BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The South Asia Center at the Moynihan Institute in conjunction with the Anthropology Department and SU School of Education presents Carme l Christy from Delhi University. \;The elite higher educational instit utions (HEIs) in India have often turned out to be sites of struggle for D alitbahujan (DB) students rather than fulfilling their egalitarian promise . Since the early 2000s\, the anti-caste\, Ambedkarite student movements h ave created a sense of resistance against prevalent forms of caste discrim ination on campuses. Despite this\, DB students experience implicit and ex plicit forms of caste discrimination\, often leading to a high number of d rop-out rates\, indescribable forms of trauma\, and sometimes even suicide s. Other than overt forms\, caste discrimination is also perpetuated throu gh unspoken\, embodied acts which are harder to articulate. These habituat ed everyday forms of differentiation and discrimination beyond legal parla nce make the HEIs dreaded sites where\, leave alone thriving\, even surviv ing becomes tough. This silent and normalized casteist embodiment of the H EIs keep outcasting DB students on campuses. In short\, the HEIs perpetuat e a savarna sensorium\, i.e.\, an aesthetics and ethos which negates not j ust the intellectual pursuits of DBs but also casts their bodies and ‘bein g’ as unwanted in these spaces. Based on ethnographic accounts of DB women students\, the paper signposts the need to understand embodied\, affectiv e forms of interactions as crucial to unpacking caste on Indian campuses.& nbsp\;Carmel Christy K J is an assistant professor of journalism at Kamala Nehru College\, University of Delhi. Currently\, she is a postdoctoral re search associate at The Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute\, Universi ty of Connecticut. She has published on the intersectionality of caste and gender\, the interrelationship between land\, caste and gender\; caste di scrimination in Indian higher educational institutions as well as on displ acement\, religion and urban space-making. She is working on her next mono graph about urban space-making in postcolonial India with reference to the questions of inequality\, environment\, protest movements and spatial jus tice. DTEND:20240326T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T222132Z DTSTART:20240326T193000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Caste Sensorium of Campuses: Embodied Experiences Searching for Wor ds UID:RFCALITEM639142068925631412 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The South Asia Center at the Moynihan Insti tute in conjunction with the Anthropology Department and SU School of Educ ation presents Carmel Christy from Delhi University. \;

The elite higher educational institutions (HEIs) in India have often turned o ut to be sites of struggle for Dalitbahujan (DB) students rather than fulf illing their egalitarian promise. Since the early 2000s\, the anti-caste\, Ambedkarite student movements have created a sense of resistance against prevalent forms of caste discrimination on campuses. Despite this\, DB stu dents experience implicit and explicit forms of caste discrimination\, oft en leading to a high number of drop-out rates\, indescribable forms of tra uma\, and sometimes even suicides.

Other than overt forms\, caste d iscrimination is also perpetuated through unspoken\, embodied acts which a re harder to articulate. These habituated everyday forms of differentiatio n and discrimination beyond legal parlance make the HEIs dreaded sites whe re\, leave alone thriving\, even surviving becomes tough. This silent and normalized casteist embodiment of the HEIs keep outcasting DB students on campuses. In short\, the HEIs perpetuate a savarna sensorium\, i.e.\, an a esthetics and ethos which negates not just the intellectual pursuits of DB s but also casts their bodies and ‘being’ as unwanted in these spaces. Bas ed on ethnographic accounts of DB women students\, the paper signposts the need to understand embodied\, affective forms of interactions as crucial to unpacking caste on Indian campuses. \;

Carmel Christy K J is an assistant professor of journalism at Kamala Nehru College\, University of Delhi. Cur rently\, she is a postdoctoral research associate at The Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute\, University of Connecticut. She has published on t he intersectionality of caste and gender\, the interrelationship between l and\, caste and gender\; caste discrimination in Indian higher educational institutions as well as on displacement\, religion and urban space-making . She is working on her next monograph about urban space-making in postcol onial India with reference to the questions of inequality\, environment\, protest movements and spatial justice.

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