CRIA invites you to the next session of the Doctoral Seminar Series of the South Asia Study Circle (CEAS), which will take place on 20 March 2026, at 14:30, at Iscte. The session will feature a presentation by Dalia N., entitled:
“Searching for the Kārttikai Pū: Mapping Post-Conflict Accountability.”
Dalia N. is an autistic first-generation graduate with Indian-Tamil and Malayali roots from the southernmost Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Dalia uses they/them pronouns. They are a doctoral scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, in the discipline of Humanities and Social Sciences, under the supervision of Dr Angus McBlane and Dr Rosa Maria Perez.
Their doctoral research proposes a relationally situated cartography of response-ability as a mutual practice of witnessing the suffering of Eelam Tamils. The project examines the cultural, political, historical, and epistemological conditions that marginalise this community, weaving conceptual models from phenomenology with insights from patchwork ethnography in order to reflect on witnessing, responsibility, and knowledge production in the context of Sri Lanka’s genocidal civil war and the forms of Tamil solidarity that have emerged since.
The session will also be streamed via Teams:
Teams ID: 351 714 583 249 06
Access code: 4bS7b5Vb
This seminar series offers PhD students a space to meet and share their work—such as work-in-progress articles, thesis chapters, or projects—throughout the academic year. Each presenter should send their materials at least one week in advance in order to allow time for feedback from a designated discussant.
Each session will last 90 minutes: 40 minutes for the presentation; 10 minutes for the discussant’s comments; the remaining time will be open for discussion.
The seminar will be held in a hybrid format, but we strongly encourage those based in Lisbon to attend in person in order to foster engagement and support the success of the series.
The seminar may be conducted in English (preferably, to allow colleagues outside Portugal to participate) or in Portuguese.
Organised by Daniela Bevilacqua, Giacomo Mantovan and Vera Lazzaretti
