Global Asias
Sponsors: The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, The Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America (CPRA), RU-N Cultural Programming, Global Asia.
Please join us for “The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia,” a roundtable discussion on the role of language and modernism featuring Christopher Bush (Northwestern), Jennifer Dubrow (University of Washington), Toral Gajarawala (NYU), Rudrani Gangopadhyay (Rutgers), Gregory Goulding (U Penn), Preetha Mani (Rutgers), and Anjali Nerlekar (Rutgers).
The Program in Cinema Studies is organizing a special screening of Suman Mukhopadhyay’s recent film THE PUPPET’S TALE on November 18, 2025 from 5:30 PM at the Teleconference Lecture Hall (TLH-4th floor) inAlexander Library, College Ave Campus. The event is co-sponsored by AMESALL, South Asian Studies Program, the Global Asias Initiative, and Rutgers Libraries.
In this talk I will discuss how they rearticulated scientific mothering, nationalist maternalism, and Islamic ideals of motherhood to create a public voice through gendered care work, and the methodological challenges of doing so.
