The Simone de Beauvoir Institute Seminar Series 2025-2026 day 1

This panel brings together three scholars examining urgent questions of political violence, diaspora activism, and ethical research practice. From Hindu nationalism's impact on minoritized communities to Uyghur women's resistance against genocide, and queer methodologies that embrace failure as generative, these presentations challenge conventional approaches to scholarship and solidarity.

Presentations:

Dolores Chew | Hindutva, Hinduphobia and Intersectional Inequality
This presentation examines the rise of Hindutva ideology and its implications for intersectional inequality. Chew explores how accusations of Hinduphobia are weaponized against scholars and activists, while analyzing the patriarchal, casteist, and anti-minority dimensions of Hindu ethnonationalism in India and its diaspora.

Dil Maihemuti Dilimulati | Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora: Restorying a Genocide
Drawing on oral histories of ten Uyghur women activists, this presentation explores their journeys from East Turkestan/Xinjiang to political engagement in the diaspora. Through narrative analysis, Dilimulati examines how these women navigate competing realities and actively work to document and resist ongoing genocide while forging new forms of Uyghur-Muslim feminism.

Casey Burkholder | Centering Failure in Participatory Visual Research Facilitation: Exploring Romances, Ruptures and Other Ethical Messes
Reflecting on the Pride/Swell+ project, Burkholder proposes "queer joy-as-failure" as a methodological framework for participatory visual research. This presentation explores how embracing messiness, creative autonomy, and DIY ethics can generate solidarity, repair, and new possibilities for ethical collaboration.

Discussant: Gada Mahrouse

Free and all are welcome to attend.

The event is at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute in the room ER-672 (2155 Guy St 6th floor, Montreal, Quebec H3H 2L9).