Light House Books
7.30pm -9pm.
‘Identity as Fiction, Fiction as Herstories’.
Dr Nitasha Kaul is a multidisciplinary academic, novelist, poet, artist, and economist. Over the last two decades, she has worked on themes relating to identity, democracy, political economy, feminist and postcolonial critiques, Kashmir, and Bhutan. She holds a joint doctorate in Economics and Philosophy (2003) from the University of Hull, and is the author of the book ‘Imagining Economics Otherwise: encounters with identity/difference’ (Routledge, 2007). Her novel ‘Residue’ (Rupa/Rainlight, 2014) about Kashmiris and the politics of identity across nation- state borders was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Currently an Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster in London, she has previously been an Associate Professor in Creative Writing in Bhutan and an Assistant Professor in Economics at the Bristol Business School. She writes and speaks within and outside academia, see CV at www.nitashakaul.com and twitter @NitashaKaul