International Women’s Day Lunch: A bite-sized dive into feminist research
Lunch talk series by UvA-podia
- Date
- 5 March 2026
- Time
- 12:30 -13:00
- Location
- University Library
- Room
- The Salon (the open space located on floor -1 at the University Library)
About the programme
Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941, Nobel Prize-winning author, poet, educator, and social experimenter to boot, wrote many short stories that feminist and gender studies scholars find compelling. Barnita Bagchi has translated three of his short stories from Bengali for an Oxford World Classics edition of Tagore’s selected short stories forthcoming this spring, edited by Sumit Chakrabarti. In this talk, she will speak on how both masculinity and femininity are anatomized in these short stories, with special attention to a short story titled “The Judge”.
The talk is curated by VOX-POP.
Practical Information
We’ll be providing sandwiches during the session! While the event is free to attend, please book your place so we know how many people to cater for. You can find us in the Salon at the City Centre University Library – this is the open space located on floor -1.
About the speakers
Barnita Bagchi is Chair and Professor of World Literatures in English at the University of Amsterdam. She worked previously at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, India. Educated at Jadavpur, Oxford, Cambridge universities, she is internationally recognized for her academic work on utopia, histories of transnational and women’s education, and women’s writing in western Europe and south Asia. Her articles have appeared in a wide array of journals, and she has published numerous chapters in edited volumes.
Asmae Amaddaou (2001) is a writer, poet and spoken word artist. She graduated from the HKU in 2023, was selected for the Slow Writing Lab of the Nederlands Letterenfonds, and, in collaboration with literary organisation Mooie Woorden, created a trilogy exploring power dynamics. She has previously performed at Nacht van de Poëzie, the Koninklijke Schouwburg, Nationale Opera & Ballet, Lowlands and Paradiso. She also made her television debut with the Vrouwejaars Conference. Her debut poetry collection - an ode to the many forms of love and violence within the diaspora - will be published in spring 2026 by De Bezige Bij.