The Disappearance of Enforced Disappearances in Kashmir: Militarization, Mourning, and the Production of Normalcy
- When
- Wednesday, November 18, 20265:30 PM PSTAdd to calendarGoogle Calendar
- Where
- Encina Commons 123615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305Open in Maps
- Hosted by
- Center for South Asia
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About
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia , the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies , and the Department of Anthropology.
About the speaker Ather Zia, PhD, is a political anthropologist, poet, short fiction writer, and columnist. She is a Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley. She is the author of Resisting Disappearances: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir (University of Washington Press, 2019; Zubaan Books South Asia edition, 2020). She is the co-editor of Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak? (Women Unlimited, 2020), Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), and A Desolation Called Peace (HarperCollins, 2019). Her recent poetry collection In Kashmir: Writing Under Occupation was published by Agitate Collective. She is the founder-editor of Kashmir Lit, and co-founder of the Critical Kashmir Studies Collective. Ather is also a former co-editor of Cultural Anthropology (2022–2025) and Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures.