Events

Upcoming Events

Apr
03

TAPSA: Title TBA

On April 3, 2025 at 5:00 pm
Apr
10

Eclectic Geographies of Tamil Music

On April 10, 2025 at 12:00 am
Apr
17

TAPSA: Title TBA

On April 17, 2025 at 5:00 pm
Apr
21

Memorial for Marriott McKim

On April 21, 2025 at 12:00 am
Apr
25
May
01

TAPSA: Title TBA

On May 1, 2025 at 5:00 pm
May
08

South Asia Seminar: Title TBA

On May 8, 2025 at 5:00 pm
May
09

Memorial for Norman Zide

On May 9, 2025 at 12:00 pm
May
15

TAPSA: Title TBA

On May 15, 2025 at 5:00 pm
May
21
May
22
May
23

2025 Chicago Tamil Forum: Tamil Horizons and Borders

From May 23, 2025 9:00 am to May 24, 2025 4:00 pm
May
29

Conference in Honor of Muzaffar Alam

From May 29, 2025 9:00 am to May 30, 2025 7:00 pm

Southern Asia Seminar: Formations of Feminist Thalaimurai: Intergenerationality, Memory and Care in Tamil Political Life

Thursday February 6, 2025 – 5pm, Foster 103

Anusha Hariharan, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies, Villanova University

Based on ethnographic work with feminist collectives in Tamil Nadu, this talk attends to the intermediations between embodied, intimate feminist solidarities and the construction of feminist memory in intergenerational political spaces. In tracking Tamil feminists’ contextual use of thalaimurai (generations) in political life as marking transformations in activist imaginaries and shifting conceptions of the political, this talk explores an intermediation where the mediated object—memory—also serves as the mediating device. In doing so, it examines how embodied feminist friendships and intimacies mediate the construction of memory that feminists perform as a form of care for themselves and their histories, and how memory-work mediates the formation of new relationalities between generations, thus raising important questions for what political inheritance could mean for feminists in postcolonial South Asia.