We are delighted to be hosting our first event of 2021, starting with a roundtable event on the topic of 'Gender and India's State Elections 2021' - taking place on Thursday 18 February from 1-2.30pm!
Chaired by UoNARI Deputy Director and Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham's School of Politics and IR, Carole Spary, this will invite the following guests:
- Gilles Verniers (Ashoka University)
- Tara Krishnaswamy (Political Shakti)
This will be taking place on MS Teams - and is free to attend for all those who register using our online Registration Form. Once you have completed the form, you will be provided with a link to join the event.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email Saul Crombie to enquire.
Speaker profiles
Tara Krishnaswamy is the co-ordinator of non-partisan collective Political Shakti which advocates in favour of women’s political representation in India. A software engineer by profession and based in Bengaluru, she has organised numerous campaigns to persuade political parties to nominate more women candidates, and to encourage MPs to advocate for women’s reservation. She has also produced a TED talk and commissioned a survey and a short film to understand public attitudes toward and raise awareness about women’s political participation. She has also contributed towards media commentary and analysis of women in politics in India. Outside of Political Shakti, she is the co-founder of Citizens for Bengaluru organising local civic campaigns on citizens’ issues.
Gilles Verniers is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ashoka University, India, and there he is Co-Director of the Trivedi Centre for Political Data. He completed his Ph.D. in Political Science from Sciences Po, Paris, and has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He has co-co-ordinated global collaborative projects on the sociology of elected representatives in India and is the co-editor of a forthcoming book on this topic, with Prof. Christophe Jaffrelot and Dr. Sanjay Kumar, CSDS. He is the co-editor of a special issue of the journal Contemporary South Asia on the topic of India’s 2019 general election, and regularly contributes analysis and commentary in Indian national media on electoral politics, including on women’s representation in Indian politics.
Chair – Carole Spary, is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations and Deputy Director of the Asia Research Institute, at the University of Nottingham. She is the co-author (with Shirin M. Rai) of Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament (OUP) and the author of Gender, Development, and the State in India (Routledge).