I spoke on feminist pedagogy and Pedagogies of Care at two different workshops in the last 10 days, to reflect that building friendships and creating discomfort are essential to pedagogy. The two can coexist. Niharika Banerjea Rituparna Patgiri International Feminist Journal of Politics @RC09_ISA @ResearchLex ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics

Thanks to Riddhi B. and Siddhi for bringing us together in this symposium. Thanks to Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies and Wenner-Gren Foundation for supporting a space and conversations like these

New publication looking at marriages, breaking caste/community norms, negotiations with family and 'mother blaming' ⁦ISA Global Dialogue⁩ ⁦Gender & Development Network⁩ ⁦PLD-India⁩ ⁦@RC09_ISA⁩ ⁦International Feminist Journal of Politics⁩ ⁦Gender Justice⁩ ⁦@SharronAFitzGe1⁩Jagori Delhi⁩

Another semester ends with Relationships and Affinities. A deeply transformative, each time I teach. Remain grateful to students for exploring concepts, ideas, practices 'beyond kinship'. Also five MA dissertation students proudly holding their thesis Doing Sociology @RC09_ISA

After 2 years of Dean SHRM, I deliver an academic lecture on 'Future of Heritage Management & Community Participation' for a short term course organised by SAGE University, Bhopal. I remain in core areas- law, policy, pedagogy Delhi Archives INTACH DELHI CHAPTER National Gallery of Modern Art New Delhi Bengal Heritage Foundation 🇮🇳 🇬🇧

Christ University & Indian Sociological Society organised FDP. I spoke on 'Emancipatory paradigms in Social Science research' using sociological works with emancipatory potential connecting them to my research on autobiography and the legal Doing Sociology ISA Global Dialogue ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics @ResearchLex

Happy to share epw.in/journal/review… RWS has been a space for creating feminist consciousness over years. Writing here after 2010 with Aishwarya Rajeev Thanks Prabha Kotiswaran Maya John Ritu Diwan Economic & Political Weekly ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics @RC09_ISA @ResearchLex International Feminist Journal of Politics Breakthrough CENTRE FOR WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

What an emotional match the 2024 semifinals was. While Paolini will play the finals, Vekic played, cried, pained her way through the longest women's semifinal match in Wimbledon history. Both women were such a pleasure to watch.

Through RG Kar incident, I write on safety of women in workplace, women doctors/medical profession. What about Nirbhaya Fund? What does data on doctors suicide say? doingsociology.org/2024/08/20/wom… ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics @ResearchLex ISA @RC09_ISA LSE Gender @genderpol Sangrami Gharelu-kamgar Union (SGU)

Final chance to join the Archaeology and Conservation programme. Call for non CUET applications till 25th August. Apply now and if selected enter the world of exciting heritage theory and practice INTACH DELHI CHAPTER Archaeological Survey of India Delhi Heritage Walks Ekta Chauhan National Gallery of Modern Art New Delhi The Partition Museum

Enjoyed and learnt so much by moderating the closing panel of the International Conference on Family Laws in South Asia. Three powerful speakers from Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan on feminist solidarities, fissures, slow legal reforms JGLS Saumya Maheshwari PLD-India

Talking to fresh batches of Sociology BA students reminds me of my first day at Presidency College. An Orientation lecture at Hindu College with 150 students, their curiosity, anxiety suggests journeys the discipline has made in Indian academia Doing Sociology ISA

Wonderful ISS RC 10 (Gender Studies) mid term conference. Presented on doing feminist sociology in classroom & research. Chaired a session on theoretical transformations on religion and ecology. Brilliant hosts and student volunteers of KC College Doing Sociology ISA

Was at Cividep India for report launch The Home and the World of Work, researched by Dr Supriya Roychowdhuri, senior from Presidency College. Panel with Neethi, Madhu Bhushan and Indrani moderating on women and work, labour and women's movements coming together CENTRE FOR WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT STUDIES @RC09_ISA

Submit abstracts to this session proposed by me at ISA Forum 2025 by 15th October and spread the word @RC09_ISA Doing Sociology ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics International Feminist Journal of Politics Niharika Banerjea Debarati Sen Abhilasha Chattopadhyay Sayantan Datta

The year ended with 49th Indian Sociological Society conference at BML Munjal University (BMU) where I presented on a new idea, chaired a session on Phule Ambedkarite feminist pedagogy and was a discussant in RC Theory and Method with wonderful papers on gender and disability @RC09_ISA Doing Sociology