The TCU Women’s Studies Program will host its Green Honors Chair, Inderpal Grewal, at a lecture at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17 in the BLUU Auditorium. Her topic is “Toward a Gendered, Transnational Critique of Perpetual War.”

Dr. Grewal is currently Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Most recently she has taught at University of California, Irvine, where she was director of Women’s Studies and of the Ph.D. Program in Culture and Theory.

Her research interests include transnational feminist theory; gender and globalization; human rights; NGO’s and theories of civil society; theories of travel and mobility; South Asian cultural studies; and postcolonial feminism. She is the author of Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Cultures of Travel (Duke University Press, 1996) and Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms (Duke University Press, 2005), and (with Caren Kaplan) has written and edited Gender in a Transnational World: Introduction to Women’s Studies (Mc-Graw Hill 2001, 2005) and Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational: Feminist Practices (University of Minnesota Press, 1994).

She is now working on a book-length project on the relation between feminist practices and security discourses. She is also co-editing (with Victoria Bernal, UC Irvine, Anthropology) an edited collection titled The NGO Boom: Critical Feminist. Practices.