A Webinar on “Understanding Transgender as a Category” was organised on 13th December, 2021 by the Department of Sociology. Invited speaker for the event was Dr. Sebanti Chatterjee. Dr Chatterjee specialises in the anthropology of Sound Studies with special interest in the fields of Gender, Religion as well as Culture.
Dr. Chatterjee very lucidly explained the various categories related to Gender and Sex. She used Sara Ahmed’s an affinity of hammers, Gayle Rubin’s thinking sex: notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality, Vaibhav saria-Begging for change: Hijras, law and nationalism and other such literary works that made the participants remain intrigued with the Talk. She talked about how sex is different from gender and how gender referred to a matter of culture and a social categorization of people as masculine or feminine. She also analysed various feminist ideologies that evaluated subjugation of lesbians in terms of oppression of women as well as labelling them as queer and perverts. Dr. Chatterjee expounded sexuality as political and how it is ordered into systems of power, which reward and encourage certain individuals while suppressing and punishing others. She elucidated how trans activism is pitted against critical feminist activism.
Her talk was followed by a very energetic question answer session in which almost all students participated in great fervour. It could be concluded that the entire session was rather fascinating as well as informative.
The Sun, the sky and the stars intrigue us irrespective of our academic and professional backgrounds and the students of The Bhawanipur Education Society College were beyond honored to have Dr. Debiprosad Duari, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, educator and researcher to share his words of wisdom with them. Dr. Duari is associated with NASA …
The Department of History, of The Bhawanipur Education Society, arranged an invited lecture on 27th November 2020 entitled ‘Indo-Bangladesh Relations Since 1971’. Retired Indian diplomat and Ambassador Shri Rajendra Rai was invited to deliver the special talk. The webinar began at 6:30 pm and was conducted through the medium of Google Meet. Introducing his talk …
“Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.” — 14th Dalai Lama The Bhawanipur Education Society College conducted a workshop on Human Rights Education. It was a two-day workshop conducted by Ms. Shaleen Das on 29th November, 2023 and 30th November, 2023, …
Expression is an intrinsic phenomenon of human life. Our forms of expression often leave an indelible mark on the happenings in society. And expression doesn’t have any limitations. Its arena is broad as much as we can extend. The Bhawanipur Education Society College promotes this fundamental notion and hosted a selection for ‘Best out of …
Understanding Transgender as a Category
A Webinar on “Understanding Transgender as a Category” was organised on 13th December, 2021 by the Department of Sociology. Invited speaker for the event was Dr. Sebanti Chatterjee. Dr Chatterjee specialises in the anthropology of Sound Studies with special interest in the fields of Gender, Religion as well as Culture.
Dr. Chatterjee very lucidly explained the various categories related to Gender and Sex. She used Sara Ahmed’s an affinity of hammers, Gayle Rubin’s thinking sex: notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality, Vaibhav saria-Begging for change: Hijras, law and nationalism and other such literary works that made the participants remain intrigued with the Talk. She talked about how sex is different from gender and how gender referred to a matter of culture and a social categorization of people as masculine or feminine. She also analysed various feminist ideologies that evaluated subjugation of lesbians in terms of oppression of women as well as labelling them as queer and perverts. Dr. Chatterjee expounded sexuality as political and how it is ordered into systems of power, which reward and encourage certain individuals while suppressing and punishing others. She elucidated how trans activism is pitted against critical feminist activism.
Her talk was followed by a very energetic question answer session in which almost all students participated in great fervour. It could be concluded that the entire session was rather fascinating as well as informative.
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The Sun, the sky and the stars intrigue us irrespective of our academic and professional backgrounds and the students of The Bhawanipur Education Society College were beyond honored to have Dr. Debiprosad Duari, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, educator and researcher to share his words of wisdom with them. Dr. Duari is associated with NASA …
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The Department of History, of The Bhawanipur Education Society, arranged an invited lecture on 27th November 2020 entitled ‘Indo-Bangladesh Relations Since 1971’. Retired Indian diplomat and Ambassador Shri Rajendra Rai was invited to deliver the special talk. The webinar began at 6:30 pm and was conducted through the medium of Google Meet. Introducing his talk …
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Expression is an intrinsic phenomenon of human life. Our forms of expression often leave an indelible mark on the happenings in society. And expression doesn’t have any limitations. Its arena is broad as much as we can extend. The Bhawanipur Education Society College promotes this fundamental notion and hosted a selection for ‘Best out of …