & Inclusion: Critical for Effective Internationalisation organised by Symbiosis International University and Association of Indian Universities organised by Symbiosis International University, Pune
  • Special Lectures on ‘Writing the Self: Autobiography as Feminist Knowledge’ as part of the course Feminist Theories and Practice conducted by Department of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 28, 29 and 30 September 2021
  • ‘Home, Lockdown and Negotiations: Expressions and Silences’ at a Webinar Series Gendered Sites, Everyday Lives organised by the Centre for Women's Studies. IQAC and Library of Cotton University, Guwahati on 24 July 2020
  • ‘Burden of Multi-Tasking on Working Women and Domestic Violence’, as part of the Webinar Impact of the Pandemic on the Metropolitan Middle-Class Indian Woman Department of English Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi organised held on 12 June 2020
  • Part of a conversation Webinar organised by Jindal Global Law School titled Feminist Ruminations on the Pandemic on 25 June 2020
  • ‘Home, Domesticity and the Pandemic: Reflections and Reimagining’ as part of a National Webinar Reconceptualising Space in the Pandemic Times organised by the Department of Sociology Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata on 10 August 2020
  • ‘Reimagining Home: Gendered Construction of Domestic Spaces', organised by the Women's Development and Gender Sensitisation Cell of IP College, University of Delhi on 13 October 2020
  • ‘Gender Justice to cope with the Shadow Pandemic' at an International Webinar Decoding the Shadow Pandemic: Understanding the Complex Issue of Gender Violence amidst Lockdown organised by the IQAC and Women's Celll of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Mahavidyalaya, Kolkata on 13 February 2020
  • ‘Gendered Experiences of the Home: Journey across Identities and Time’ at an International Webinar titled In Search of Gender Identities: Relocating Women in Theory and Practice organised by Gender Resource Centre and IQAC of Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Vivekananda Vidyabhavan, an autonomous college in Kolkata on 14 December 2020
  • Panelist on ‘Gender, Power and the Home’ at an International Webinar Series organised by the Governing Intimacies project of the University of Witswaterstrand, South Africa on 22 July 2020
  • Resource person to discuss ‘Sexual Harassment laws at the workplace in the context of India’ at an event organised by IWWAGE and KREA University, Chennai, 8 April 2020
  • Resource person on ‘Domestic Violence: Meanings and Implications’ to a Webinar titled Domestic Violence in COVID 19 times:Approaches and Strategies to combat the shadow Pandemic organised by the Department of Gender Studies, Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, Tamil Nadu, 31 July 2020
  • Resource person on ‘Gender and Human Rights’ at the Online Short Term Internship Programme National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), New Delhi 21 September 2020
  • Resource Person at Faculty Development Programme on Pandemic and Inclusivity speaking on ‘Engendering the Pandemic: Including Multiple Voices’ organised by Miranda House College, University of Delhi and Rama Devi Women's University, Odisha 31 August 2020

2019

  • Jan 9 ‘Sexual Harassment at the Workplace Collaborative Programme on Global Feminism : Contexts and Contestations’ between Women’s Studies and Development Centre (University of Delhi) and University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire, USA
  • Feb 1 ‘Engendering Laws, Transforming Family: SC judgments in 2018’ at the Department of Sociology, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi
  • Feb 12 ‘Constitutional Equality and Feminist Jurisprudence’ at National Workshop on Gender and Development organized by WSDC, University of Delhi and Institute of Social Studies Trust
  • February 18Panelist at book discussion From a Shepherd Boy to an Intellectual: My Memoirs (author Kancha Illiah Shepherd) organized by Sage Publications, New Delhi and Stree Samya Publications, Kolkata
  • February 2019 Intimacy and Transgression: Conversations, Care, Complaint as part of a conference Intimacy and Injury: in the wake of #Metoo in India and South Africa, organised by Governing Intimacies project of University of Witswaterstrand, South Africa
  • March 2 Panelist at book launch Critical Themes in Indian Sociology (edited by Sanjay Srivastava, Yasmeen Arif and Janaki Abraham) organized by Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi and Sage Publications, New Delhi
  • March 12 Gender Dignity and Rights in the Higher Education Space as part of Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace WISCOMP workshop Gender Equity and Inclusion: Transformative Pathways in Higher Education at Cotton University, Guwahati
  • March 14 'Ethnographer in the Field: Dilemmas and practical considerations of rapport establishment and immersion’ at Ethnography Workshop by ICSSR and AUD
  • March Sexual harassment, sexually transgressive: Law and its beyond at Sexual Harassment Law and Policies in Indian Universities: Challenges, Practices and Perspectives organized by Centre for Human Rights, OP Jindal University, Sonipat
  • April 2019 Intimacy, Transgression, Ethics: Scripts and Silences in Gendered Academia, at the International Symposium on Comparative Perspectives of #MeToo, University of Kentucky Lexington, USA
  • May 1 ‘Sexual Harassment at the Workplace’ organised by Internal Complaints Committee, Teri School of Advanced Studies
  • May 22 (Keynote address) ‘Writing the Self, Walking with the Social: Feminist Reflections on Knowing and Knowledge’ in Decolonising Feminist Knowledge: Reflections on Research and Curriculum, Workshop at the University of Edinburgh, UK
  • September 20 ‘Sex and Power in the Academia’ organised by Department of Sociology, Miranda House, University of Delhi

Research Supervision at AUD: (Title of Thesis/Discipline/Year of granting degree)

A. Awarded (all MPhil)

  1. Women and the Vocation of Politics: the Gendered Nature of Electoral Competition, MPhil in Women and Gender Studies, Degree granted 2014
  2. Invisible Lives in Visible Histories: Women Negotiating the transition from Private to Public, MPhil in Women and Gender Studies, Degree granted 2016
  3. Sexual Subaltern/ity and Queer Activism in India: A Search at the Interstice, MPhil in Women and Gender Studies, Degree granted 2016
  4. “Lower Caste” Women’s Question: An Exploration of Terminologies and Themes, MPhil in Women and Gender Studies, Degree granted 2018
  5. Transforming the Political – Politicizing Transformation: The Journey of Eka Nari Sanghathan in Emaliguda, Odisha, MPhil in Development Practice, Degree granted 2015
  6. From Beneficiary to Relationality? A Description of ‘Collective’ Lives among Sopo villagers of Gumla, Jharkhand, MPhil in Development Practice, Degree granted 2016
  7. Recast(e)ing Dining Practices in Rural: A Transformative Action Initiating Inter-dining Practices in Daihar, Hazaribagh District, Jharkhand, MPhil in Development Practice, Degree granted 2018
  8. Rethinking Violence, Understanding Domesticity: A journey with Sangwari, in Dokal, Dhamtari, Chattisgarh, MPhil in Development Practice, Degree granted 2018
  9. Life of Hadiya: (Re) Thinking Nasha and Violence: Moving away from State and Urban centric Developmental Response, MPhil in Development Practice, Degree granted 2018
  10. Once Upon a Different Life: Migration of Santal tribal girls for domestic work in Indian metropoles, MPhil in Development Practice, Degree granted 2019
  11. Queer Politics and the Law in India: Reading Judgments and Narratives, MPhil Women and Gender Studies, MPhil, Women and Gender Studies Degree granted 2019
  12. Re-Imagining a Dialogue on Marriage and Practices like Dhuku among women in Gumla, Jharkhand , MPhil Development Practice, degree granted 2020

B. Ongoing

  1. Being Remo: Analysing Bonda (PVTG) Identity in Ethnography and Fiction, PhD in Women and Gender Studies
  2. Examining Marriage through Mediation Process; Study of Matrimonial Disputes in Delhi, PhD Sociology
  3. Understanding the Custom of Forced Marriages: An Exploratory Study in Bihar, MPhil, Women and Gender Studies
  4. Culture of campus-based Sexual Violence as Experienced by women students: A Study in Delhi Metropolis, PhD in Women and Gender Studies

PARTNERSHIPS/MEMBERSHIPS WITH NETWORKS

  1. Life Member Indian Association for Women’s Studies
  2. Executive Committee Member, Joint Secretary of Indian Association for Women’s Studies—2009-2011
  3. Life Member of Indian Sociological Society and Law and Social Science Research Network (LASSNET)
  4. Member RC 09 Sociology of Development, International Sociological Association
  5. Member RC 32 Women, Gender and Society, International Sociological Association
  6. Member, European Council for South Asian Studies

Conference Presentation

“Women's Writing, Social History and Ways of Knowing: When Disciplines are Democratised" at the International Conference on Challenges of the 21st Century: Democracy, Environment, Inequalities, Intersectionality organised by International Sociological Association 23-28 February 2021 at Brazil, held online

 

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