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The Quarterly Newsletter of South Asian University | Volume 4 Issue 3 March 2020

NepalLectureSeries
SAU FSS News (31.01.2020) New Delhi: The Department of Sociology, FSS launched its monthly Nepal
Lecture Series on 31 January 2020. H.E. Nilambar Acharya, Ambassador of Nepal to India made the
opening remarks where he emphasized the importance of bilateral and multilateral intellectual
engagementsinfurtheringregionalisminSouthAsia.

The first lecture in this series
was delivered by Mr Hari
Sharma from Social Science
Baha Nepal on “History of
Intellectual and Social
Exchanges between India and
Nepal: A Personal Reflection”.
This lecture was based on his
critical readings and personal
engagements with Indian
scholars and intellectuals on
development and nation-
building in South Asia, spread
overtheperiodoffivedecades.

Eminent journalist Bharat Bhushan provided comments on Mr Sharma's lecture and commented on the
richness of exchange and engagement between public intellectuals from Nepal and India since
independence.DrPromodiniVarma,DirectorofAdmissions,SAUchairedthelecture.Thislectureseriesis
curated by Dr. Mallika Shakya, Assistant Professor and Department Coordinator, Department of
SociologyanditissupportedbytheBPKoiralaNepal-IndiaFoundation(BPKF).

ContributionstoContemporaryKnowledgeAnnualLecture

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SAU F S News (28-29 2
.0 .2020) New Delhi: Department of Sociology, South Asian University, in
collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (South Asia), organized the Contributions to Contemporary
Knowledge Annual Lecture on 10 December 2019, at the Akbar Bhawan campus of SAU. The lecture, titled
“LiberatingWomen from'PoliticalEconomy': Social-reproductionApproachto Gender Oppression”, was
delivered by Professor Tithi Bhattacharya. Professor Bhattacharya teaches South Asian History at Purdue
University, and is the Director of their Global Studies programme. She is the author of The Sentinels of
Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial
Intellectual in Bengal, editor of Social
Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class,
Recentering Oppression, and co-author of
Feminismforthe99%.Thelecturelookedat
the necessity of re-visiting the category of
'work' itself. She delved into an
unresolved tension which she believes
exists at the heart of Marxist explanations
for women's oppression under capitalism.
The event was coordinated by Dr Ravi
Kumar.

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