Feminist Futures Conference and Exhibition in India Explores Marginality in Academia
In January 2026, leading feminist academics gathered in India to explore challenges shaping institutional life, alongside an exhibition highlighting marginalised voices in the academy.
In January 2026, the conference Feminist Futures, Fractured Presents: Cultures, Belongings, and the Institutional Everyday brought together leading feminist academics from across India to explore ongoing challenges shaping institutional life.
Alongside the conference, the exhibition Counter-Narratives of Authority in Transition: Marginality in the Indian Academy was co-curated by Dina Zoe Belluigi (CITE) and Dr Nandita Dhawan (Jadavpur University’s School of Women’s Studies). The exhibition explored the experiences of socially marginalised scholars within the Indian academy.
The exhibition developed from a with Ulrike Vieten and Johny Marjit (CITE), and Asha Achuthan (Tata Institute of Social Sciences). The project focuses on critical scholars who entered employment in Indian universities from the early 1960s to the 2020s.
Through intergenerational interpretation and creative works, the exhibition presents the life histories of 46 academic citizens. These narratives highlight how gender marginality intersects with religion, caste, disability, sexual orientation, class and language within academic life.
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