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Refusals, radical vulnerability, and hungry translations – a conversation with Richa Nagar
Full text linkRicha Nagar is Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and holds the title of Professor of the College at the University of Minnesota. Her multilingual and multi-genre work blends scholarship, creative writing, theatre, and activism to build alliances with people’s struggles and to engage questions of ethics, responsibility, and justice. We contacted Richa in December 2021 with a request to contribute to our special issue. Richa kindly agreed to engage in a written conversation on questions of refusal as they emerge in her intellectual and political journey and in her trilogy, Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India (2006), Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms Across Scholarship and Activism (2014), and Hungry Translations: Relearning the World Through Radical Vulnerability (2019). We present that conversation in this article
Playing With Silence: Fawad Khan Speaks with Richa Nagar and Abdul Aijaz
No full textEds. Richa Nagar, Abdul Aijaz, and Nithya Rajan, Special Volume on “Ecologies of Violence and Haunting: Listening to to Chup
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Dr. Richa Modi - Patient Experiences
No full textDr. Richa Modi talks about some interesting patient experiences.Asian StudiesHindi Urdu FlagshipSouth Asia Institut
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Dr. Richa Modi - Medical Education
Full text linkDr. Richa Modi talks about her education in the field of medicine.Asian StudiesHindi Urdu FlagshipSouth Asia Institut
Jewish women's writing as a new category of affect
No full textThe chapter, "Jewish women's writing as a new category of affect" was written by Richa Dwor (Douglas College Faculty). Bringing together scholars from literary, historical, and religious studies,Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion interrogates the seemingly obvious category of 'religion.' This collection argues that any application of religion engages in complex and relatively modern historical processes. In considering the various ways that nineteenth-century religion was constructed, commodified, and practiced, contributors to this volume 'speak' to each other, finding interdisciplinary links and resonances across a range of texts and contexts. The participle in its title - Constructing - acknowledges that any articulation of nineteenth-century religion is never just a work of the past: scholars also actively construct religion as their disciplinary assumptions (and indeed personal and lived investments) shape their research and findings. Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion newly analyzes the diverse ways in which religion was debated and deployed in a wide range of nineteenth-century texts and contexts. While focusing primarily on nineteenth-century Britain, the collection also contributes to the increasingly transnational and transcultural outlook of postsecular studies, drawing connections between Britain and the United States, continental Europe, and colonial India. Part of the "Literature, religion, and post secular studies" series. --From publisher description.Published
Dwor, Richa
No full textcurrentBA Hons (British Columbia)
MA (University of Nottingham)
PhD (University of Nottingham)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK)
Douglas College Faculty member since 2015
I am a Victorianist with a specialization in Anglo-Jewish literature and culture. In my work on Jewish women's writing, I have argued that the authors Grace Aguilar (1816-1847) and Amy Levy (1861-1889) drew on Jewish approaches to reading with feeling in their own novels, poetry, and criticism. Aspects of this research have appeared in the journals Literature and Theology, Partial Answers, English Literature in Transition, and Leeds Working Papers in Victorian Studies, as well as two entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (on Charlotte Montefiore and Judith Montefiore). I have written a book, Jewish Feeling: Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women's Writing (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), which reads Aguilar and Levy alongside the canonical Victorian authors George Eliot and Henry James. My current research focuses on transatlantic Jewish networks facilitated by private correspondence, trade, and the periodical press
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Dr. Richa Modi - Health Education and Advocacy
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Dr. Richa Modi - Rural Health Education Needs
Full text linkDr. Richa Modi talks about the need for health awareness and government generated services in rural areas.Asian StudiesHindi Urdu FlagshipSouth Asia Institut
On the Runtime of Local Mutual Exclusion for Anonymous Dynamic Networks
Full text linkAlgorithms for mutual exclusion aim to isolate potentially concurrent accesses to the same shared resources. Motivated by distributed computing research on programmable matter and population protocols where interactions among entities are often assumed to be isolated, Daymude, Richa, and Scheideler (SAND`22) introduced a variant of the local mutual exclusion problem that applies to arbitrary dynamic networks: each node, on issuing a lock request, must acquire exclusive locks on itself and all its persistent neighbors, i.e., the neighbors that remain connected to it over the duration of the lock request. Assuming adversarial edge dynamics, semi-synchronous or asynchronous concurrency, and anonymous nodes communicating via message passing, their randomized algorithm achieves mutual exclusion (non-intersecting lock sets) and lockout freedom (eventual success with probability 1). However, they did not analyze their algorithm’s runtime. In this paper, we prove that any node will successfully lock itself and its persistent neighbors within (nΔ³) open rounds of its lock request in expectation, where n is the number of nodes in the dynamic network, Δ is the maximum degree of the dynamic network, rounds are normalized to the execution time of the "slowest" node, and "closed" rounds when some persistent neighbors are already locked by another node are ignored (i.e., only "open" rounds are considered)
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