This LSE Conversation, chaired by Professor Shakuntala Banaji, brings together leading scholars Mary Evans, Clare Hemmings, and Niraja Gopal Jayal who research and teach on questions of social and political transformation in contemporary times. As academics, their work has straddled both scholarly and political questions of academic freedom, academic integrity as well as shaping the world for social justice.
Clare Hemmings will consider questions of affect and temporality as central to the dynamics of anti-feminist mobilisations both within and outside the academy.
Clare Hemmings is Professor of Feminist Theory at the Department of Gender Studies, LSE
Niraja Gopal Jayal will discuss the impact of neo-nationalism and neo-liberalism on the Indian academy.
Niraja Gopal Jayal is Centennial Professor at the Department of Gender Studies, LSE and Avantha Chair & Professor of Politics at King’s College London.
Mary Evans will speak on the importance of refusing nostalgia about UK universities and will draw attention to the ways in which certain key mechanisms of control have become the norm.
Mary Evans is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Gender Studies, LSE
Shakuntala Banaji will chair the discussion drawing on her research about social media and histories of hate; and the consequences for human rights and free speech for targeted groups.
Shakuntala Banaji is Professor of Media, Culture and Social Change at the Department of Media and Communications, LSE