The Syracuse Women’s Empowerment and Engagement Partnership (SWEEP) is a cross-campus collaboration that will be hosting several on campus events in celebration of Women’s History month in March. All students, staff and faculty members across campus are encouraged to join SWEEP to celebrate all women and what they do in the campus community. Read more about it at SU News.
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Disabilifunk Celebrates Disability and Diversity
On Saturday, Feb. 20, 6-9 p.m. in the Schine Underground, the Disability Cultural Center (DCC) and Disability Student Union (DSU) invite the campus community to Disabilifunk—an engaging, inclusive and exciting evening of karaoke, a cappella, improv and more. Read more about it at SU News.
SPRING 2016 Interfaith Dialogue Dinner Series
“Common and Diverse Ground: Raising Consciousnesses by Acknowledging the ‘Hidden’ Things that Divide Us” is the theme for Spring 2016’s Interfaith Dialogue Dinner Series. It begins on January 27th with “Revisiting Privilege: The Intersections of Privileged and Marginalized Identities,” and continues throughout the semester. Continue Reading
SAC presents: Himika Bhattacharya
When: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Where: 341 Eggers Hall
Himika Bhattacharya on “Love is love, how can it be divided?”: Women narrating joint/marriage, caste, and tribe in Lahaul, India.
In this talk, Bhattacharya will trace the marriage practice of “joint” in Lahaul, India. By juxtaposing oral histories of women in joint marriages with interviews conducted with government officers in the region, she will discuss the ways in which official discourses on marriage, love and sexuality serve as proxy for caste.
Himika Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Syracuse University
Sponsored by the South Asia Center at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs