Defining a Nation: Women and Gender in Pre-Independence India
Defining a Nation: Women and Gender in Pre-Independence India
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Part of Women's History Month Colloquium.
Speaker Julie Laut - recently earned her doctorate in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she specialized in the history of the British Empire, South Asia in a global context, gender and empire, and the U.S. and the World. Her dissertation, "India at the United Nations: A Post-Colonial Nation State on the Global Stage, 1945-1955," argues that the evolving relationship between the postcolonial Indian state and the emergent United Nations produced the foundations of "UN Postcolonialism" -- a gendered cultural construct that emerged in the early years of the UN through both the emotional high of the postcolonial moment and the contradictions of decolonization at the start of the Cold War.
See full program at https://www.indstate.edu/cas/MultidisciplinaryStudies/gender-studies/womens-history-month.