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Human Rights Graduate Workshop: "From Dhaka to Cincinnati: Charting Transnational Narratives of Trauma, Victimization and Survival"

March 17, 2014
All Day
311 Denney Hall



In the workshop, Elora Chowdhury will facilitate a discussion of transnational feminist methdologies, with an emphasis on institutional ethnography and narrative analysis.

Elora Halim Chowdhury is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She is a Faculty Affiliate to the Asian Studies Program, and the Asian American Studies Program. Her teaching and research interests include transnational feminisms, critical development studies, gendered violence and human rights advocacy with an emphasis on South Asia. She is the author of Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing Against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh (SUNY Press, 2011). Her book was awarded the National Women’s Studies Association Gloria Anzaldua book prize in 2012. She has published in venues such as Meridians: Feminism Race Transnationalism; International Feminist Journal of Politics; Women’s Studies International Forum; Gender, Place & Culture; Violence Against Women; Journal of Bangladesh Studies; Cultural Dynamics; Asian American Literary Review; Gender & Development; Human Rights Quarterly; Journal of Asian and African Studies.

Sponsored by the Human Rights Working Group of the Humanities Institute, Project Narrative, and DISCO.