[SydPhil] Reading Periyar Now

[Supriya Subramani]

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Gentle reminder to join this online reading session and conversation with Karthick Ram Manoharan on anti-caste philosophy and self-respect movement of Periyar.


Title: Reading Periyar Now
Abstract: This talk will discuss the Introduction and the chapter "Periyar's Anti-Aryanism" from The Cambridge Companion to Periyar. The discussion will revolve around Periyar's Self-Respect thought and his anti-caste praxis.

Bio: Karthick Ram Manoharan is Smuts Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is faculty of social sciences at National Law School of India University. He is the author of Periyar: A Study in Political Atheism (2022) and Frantz Fanon: Identity and Resistance (2019), and the co-editor of the volumes The Cambridge Companion to Periyar (2025) and Rethinking Social Justice (2020).

May 1st, 6 to 7.30PM Sydney Time\ IST 1.30 to 3.00PM

Registration link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/register/dMz7SuSQSLW1WaX514yJWA
If you don’t have access to the chapters, please feel free to reach out to Supriya Subramani at Supriya.subramani at sydney.edu.au

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