Sarkar Discusses Gender in Nuclear Politics in Thinktank Podcast
On November 23, 2020, Jayita Sarkar, Assistant Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was a featured guest on the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies‘ “Parallax” video podcast series. The series is part of IPCS’ new initiative to bridge the gap between academia and policy in South Asia and the world.
During the episode, titled “Nuclear Women,” Sarkar discussed the role of gender in teaching and studying nuclear politics in today’s world. The episode also featured Ruhee Neog, director of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, and Tanvi Kulkarni, assistant professor at Pune University.
The podcast includes a discussion of Sarkar’s courses, IR315 (International Nuclear Politics) and IR522 (Politics of Nuclear Weapons), and the Nuclear Sites Project of the Pardee School’s Global Decolonization Initiative, which builds on the aforementioned courses. It also includes a list of scholarly references on gender in nuclear politics that were mentioned in the podcast.
The full podcast can be viewed below.
Jayita Sarkar is Assistant Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where she is also the founding director of the Global Decolonization Initiative. She teaches diplomatic and political history at graduate and undergraduate levels. Professor Sarkar’s areas of research expertise are 20th century South Asia, history of U.S. foreign relations, politics of nuclear technologies, and connected partitions. Her book, Ploughshares & Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War, (Forthcoming, Cornell University Press, 2022), examines the first forty years of India’s nuclear program through the prisms of geopolitics and technopolitics. Read more about Professor Sarkar on her faculty profile.