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Sabnam Gafoor endowment lecture in Kochi on October 25

Organised jointly by the Sabnam Gafoor Foundation and the School of Gender Studies, Mahatma Gandhi University, the lecture will examine how women’s life experiences and social engagements are documented in history through autobiographies, memoirs, and letters.

The Sabnam Gafoor endowment lecture, exploring women’s writing, selfhood, and place in history in 20th-century Keralam, will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Sunday (October 25) at the Kerala History Museum, Pathadippalam, Edappally.

G. Arunima of the Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, will deliver the lecture titled ‘Life, Writing and Women’s Subjectivities in 20th-Century Kerala’, according to a communication.

Organised jointly by the Sabnam Gafoor Foundation and the School of Gender Studies, Mahatma Gandhi University, the lecture will examine how women’s life experiences and social engagements are documented in history through autobiographies, memoirs, and letters. It will also explore how social factors such as caste, religion, and region have shaped women’s experiences and sense of identity, it said.

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