@urvikhaitan

Economics, History, and Politics Prize Fellow @Harvard @HistoryEcon | PhD @OxfordESH @OxfordHistory | women and work in the Indian economy | alum @StStephensClg

 Cambridge, MA/Calcutta, India
histecon.fas.harvard.edu/ehppf/khaitan.html
Joined September 2019
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I'm so pleased my first academic publication -- on colonial India's women coal miners who proved pivotal to the Allied war effort -- is in this special edition of War & Society on #hiddenWW2 edited by @teachlearnwar and @daniel_todman. Open access! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Women beneath the Surface: Coal and the Colonial State in India during the Second World War

In British India in 1943, a rapidly escalating Allied coal crisis resulted in the lifting of a six-year-old ban on women’s employment underground. Over 70,000 low-caste and adivasi (indigenous) wom...

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Taking a unified approach to the interconnected yet distinct issues of gender disparity and food access, Urvi Khaitan uncovers the fascinating layers that imbued governance and nutritional education in the 1940s, for Indian women and society at large. studycirclelokayata.blog/202…
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I write on the crumbling materiality of #WW2 runways built by tens of thousands of women impoverished by the #BengalFamine. Thanks @HistoryEcon for the opportunity to reflect.
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Off to a brilliant start at today’s “Women & War” conference at @LibAllSouls All Souls College, University of Oxford. The conference is organized by researchers from @KingsCollegeLon and @UniofOxford - I look forward to talking about women & the revolutionary wars in DK-NO later
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Lots of important themes discussed today at the Women & War Workshop — across geographies, archives, and time
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Another brilliant paper in this panel - this one by @urvikhaitan : “My Body costs 500 Rupees”, on the economies of sex work in India during the Bengal famine - uncovering the women from US Army’s concern for venereal disease - and, importantly, women’s own accounts of assault
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WOMEN & WAR: a conference co-organised with @UniofOxford. The second panel on 22 March with feature @gupta_diya, Alex Wilson, and @urvikhaitan discussing Indian women in the Second World War. Registration is FREE & open to all until 20 March: asc.ox.ac.uk/event/women-war
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Absolutely thrilled to have been a part of this! @OxfordUCU passed an anti-caste resolution and will recognize caste as a protected category! I was so nervous but UCU members, Oxford staff and Professors at the Roundtable were so supportive & understanding ! Congrats @oxsaaf 👏
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The Kellogg College alumni group from india. Lovely reunion in the beautiful city of Kolkata. Healthcare, Banking, Computer Science, Business… the diversity of the college is endless in all terms Kellogg Alumni Meet - ‘23, Kolkata
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10 Nov 23 Was intellectually stimulating to respond to @surajyengde keynote speaker at @britsoci Presidential event chaired by Prof Gurminder Kaur Bhambra With @RajrahSimple @urvikhaitan John Holmwood @faisaldevji Kumud Ranjan #Caste #Race #Gender #Inequalities @LSEInequalities
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Urvi Khaitan retweeted
surajyengde@surajyengde9 Nov 2023
in the second session, i will respond to the three stimulating papers by young scholar colleagues @RajrahSimple @urvikhaitan kumud ranjan. please note the event is fully booked.
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Tomorrow (25 Oct) afternoon, our third graduate workshop of the year invites Urvi Khaitan @urvikhaitan from the University of Oxford to share her paper "A Tepid Cup of Tea: Women and the Family in Indian Plantations". Hope you’re all as excited as we are! Join us at 4 pm, G.10!
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We're thrilled to finally release our term card and share the exciting group of speakers who will be sharing their work with us this term!
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We are excited to share with you our workshop programme for this term! We are at Room G.10, Doorway 4, The Old Medical School, on Wednesdays at 4pm. Anyone interested is welcome to attend! 🎉
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Black Women at Oxford: Exhibition Launch @urvikhaitan Monday 2 October at The Hub, Kellogg College. #BlackHistoryMonth kellogg.ox.ac.uk/events/blac…
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Extremely excited about the wonderful workshop tomorrow in the @The_RHS Transactions series I have co-organised with my colleague @BPriyanka_KCL, with @AnnuJal @emma_alexandern @shailajafennell @sujatroghosh @urvikhaitan @Sourit_Bhatt and others- check out the fab programme!
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It was an absolute delight being at @OsloMet for the FRESH Workshop on Work and Wellbeing in History — thank you to the organisers + speakers for great papers and excellent conversations in a warm and supportive environment #oslowork
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Conference update: This year's theme is 'Women and Migration' and we are delighted to have a vast array of papers from around the globe reflecting on gendered experiences of migration historically Save the date: 1 & 2 Sept, via Zoom Programme coming soon! womenshistorynetwork.org/wom…

Women’s History Network Annual Conference: ‘Women and Migration’, 1 and 2 September 2023

image via State Library of New South Wales The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce that the final programme for our annual conference, Women and Migration, is now live. Click this link…

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Applications are now invited for 4 @RoyalHistSoc PhD Fellowships for #History students, held in association with @ihr_history. For more info: royalhistsoc.org/application… Closing date: 31 May #twitterstorians #phdfunding
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Yesterday I presented some of my thesis research at #EHS2023 – here is a *very* brief overview of some of the things I said:
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TGHS's annual graduate conference has a call for papers! If you work on the history of diasporas, identity and belonging we'd love to hear from you. More information about the conference and details of how to submit can be found on our website. oxfordtghs.com/conference
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