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TLC Credit: IS, GO

Presenters: Dr. Shailaja Paik, Charles P. Taft Distinguished Professor of History and associate faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies at the University of Cincinnati

Description: Dr. Paik will discuss her book The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India which offers the first social and intellectual history of Dalit performance of Tamasha—a popular form of public, secular, traveling theater in Maharashtra—and places Dalit Tamasha women who represented the desire and disgust of the patriarchal society at the heart of modernization in twentieth-century India.

Paik will engage with responses to her book by Arpita Sarker and Rajorshi Das. SASP Director Aniruddha Dutta will introduce Paik.

Learning Goal: Create connections to global and local complex challenges that impact the shared human experience.

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