Dr. Insha Malik, a visiting researcher of Iliauni, will read a lecture “Gendered Protests and Mourning: Affective Sites of Contemporary Feminist Politics and Muslim Sovereignty” within the framework of “Tbilisi as an Urban Intersection Space”, the Fundamental Research Project of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and Rustaveli National Science Foundation in the A103 auditorium of Ilia State University on December 2, at 17:00.

Dr. Inshah Malik is a political theorist and a gender studies scholar. She received her PhD in Comparative Politics and Political Theory from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was a researcher of Yale University and a visiting professor at Northwestern and University of Washington. She worked as an assistant professor in Afghanistan before its government collapsed.

Her research interests include political theory, history of Islam, political movements, internet activism, and gender studies in the Caucuses, Central and South Asia, particularly Georgia, Iran, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Kashmir, where she has traveled and conducted extensive research.

Inshah’s ethnographic work on the Kashmir region, located north of India, was published in the form of a monograph Muslim Women, Agency and Resistance Politics: The Case of Kashmir (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Inshah Malik is currently a visiting researcher at Ilia State University.

Working language: English

Time: December 2, 17:00

Location: A103 auditorium of Ilia State University, I. Chavchavadze Ave. N32

Attendance is free.

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