In zwei besonderen fremdsprachigen Vorträgen – einer auf Englisch, einer auf Italienisch – öffnen wir Fenster zu unterschiedlichen kulturellen Räumen, verbunden durch gemeinsame Themen: weibliche Identität, gesellschaftlicher Widerstand, Sprache als Ausdrucksmittel und Brücke zwischen Welten.

“Tales of Women’s Resistance in Contemporary India” explores how Indian women navigate and confront the powerful structures of caste, class, patriarchy, and colonial legacy that shape their lives. Across India, women’s movements are reclaiming public spaces, challenging deeply rooted societal norms, and resisting oppression in both domestic and institutional realms. This talk delves into the everyday struggles, reflections, and aspirations of Indian women as they push boundaries and create lasting change in their communities and beyond.

Khushboo Jain is an activist scholar engaged in agency-based political struggle. Her ethnographic study of home-making practices on the streets of Delhi critiques normative ideas of home, family, and the public–private divide. Her research spans projects on street and railway children in India, social and geographic marginality in European cities, and the Maoist movement in Nepal with a focus on women, always linking scholarship to ground realities. At the crossroads of feminism, critical theory, and lived experience, her teaching and writing draw directly from research. Currently completing her PhD at Friedrich Alexander Universität (Germany), she has resolutely transformed her findings into curricular content, teaching courses on feminist theories, contemporary Indian society, reimagining the home, child rights and law in India, and research ethics and methodology.

In englischer Sprache. Ausreichend Kenntnisse in der jeweiligen Sprache sind erforderlich.