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Bodies of Evidence: "Marriage and its Troubles"

Date:
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Location:
Young Library Auditorium
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Emily Burrill, Anastasia Curwood, Srimati Basu

Emily Burrill is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Director of the African Studies Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  She is the author of States of Marriage: Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali.  She is co-editor of Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa.  Dr. Burrill’s research focuses on the history of marriage and marriage-related practices, and women and citizenship rights in post-colonial Africa.

Anastasia Curwood is Assistant Professor of History and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky.  She was a Visiting Fellow at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, Emory University, from 2012-2014.  She is the author of Stormy Weather: Middle-Class African American Marriages Between the Two World Wars.

Srimati Basu is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky.  She is also a member of the Committee on Social Theory and the Asia Center Affiliates.  Her latest book is The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India.

This panel will present research on the institution of marriage in transnational contexts and the sites of legal and domestic violence within marriage.

Reception to follow in the Alumni Gallery.

Sponsored by the Dept. of Gender & Women's studies and the Gaines Center for the Humanities.