October 2004

Saturday, October 2

National Gandhi Day of Service.

Sign-up to perform community service in the New Haven area on Gandhi's birthday.

For information, contact sabrina.khan@yale.edu.

Sponsored by the South Asian Society.

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Thursday, October 7

Anne Rademacher
Doctoral candidate, Department of Anthropology
Yale University

"The Rural in the Urban: Human Settlements, River Territories, and a Contingent State in Kathmandu"

11:45am-1:00pm, 158 Whitney Avenue, Room 1
lunch provided

For information, contact Ajay Gandhi, Devika Bordia or Durba Chattaraj.

Sponsored by the South Asia Graduate Student Seminar Series, with support from the Council on South Asian Studies, Yale Graduate School, and the Graduate and Professional Student Senate.

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Monday, October 11

Hon. Justice B. N. Kirpal
Former Chief Justice of India and Chairman, National Forest Commission

"Judicial Environmental Activism: Lessons from India"

A Question-Answer session and a reception will follow the lecture.

4:00pm-6:00pm
205 Prospect Street, Bowers Auditorium

For information, contact eugenie.gentry@yale.edu.

Sponsored by the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

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Thursday, October 21

Kenneth MacDonald
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and International Development Studies Program
University of Toronto

"Memories of Tibet: Transnationalism, Transculturation and the Production of Collective Cultural Identity in Northern Pakistan"

11:45am-1:00pm, 158 Whitney Avenue, Room 1
lunch provided

For information, contact Ajay Gandhi, Devika Bordia or Durba Chattaraj.

Sponsored by the South Asia Graduate Student Seminar Series, with support from the Council on South Asian Studies, Yale Graduate School, and the Graduate and Professional Student Senate.

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Thursday, October 28

Shahla Haeri
Director, Women’s Studies Program, and Professor, Department of Anthropology
Boston University

"Against the Grain: Making the Lives of Professional Pakistani Women Visible"

11:45am-1:00pm, 158 Whitney Avenue, Room 1
lunch provided

For information, contact Ajay Gandhi, Devika Bordia or Durba Chattaraj.

Sponsored by the South Asia Graduate Student Seminar Series, with support from the Council on South Asian Studies, Yale Graduate School, and the Graduate and Professional Student Senate.

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November 2004

Sunday & Monday
November 7 & 8

Final Solution
A Study of the Politics of Hate: Gujarat, India 2002-2003

A film by Rakesh Sharma

7:30pm, November 7
LC 101

7:30pm, November 8
LC 102

For more information, contact theodore.kaye@yale.edu

Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the South Asian Society, the Muslim Students Association, the Asian American Students' Association, Yale Film Department, Jonathan Edwards College, and Davenport College.

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Thursday, November 11

Rashmi Sadana
Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Anthropology
Columbia University

"A Suitable Text for a Vegetarian Audience: Questions of Caste, Ethics and Authenticity"

11:45am-1:00pm, 158 Whitney Avenue, Room 1
lunch provided

For information, contact Ajay Gandhi, Devika Bordia or Durba Chattaraj.

Sponsored by the South Asia Graduate Student Seminar Series, with support from the Council on South Asian Studies, Yale Graduate School, and the Graduate and Professional Student Senate.

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November 18-25 (date tba)

Amar Kanwar
Filmaker
New Delhi, India

"A Season Outside" Screening and discussion

7:00pm-9:00pm, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Auditorium

For information, contact Ajay Gandhi, Devika Bordia or Durba Chattaraj.

Sponsored by the South Asia Graduate Student Seminar Series, with support from the Council on South Asian Studies, Yale Graduate School, and the Graduate and Professional Student Senate.

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