Prof Nivedita Menon to deliver Professor Pradeep Kumar Memorial Lecture

Chandigarh, November 16, 2015: School of International Studies, Jawarharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Prof Nivedita Menon would deliver Professor Pradeep Kumar Memorial Lecture on 'Women's Rights to Land and the Challenge of the Commons' on November 18 at Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh. 

Prof Nivedita Menon would deliver the lecture at Seminar Hall, Golden Jubilee Guest House on 11.30 AM. The lecture is being organised by the PU Department of Political Science.

Professor at Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, Nivedita Menon is the author of Seeing like a Feminist (2012). Apart from research papers in Indian and international journals, her previous books are Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law (2004); and a book co-written with Aditya Nigam Power and Contestation: India after 1989 (2007). She also has two edited volumes Gender and Politics in India (1999) and Sexualities (2007); and a book

co-edited with Aditya Nigam and Sanjay Palshikar, Critical Studies in Politics: Exploring Sites, Selves, Power (2013). 

Prof Menon is also a regular commentator on contemporary issues on the collective blog kafila.org (of which she is one of the founders), and active in democratic politics in India. She also has translated fiction and non-fiction from Hindi and Malayalam into English, and from Malayalam into Hindi, and received the AK Ramanujan Award for translation instituted by Katha./ (SK Vyas, Jalandhar)