Second Floor Common Room, Heyman Center
Dalit Journeys for Dignity is a facilitated discussion about the radical, field-shifting subfield of Dalit Studies within South Asian Studies. This event centers around the publication of this second volume, the Dalit Studies Volume Two (April 2025, SUNY Press and Permanent Black), using this occasion to reflect on the developments in this field since its formal inauguration with the Dalit Studies (Duke, 2016) by Ramnarayan S. Rawat (Delaware) and Kusuma Satyanarayana (EFL-U, Hyderabad) now close to a decade ago. It extends the discussion to a broader examination of the field’s affinities with other newer interdisciplinary subfields, such as Critical Caste Studies, Gender and Caste, or more established ones, like Black Studies.
Register here: https://sofheyman.org/events/dalit-journeys-for-dignity
Organized by The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities; co-sponsored by the Ambedkar Initiative, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department.
