WORCESTER, MA-Clark University Graduate School of Geography's Atwood Lecture Series will present "From Feminist Fieldwork to Collaborative Praxis," by Richa Nagar, associate professor at the University of Minnesota. This free, public lecture will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, in the Grace Conference Room of the Higgins University Center, 950 Main Street.
Professor Nagar's research has focused on the politics of space, identity and community among South Asians in Tanzania and, more recently, on the complex politics of empowerment and disempowerment in women's grassroots organizations in North India.
Professor Nagar received her Ph.D. in 1989 at the University of Minnesota, where she was also a MacArthur Fellow. She served as 2005-06 Residential Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Professor Nagar grew up in Lucknow, India, where she was the first of her family to learn English. She writes ". the stark contrasts between my school environment and my neighborhood streets made me acutely aware of class, caste and social location . It was the women activists at Awadh College in Lucknow and at the University of Poona, whose voices against dowry, rape, communalism, and caste-ism sowed the seeds of feminism inside me."
The Wallace W. Atwood Lecture Series honors the founder and first director of the Graduate School of Geography and President of Clark University (1921-46). The series annually presents eminent speakers in the field of geography.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Graduate School of Geography at 508- 793-7282.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 800 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the United States, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the accelerated BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition-free for eligible students. The University is featured in Loren Pope's book, "Colleges That Change Lives."