<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear friends</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Please come to this presentation by Dr Shalmalee Palekar from UNSW. </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I would also be grateful if you could pass it along through your networks</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Devleena</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Day Friday</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date 12 October</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Time 6 pm</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Venue UTS Bldg3, rm210, enter via 755 Harris St</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Soma-Rasa:</B> In this theory / fiction / performance, Soma-Rasa, I will examine my "raced," lesbian, academic, creative body as a site of both "otherness" and empowerment. By inhabiting the subject position(s) of a diasporic, Indian, lesbian academic in Australia, do I necessarily operate from multiple liminalities? In what ways do I negotiate with whiteness? Attempting a fluid movement between "authenticity" and dreams, between split selves and fragmented subjectivities, between playfulness and polemic, my writing / performance will interrogate boundaries of the gendered body, sexuality, "race," and professionalism. I will explore what representations make it possible for the voices of "Indian women" to not be completely anchored to a space that is dictated only by white Western and Indian dominant discourses. Ultimately, I aim to develop a longer multimedia performance piece that examines the embodied production of knowledge and writes sexuality as a participation in multicultural community networks.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Bio:</B> Shalmalee Palekar is currently a lecturer in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts at UNSW. She has previously taught at Sophia College, University of Mumbai, India, SNDT Women's University, Mumbai, and Macquarie University. Shalmalee has published journal articles and book chapters in the areas of postcolonial, queer and gender studies. In 2005, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), University of Wollongong, where her research focused on representations of women's sexualities in Indian fiction and cinema. Shalmalee is also an active translator of Marathi poetry into English, and writes, acts, and performs professionally with three women and a cello, collectively called "Funkier Than Alice".</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">(Dr) Devleena Ghosh</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Senior Lecturer, Social Inquiry Program</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">(University Research Centre for Communication and Culture)</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Bon Marche (Bldg 3), room 550 (enter via Harris St)</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px; font-family: Times New Roman; "><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">University of Technology, Sydney</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Australia</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px; font-family: Times New Roman; "><BR style="font-family: Times New Roman; "></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Postal address: PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Phone and Voice Mail: +61-2-95141963</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">Fax: +61-2-95142778</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; ">www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au</SPAN></FONT></P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>