Dispersed Radiance: Presentation on gender and science in India

Who:                     Abha Sur, MIT

When:                  Thursday April 4 5 to 7 p.m.

 

Where:                 AVW 4172

URL:

http://wmst.umd.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Trnatl-Asia-Colloquium-pdf3.pdf 

Abha Sur is a scientist turned historian of science. Her book "Dispersed

Radiance: Caste, Gender, and Modern

Science in India" (New Delhi: Navayana, 2011) examines the confluence of caste, nationalism, and gender in science and unpacks the colonial context in which science was organized.

In one chapter, the author traces the journey of three women students who worked in the laboratory of C.V. Raman, India’s Nobel laureate for physics, awarded in 1930.

Follow these links for more information on Abha and the book as well as related discussions on women in science today:

http://web.mit.edu/wgs/people/sur.html

http://navayana.org/dispersed-radiance-caste-gender-and-modern-science-in-india/

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/global-observer/do-women-scientists-in-india-still-face-discrimination/2884