May 04 2025 to May 04 2025 11 a.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Indian social and economic life have undergone a rapid digital transformation in recent years. How has this digital environment altered both the scale of the problem of sexual violence as well as ways to respond to this problem? In her lecture, Dr. Ashwini Tambe will detail new types of harms engendered by digital technologies, how standards for evidence have changed, and how digital mobilisation against sexual violence has unfolded. She will also discuss the pitfalls of responding to violence purely through conventional legal routes, drawing on the experience of those doing crisis-intervention work.

A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Speaker

Ashwini Tambe
Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, George Washington University
Ashwini Tambe is Director of WGSS and Professor of History and WGSS at George Washington University. Dr. Tambe focuses on the relationship between law, gender, and sexuality in transnational South Asian history. She is also the Editorial Director of Feminist Studies, the oldest journal of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship in the United States. Over the past two decades, she has written about how South Asian societies regulate sexual practices. Her 2009 book Codes of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay (University of Minnesota Press) traces how law-making and law-enforcement practices shaped the rise of the city’s red light district. Her 2019 book Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational Approach to Sexual Maturity Laws (University of Illinois Press) explores how the expectation of sexual innocence is distributed in uneven ways for girls across class and caste groups. Both books examine the direction and flow of transnational influences. Her new book Transnational Feminist Itineraries (Duke University Press 2021, co-edited with Millie Thayer), features essays by leading gender studies scholars confronting authoritarianism and religious and economic fundamentalism.