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Global South Speaker Series: Dr. Shweta Sachdeva Jha | September 23, 2025

  • Writer: ChLA Global Committee
    ChLA Global Committee
  • Aug 18
  • 1 min read

Updated: Aug 28


Flyer for ChLA event with Dr. Shweta Sachdeva Jha on September 23, 2025, discussing "Biksu" and graphic memoirs, featuring a registration QR code.

The ChLA Global Committee invites you to join the upcoming Children's Literature Association's Global South Speakers Series!

Written in Hindi spoken in the Chhota Nagpur region, Varun Grover and Raj Kumari’s graphic memoir Biksu, based on a 35-page letter from Kumari’s cousin, uses non-sequential comic panels, irregular speech bubbles, and symbols and motifs from Madhubani painting. Dr. Shweta Sachdeva Jha’s analysis demonstrates how the memoir resists a linear reading of Biksu’s past and coaxes us to unpeel the complex temporal layers of his recollections.


Speaker:

Dr. Shweta Sachdeva Jha

Department of English

Miranda House

University of Delhi

Please join us on Tuesday, September 23, 2025

7:30-8:30 PM [Delhi]

3:00-4:00 PM [London]

4:00-5:00 PM [Berlin]

7:00-8:00 AM [Seattle]

9:00-10:00 AM [Chicago]

10:00-11:00 AM [Eastern USA]

Register in advance here: https://bit.ly/4mRdAUe

Co-sponsored by ChLA Global Committee and The Georgiou Library and Resource Center for Children and Literature at NYU


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