BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:142@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241010T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241010T183000 DTSTAMP:20241007T140453Z URL:https://sds.utoronto.ca/events/oceanic-sex/ SUMMARY:Oceanic Sex: Archives of Caste and Indenture with Anjali Arondekar DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin us on October 10\, 2024 from 5PM to 6:30PM in Room VC1 15 (Victoria College) for the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies' annual Michael Lynch Distinguished Lecturer Series. This year's talk will feature Anjali Arondekar\, Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. See below for more information about their ta lk titled "Oceanic Sex: Archives of Caste and Indenture."\n\nOceanic Sex: Archives of Caste and Indenture\n\nWhile Mauritius is the place from which my meditations emerge\, it is also an “area impossible\,” an epistemo logy of geopolitics that strays from a literal understanding of sexuality and caste in/and South Asia and the broader Indian Ocean world. Even as th e turn to Oceanic Sex enables myriad geographies of affiliation\, how ca n such affiliations summon genealogies of the past and the future that rea d routes of indenture and archives anew? Indenture is the archival interre gnum– where our attachments to counter-archives\, origin-stories\, run a muck. If archives of indenture are marked\, indeed flooded with markers of identification that suture presence to labor\, what happens to the labor of caste and sexuality that lives unaccounted within economies of such enu meration? Let us imagine that history together.\n\nAnjali Arondekar is P eggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Professor of Feminist Studies . She was the founding Director\, Center for South Asian Studies\, Univers ity of California\, Santa Cruz\, 2020-24. Her research engages the compara tive poetics and politics of sexuality\, caste\, and historiography\, with a focus on Indian Ocean Studies and South Asia. She is the author of For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (Duke Univers ity Press\, 2009\, Orient Blackswan\, India\, 2010)\, winner of the Alan B ray Memorial Book Award for best book in lesbian\, gay\, or queer studies in literature and cultural studies\, Modern Language Association (MLA)\, 2 010. She is co-editor (with Geeta Patel) of “Area Impossible: The Geopol itics of Queer Studies\,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2 016)\, and (with Sherene Seikaly) of “Pandemic Histories\,” History o f the Present (2022). Her second book\, Abundance: Sexuality’s History  (Duke University Press\, 2023\, Orient Blackswan\, 2023)\, grows out of her interest in the archival figurations of sexuality\, caste and historio graphy in British and Portuguese colonial India. Arondekar is currently wo rking on a third project\, tentatively entitled\, Oceanic Sex: Archives o f Caste and Indenture\, that couples the archival forms of indenture with the oceanic voyages of caste and sexuality.\n\nWebsite: anjaliarondekar.si tes.ucsc.edu\n\nDirections to Victoria College\n\n[pdf-embedder url="http: //sds.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/Lynch-Lecture-2024-Directions-compres sed.pdf" title="Lynch Lecture 2024 Directions-compressed"]\n\n \;\n\nA ccessible Entrance Directions\n\n[pdf-embedder url="http://sds.utoronto.ca /wp-content/uploads/Lynch-Lecture-2024-Accessible-Entrance-compressed.pdf" title="Lynch Lecture 2024 Accessible Entrance-compressed"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sds.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/LYNCH -Final-min-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR