CSWS Annual Review

A clip of the poster for Arlene Stein's talk "The Right's Gender Wars and the Assault on Democracy"

Reflections on Gender, Sexuality, and Power

CSWS sponsored three talks during winter and spring 2023. We invited five of our graduate student affiliates below to share some thoughts on the talks’ themes.

February 16: “Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America”

March 13: “The Right’s Gender Wars and the Assault on Democracy”

April 21: “Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics”

Daizi Hazarika, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology

The Rise of Witch-Hunting & Witch-Killing in Assam, India

by Daizi Hazarika, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology During the winter of 2023, with the help of a CSWS graduate student research award, I had an opportunity to visit Assam, India, for two months to conduct dissertation research on witch-hunting and witch-killing. During my field trip to Assam, I conducted research in Guwahati (the capital city of Assam) and a village called Dabli, among the Rabha community (a tribal community of Assam) in the Goalpara subdivision of this region. In Guwahati, I interacted with several government officials regarding their perceptions of the current-day witch-hunting in Assam and the steps taken by the Assamese government to combat this practice.