Luzia Savary

RESEARCH PROJECT

Evolution, Racial Theories and Eugenics in the Hindi and Urdu Public Spheres in Colonial India (c. 1860-1940)

CURRICULUM VITAE

Seit 09/2010    Doktorandin an der ETH Zurich, Mitarbeiterin am SNF-Projekt 'Imitation - Assimilation - Transformation'
09/2009     M.A. in Geschichte Südasiens, Universität Heidelberg
11/2006     B. A. in Religionswissenschaften, Università di Bologna

PUBLIKATIONEN

• “Muslim Reformist Discourse on Women in Late 19th- Century India: Discussions on pardah in the Hyderabadi Urdu Magazine for Women Mu‘allim-i nisvān” in Cevenini & D’Onofrio (eds.) ‘Uyun al-Akhbar 4. Studi sul mondo islamico, Bologna: Il Ponte, 2010. (reprinted in Urdu translation in Al-Ayyam. Educational and Research Journal 5, Karachi, January-June, 2012).

VORTRÄGE

• 2 April 2012: “The Indian Elites' Eugenic Concerns: "Struggle for Existence" and "Racial Improvement" in the Vernacular Printing Press in Colonial India” (ca. 1900-1940), Internationale Konferenz “Fighting Drink, Drugs, and Venereal Diseases: Global Anti-Vice Activism, ca. 1870-1940”, Monte Verità, ETH Zürich
• 17. März 2012: “From Evolution to Race? The Colonized Elites’ Reinventions of Biological Race in the Hindi and Urdu Press (ca. 1880-1940)”. Annual Conference Association for Asian Studies (AAS) – Sheraton Hotel Conference Center, Toronto, 15.-18. März 2012.
• 15. Juli 2010: “Muslim Reformist Discourse on Women in Late 19th-Century India: Discussions on pardah in the Hyderabadi Urdu Magazine for Women Mu‘allim- i nisvān, Workshop “Identifying New Themes in South Asian History” – Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 15.-17. Juli 2010.