Governance Memoirs: IAS and Gender in India; A talk by Inderpal Grewal

Inderpal Grewal is a Professor of Women�s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Most recently she has taught at University of California, Irvine, where she was director of Women�s Studies and of the PhD Program in Culture and Theory. Her research interests include transnational feminist theory; gender and globalization, human rights; NGO�s and theories of civil society; theories of travel and mobility; South Asian cultural studies, and postcolonial feminism.

Dr. Grewal is the author of Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Cultures of Travel (Duke University Press, 1996) and Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms (Duke University Press, 2005), and (with Caren Kaplan) has written and edited Gender in a Transnational World: Introduction to Women�s Studies (Mc-Graw Hill 2001, 2005) and Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational: Feminist Practices (University of Minnesota Press, 1994). Currently she is working on a book length project on the relation between feminist practices and security discourses. She is also co-editing (with Victoria Bernal, UC Irvine, Anthropology) an edited collection entitled �The NGO Boom: Critical Feminist. Practices.�

Dr. Inderpal Grewal�s talk on February 16th, 2011 is titled Governance Memoirs: IAS and Gender in India.