Gender Equity and Sensitization Programmes:
REPORT OF EVENTS
In order to sensitize students and staff about gender discrimination and disparity, the college regularly organises seminars, workshops and awareness programmes. In the current pandemic situation webinars have been organised that has witnessed enthusiastic participation as is evident in the details of the programmes given below.
2020
International Webinar on “Postcolonialisms: Women and Current Configurations” was organized by the Advanced Research Centre for Indian Writing in English and the Women’s Studies Centre of the college on 21st and 22nd September 2020. On the first day Dr. Sourit Bhattacharcya, Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, spoke on “Postcolonial Studies: Current Configurations”. On day 2 Dr. Arunima Bhattacharya IASH Fellow, University of Edinburgh, Research Associate on AHRC funded project, School of History, University of Leeds, spoke on “Women, Nation and Colonial Modernity in Partha Chatterjee’s The Nation and its Fragments“.
Webinar on “Her Story: Women’s Movements in India” was organized by the Advanced Research Centre for Indian Writing in English and the Women’s Studies Centre of the college on 28th and 29th August 2020. On the first day, Professor Siuli Sarkar, Principal and Professor of Political Science, Lady Brabourne College, spoke on “Women’s Movements in India: Past and Present”. On the second day, Dr. Aparna Bandyopadhyay, Associate Professor of History, Diamond Harbour Women’s University, spoke on “Was there a Feminist Movement in Colonial India?”.
Webinar on “Rassundari Devi’s Room of her Own” was organized by the Advanced Research Centre for Indian Writing in English and the Women’s Studies Centre, Lady Brabourne College in collaboration with the Post Graduate Department of English, St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College, Kolkata, on 5th and 6th August 2020. Professor Siuli Sarkar, Principal and Professor of Political Science, Lady Brabourne College, spoke on “Rassundari’s Amar Jiban: Contemporary Society and Politics of Bengal”. On the second day, Dr Anasuya Bhar Dean of Post Graduate Studies, St Paul’s Cathedral Mission College spoke on “Amar Jiban: The Autobiography of a Bengali Wife”.
International Women’s Day & Foundation Day was celebrated by the Women’s Studies Centre by organizing an Awareness & Gender Sensitization Programme on Saturday, 7th March 2020 (8th March being Sunday). A play ‘Aste Ladies’ was performed by ‘Udan’, a theatre group of Bengal.
‘Women in Media – A Journey Shared’ – a Panel Discussion with women journalists of leading media houses of Kolkata organized by the IQAC of the college on 6th March, 2020.
‘Gandhi and Women’ on 10th January, 2020- Commemorating 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi the Women’s Studies Centre organized an International Seminar with lectures delivered by Prof. Geraldine Forbes, distinguished teaching Professor Emerita, Department of History, State University of New York, Oswego on “Gandhi and Sarala Devi: Lost Letters and Women’s History”. Professor Debi Chatterjee, retired Professor, Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, also spoke on “Women in Gandhi’s Vision and Movements”.