UNC Asheville will host an international studies speaker forum with scholars Sonia Kapur and Augustina Adusah-Karikari at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30 in UNC Asheville’s Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum. The event is free and open to the public.
Kapur will present her research on the experiences of Asian Indian marriage migrants, the lack of policies to meet their needs, including those seeking to leave abusive relationships. Kapur is assistant professor of international studies at UNC Asheville, and has served in the nonprofit sector working on issues of gender and child rights in India and across South Asia. She holds a doctorate in public policy from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and a doctorate in sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.
Adusah-Karikari will discuss the recent development of the oil and gas industry in Ghana, and its effect on women in oil-producing communities. The lecture will examine women’s diverse situations in these communities, and how the oil industry may produce gender imbalances within them. Adusah-Karikari is a lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), and is on leave while serving as a Newton International Fellow in the Department of Africana Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham, U.K. She holds a doctorate in philosophy from Ohio University.
The speaker forum is cosponsored by UNC Asheville’s International Studies Program and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. For more information, contact Agya Boakye-Boaten, assistant professor and chair of Africana Studies, at [email protected] or 828.350.4564.