Students of MA Economics with Prof. Maxine Berntsen at VI Dr. Neera Desai Memorial Lecture 24-9-2015

Research Centre for Women’s Studies (RCWS) instituted of Dr. Neera Desai Memorial Lecture in memory of its founding Director and received generous donations for corpus funds from Neeraben’s friends, fellow travelers in social movements, colleagues and well-wishers in women’s studies and women’s movements.
From the very beginning Department of Economics, Gujarat Research Society and Advocate Mihir Desai have collaborated in making this lecture series a grand success by identifying guest speakers, mobilizing friends and fellow travelers in women’s studies and women’s movement, colleagues and scholars and also in terms of cost sharing. Basic philosophy of women’s studies in India as articulated by Dr. Neera Desai revolved around concepts such as “Theory-as-Practice”, “Trans-disciplinarily”, Feminist critiques of “objectivity,” and “Philosophies of power-knowledge”, and plural perspectives in knowledge production.