Illinois Global Institute

Welcome to the calendar of the Illinois Global Institute. We are home to 10 longstanding international area studies centers and thematic programs. Bringing the units together as part of the IGI will improve organizational support, raise visibility, and foster additional cross-campus collaboration on essential international programs

Map of South Asia, blue on orange background

<SAS Friday Talks @ 11> Sonal Mithal, Lucknow Queerscapes: Architecture and the Colonial Archive

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
South Asian Studies @ CSAMES
Virtual
Join online
Date
Jan 31, 2025   11:00 am - 12:00 pm  
Registration
REGISTRATION LINK
Contact
Ragini Chakraborty
E-Mail
raginic2@illinois.edu
Views
34
Originating Calendar
South Asia Friday Talks

Lucknow Queerscapes: Architecture and the Colonial Archive

In the talk, she discusses her recent book, Lucknow Queerscapes. The talk walks the audience through the book's method of using queer strategies to read archival evidence against the grain and rewrite erased, overlooked, and suppressed histories. It simultaneously extracts parameters from queer studies and redefines them to illustrate ways in which queer architecture can be characterized. 



link for robots only