Feminist Studies Department at UCSC

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11:00am -12:30pm Presentation of undergraduate research in Feminist Studies

12...:30 – 1:30pm Reception

We request that you RSVP by June 4th. Please tell us how many guests you will bring and if you would like to present your senior thesis, project, or seminar paper.*

Parking will be reserved in Cowell Lot 109. Permits are available at the Feminist Studies Office (315 Humanities 1) between June 3-11.

* Presenting your work at the senior celebration is a great way to show your family and friends how much you've accomplished at UCSC. Presentations generally last 5-7 minutes, with an introduction by your faculty advisor, if present. For more information, call 459-2461 or e-mail fmst@ucsc.edu. Please inform us of your decision to present by June 4th.

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This talk speaks to the commonly held view that Sri Lanka’s political economy rests on the back of its ‘garment girls’ and ‘army boys.’ Against the background of two critical events in the island’s recent postcolonial history – its insertion into a liberalized ‘open economy’ in 1977 and its protracted armed conflict – ...this talk considers the intersections of transnational capital, labor, and national security on the sites of Sri Lanka’s Free Trade Zones. It accounts for how the State mediates the twin rationalities of globalization and militarization, and their impact on the subjectivities of the women who work in the apparel industry and the men who join the Sri Lanka military. Bringing into play gender, security and cultural studies, this talk highlights issues of violence against women, risk, and resistance to point to the conditions under which new social imaginaries are being formed in Sri Lanka today.

Neloufer de Mel is Professor of English at the Dept. of English, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and the author of Militarizing Sri Lanka: Popular Culture, Memory and Narrative in the Armed Conflict (2007), and Women and the Nation’s Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in 20th Century Sri Lanka (2001). The co-editor of volumes such as After the Waves: the Impact of the Tsunami on Women in Sri Lanka (2009) and At the Cutting Edge: Essays in Honor of Kumari Jayawardena (2007), she was the principal researcher of the Bearing Witness: Women’s Experiences of Armed Conflict in Sri Lanka video archive (2005). The recipient of many distinguished research awards including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, she is currently a Women, Religion and Globalization Fellow at Yale University.

For more information or to request special accommodations please contact breana@ucsc.edu or 459-4324.Read More