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Xavier’s Centre for Gender Studies
Vision
To promote gender parity and intends to poise itself as an academic interface
for research, training and practice through the prism of gender.
Mission
- To create committed communities that address the challenges faced in the areas
of gender, sexuality, diversity and equity.
- To focus on the formulation of policies aimed at establishing a just and
secular society in India.
- To develop gender studies as a discipline with a core area of theory in an
inter-disciplinary framework, specially focusing on women, dalit, tribal and
minority religious communities.
- To bring gender from the margins to the core issues along with constant
transformation and expansion growing with the active involvement of faculty,
staff, and students who are committed to the shaping of thought in gender and
sexuality.
The Proposed Approach
The primary role of the Centre can be defined as knowledge assimilation and
transmission through teaching, research and documentation.
- Teaching and Training
• Designing modules assigning appropriate credits.
• Introducing a Certificate Course of 6 weeks duration.
• Incorporating field practice component.
• Developing reading materials.
• Introducing gender studies as an optional paper for the International.
Exchange programme students.
- Research
- Hosting both minor and major research projects from various
funding agencies.
- Organizing seminars, workshops and colloquia for better
understanding and sharing various conceptual issues in gender
studies.
- Organizing periodic orientation programmes to develop courses,
research and related activities.
- Documentation and Publication
- Reports of conferences, seminars and workshops.
- Thematic compilation of completed research projects hosted
by Centre and publication of working papers.
- Publication of an annual journal on gender studies.
- Publication of a bi-annual magazine on the activities of the
Centre.
Committee Members:
Prof. Saswati Chaudhuri (Convenor)
Prof. Asish Mitra
Prof. Jhumpa Mukherjee
Prof. Charlotte Simpson Veigas
Prof. Rilina Basu
Prof. Samrat Roy
Prof. Zayed Al Baset
Prof. Soma Nath
Ms. Cheryl Francis
Prof. Sumona Guha
Prof. Koushik Chatterjee
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