Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture: Meera Jatav
Meera Jatav, a journalist based in Uttar Pradesh in India comes to London and the CIJ to deliver the annual Gavin MacFadyen memorial lecture. The co-founder of the award-winning, grassroots feminist media organisation Khabar Lahariya, Jatav has won a reputation for her courageous investigations into gender-based violence and caste in India.
Translating from Hindi will be Meera’s colleague Priyanka Kotamraju, from the University of Cambridge.
This is the Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture 2022.
Meera Jatav
Meera Jatav is a feminist-journalist based in Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh, India. She is the co-founder of the award-winning, grassroots feminist media organisation Khabar Lahariya and served as its Chief Editor from 2005 to 2019.
Priyanka Kotamraju
Priyanka Kotamraju is pursuing a doctorate degree at the Department of Sociology in the University of Cambridge on the Gates Cambridge international scholarship. She is the co-author of The Murderer, the Monarch and the Fakir - a new investigation into Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination (October 2021, HarperCollins India).
- 30 June 2022 13.30–14.30
Location: Room LG02 - PSH Building - Goldsmiths, University of London