International Women’s Day Lunch: A bite-sized dive into feminist research

In the lead-up to International Women’s Day, we warmly invite you for a quick dose of brainfood. During this 30-minute lunch talk, we’ll sit down with Barnita Bagchi and take a dive into the stories of Rabindranath Tagore, a pioneering voice who wrote powerfully about women’s autonomy in colonial Bengal. We’ll close the programme with a spoken word performance by Asmae Amaddaou. Take a break with free sandwich, learn something new and take a moment to reflect on International Women’s Day and the many stories that still need telling.

About the programme

Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941, Nobel Prize-winning author, poet, educator, and social experimenter to boot, wrote many short stories that feminist and gender studies scholars find compelling. Barnita Bagchi has translated three of his short stories from Bengali for an Oxford World Classics edition of Tagore’s selected short stories forthcoming this spring, edited by Sumit Chakrabarti.

In this talk, she will speak on how both masculinity and femininity are anatomised in these short stories, with special attention to a short story titled “The Judge”.

The talk is curated by VOX-POP.

Programme overview

12.15 - 12.30 Walk-in
12.30 - 12.32 Programme's opening by Imogen Mills
12.32 - 12.40 Mini lecture by Professor Barnita Bagchi
12.40 - 12.55 Q&A with Barnita, Imogen and questions from the audience
12.55 - 13:00 Spoken word performance by Asmae Amaddaou

Practical information

We’ll be providing sandwiches during the session! While the event is free to attend, please book your place so we know how many people to cater for. You can find us in the Salon at the City Centre University Library – this is the open space located on floor -1.

About the speakers