Pint of View Lecture Over Drinks: Gender & Patriarchy Explained
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**About the event**
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**About the Lecture**
What is gender? And what is patriarchy?
Do these categories affect only women, or can they shape men as well? Or people that live beyond the binary? Or, society itself?
What is the relationship between gender and patriarchy? How do we understand power? Further, what IS feminism? Is it activism? Or is it theory?
Is it about thought, ideas and concepts? Is it about causes and explanations? About effects and solutions? Is it social theory, or not? If yes, what kind of social theory is it?
This lecture aims to debunk some myths about feminism. It aims to unpack some of the above questions; it aims to put forward languages and ways of thinking to analyse gender and patriarchy in our worlds. It aims to introduce feminism - as theory building, as knowledge production.
**About the Speaker**
Dr. Gita Chadha is professor at the School of Art & Sciences at Azim Premji University. In her teaching career of over three decades, she has taught at undergraduate colleges of Mumbai University and on the international programme of the University of London in Mumbai. She designed and taught a first-of-its-kind course in Feminist Science Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai. She has outlined innovative pedagogic initiatives for integrating science and social science teaching for CSCS, Bengaluru and for the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru.
A PhD in Sociology from the University of Mumbai, her thesis, “Gender, Scientific Intuition and Genius: A Feminist Perspective”, argued that intuition as an epistemic category is both marginalised and appropriated in the making of scientific knowledge.
Her research writings have been in the areas of science studies, sociological reimaginations of a feminist sociology and methodological debates in research. Gita has been the Chairperson of the University Women’s Development Cell of the University of Mumbai. She has developed frameworks for feminist archiving at the Research Centre for Women’s Studies, SNDT University, Mumbai, India and at the NCBS Archives in Bengaluru.
**Event Details**
📅 Sunday, 25 October
🕛 1 PM – 3 PM
📍 Maize & Malt, ITPL Main Road, Bangalore [4 mins from metro]
**Your ticket includes:**
• 1 complimentary freshly brewed beer or mocktail
• First-come, first-served seating
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