School of Social and Political Science

Description

In this event, we welcome four researchers from our CRFR network at advanced stages of their doctoral research to deliver a series of presentations that attend to how dominant cultural norms impinge upon various forms of coupledom. Focusing on India and Kazakhstan, it brings together various sites of the hetero-normative imaginary, including university spaces, caste and kin networks, marriage practices, and wedding rituals.

Programme

• Chandreyee Goswami: From friendship to romance: the many contours of cross-gender sociality in university spaces in northeast India
• Sambhavi Ganesh: Scripting a Marriage: Narratives of Continuity and Change in Marriage-Making among Tamil Brahmins
• Laura Makhulbayeva: Intimacy, Agency, ‘Consent’: Intricate Marriage Formation Practices in South Kazakhstan
• Neerja Pathak: ‘I do not want to change my name’: Refusal within marriage as windows to marriage

The full programme is available at the Eventbrite link below. This is a hybrid event. If you register to attend online, you will be sent a joining link for Microsoft Teams before the event starts.