Stanford TAPS Book Talk | Innovative Scholarship by TAPS Alumni

Date – May 31, 2024. 11:30am-1pm. Stanford University Online Webinar via Zoom Guest – Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti Event Website Zoom Discussion – In 2023/2024, TAPS Alums produced a number of groundbreaking books in the field. This event celebrates the publication of Gigi Otálvaro’s Erotic Resistance: The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco (University of California Press), Kellen Hoxworth’s Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance (Northwestern University Press), Sukanya Chakrabarti’s In-Between Worlds: Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism (Routledge), and Kari Barclay’s Directing Desire: Intimacy Choreography and Consent in…

Session with Ms. Navi Pillay

Ms. Navi Pillay served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008-2014. May 2015, Stanford Faculty Club, Gold Room Reflections When I realized I was assigned a seat at the table where Navi Pillay would be sitting, I was both excited and intimidated at the same time. I did not know how approachable, friendly and ‘human’ she is till we started talking – first about my research and interests, then about her childhood, growing up as a South African in a Tamil household, while being recognized and…