Date: Tuesday 2 December 2025
Time: 15.15 – 16.30 (Swedish time)
Location: Zoom / room Ninox, Gula villan
A seminar in the Decolonial Feminisms Seminar Series at Stockholm University.
Speaker: Srila Roy, Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Srila Roy is a leading voice in global feminist scholarship. Her research focuses on transnational, decolonial, and feminist theory, with particular attention to gender, sexuality, and politics in South Asia and the Global South. She is the author of Dissonant Intimacies (forthcoming), Remembering Revolution, and Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India (Duke University Press, 2022), and co-editor of Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa (Manchester University Press, 2022).
In this talk, Professor Roy develops an approach to decolonising higher education from a Global South feminist perspective. Situating her ideas within current calls to decolonise, she traces key social fault lines—around race, caste, and nationalism—that have shaped institutional dynamics in higher education in India and South Africa. Just as the South African student movements prefigured calls to decolonise the university, a “decolonial Hindutva” acts as a cautionary tale for all committed to social justice. Frustrations around the decolonial turn do not lead to abandoning the concept; rather, they inspire a renewed curiosity and commitment to engaging the Global South in the work of decolonisation.