A Webinar on “Understanding Transgender as a Category” was organised on 13th December, 2021 by the Department of Sociology. Invited speaker for the event was Dr. Sebanti Chatterjee. Dr Chatterjee specialises in the anthropology of Sound Studies with special interest in the fields of Gender, Religion as well as Culture.
Dr. Chatterjee very lucidly explained the various categories related to Gender and Sex. She used Sara Ahmed’s an affinity of hammers, Gayle Rubin’s thinking sex: notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality, Vaibhav saria-Begging for change: Hijras, law and nationalism and other such literary works that made the participants remain intrigued with the Talk. She talked about how sex is different from gender and how gender referred to a matter of culture and a social categorization of people as masculine or feminine. She also analysed various feminist ideologies that evaluated subjugation of lesbians in terms of oppression of women as well as labelling them as queer and perverts. Dr. Chatterjee expounded sexuality as political and how it is ordered into systems of power, which reward and encourage certain individuals while suppressing and punishing others. She elucidated how trans activism is pitted against critical feminist activism.
Her talk was followed by a very energetic question answer session in which almost all students participated in great fervour. It could be concluded that the entire session was rather fascinating as well as informative.
The English Department of The Bhawanipur Education Society College organized Rethinking Romanticism: Looking through the Oriental Glass, a two-day international seminar on 10th and 11th January, 2020. It was the culmination of a year-long project on Romanticism (IQAC Approved) spanning from 2019 to 2020, organized by the Department of English of The Bhawanipur College in …
UMANG 2014 RESULTS OF DAY 3 (21ST DECEMBER 2014) GROUP : FINE ARTS SL NO. NAME OF EVENT 1ST POSITION 2ND POSITION 3RD POSITION 1 NAIL ART IC CODE 14 (OTSE 3) IC CODE 14 (OTSE 01) IC CODE 01 GROUP : VOICES IN ACTION SL NO. NAME OF EVENT 1ST POSITION 2ND POSITION 3RD …
Selection Trial for the College Basketball Team for Boys & Girls was held on 1st & 2nd October 2015 at Rakhi Sangha Club (Near Chetla Park).134 Boys & 150 Girls participated in the trials of College Football Team 2015 – 16 .There was skill and talent in all of the players.Trial started with Warm up, Stretching and Basketball Drills and followed …
Understanding Transgender as a Category
A Webinar on “Understanding Transgender as a Category” was organised on 13th December, 2021 by the Department of Sociology. Invited speaker for the event was Dr. Sebanti Chatterjee. Dr Chatterjee specialises in the anthropology of Sound Studies with special interest in the fields of Gender, Religion as well as Culture.
Dr. Chatterjee very lucidly explained the various categories related to Gender and Sex. She used Sara Ahmed’s an affinity of hammers, Gayle Rubin’s thinking sex: notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality, Vaibhav saria-Begging for change: Hijras, law and nationalism and other such literary works that made the participants remain intrigued with the Talk. She talked about how sex is different from gender and how gender referred to a matter of culture and a social categorization of people as masculine or feminine. She also analysed various feminist ideologies that evaluated subjugation of lesbians in terms of oppression of women as well as labelling them as queer and perverts. Dr. Chatterjee expounded sexuality as political and how it is ordered into systems of power, which reward and encourage certain individuals while suppressing and punishing others. She elucidated how trans activism is pitted against critical feminist activism.
Her talk was followed by a very energetic question answer session in which almost all students participated in great fervour. It could be concluded that the entire session was rather fascinating as well as informative.
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