April
2004
Thursday,
April 1
Ramchandra Guha
Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
Panel
on "How has Our Understanding of Tropical Landscapes,
Ecology and Societies Changed in Twenty Years?"
Reception
to follow
4:00pm-6:00pm,
Betts House, 393 Prospect Street, Third Floor
For
information, contact Amity
Doolittle
Sponsored
by the Tropical Resources Institute, Yale School of Forestry
and Environmental Studies, with support from the Council
on South Asian Studies.
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Friday
and Saturday, April 2 & 3
(2 events)
Rethinking
Images of South Asia
A
conference that seeks to initiate discussion between international
students and South Asian Americans, to rethink misconceptions
and preconceptions of South Asia, and to encourage activism
locally and in South Asia. For this conference, four topics
have been selected: rethinking boundaries, US policy and South
Asia, caste and religion, and women's rights in South Asia.
For
program schedule and information, see www.yale.edu/sacc/
Sponsored
by the South Asian Conference
Council, with support from the Council on South Asian
Studies and numerous other organizations.
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Sahitya
Goshthhi
Hindi Literature in the
Diaspora
Master’s
House, Calhoun College,
and the Whitney Humanities Center
53 Wall Street, Room 208
A
Master's Tea, Readings and Conversations featuring:
Susham
Bedi
Seema Khurana
Dhananjay Kumar
Madhu Maheshwari
Gulshan Madhur
Vishakha Thaker
John Hanson
Schedule
of Events
April
2 Calhoun College Master’s Tea (conducted
in English)
4:30pm
A Panel on Hindi Literature and Diasporic Writing
April
3 Readings and Conversation with Writers. (conducted
in Hindi)
11:00am–4:00pm
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, Room 208
Lunch
and tea provided. Registration required.
For
more information, please contact Rekha
Natrajan or Seema
Khurana.
Sponsored
by the Rustgi Family Fund, the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke
Kempf Fund, and the Center for Language Study, with support
from the South Asian Studies Council, Calhoun College, and
the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. (top)
Monday,
April 5
Gandhi:
The Politics of Modernity
A
conference featuring:
Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of
Chicago
Uday Singh Mehta, Amherst College
Ritu Birla, University of Toronto
Vyjayanthi Rao, New School University
Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University
Ajay Skaria, University of Minnesota
Carol A. Breckenridge, New School
University
Faisal Devji, Yale University
10:00am-4:00pm, Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
For
information, contact Barbara
Papacoda.
Sponsored
by the Rustgi Family Fund, with support from the South Asian
Studies Council and the Yale Center for International and
Area Studies.
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Tuesday,
April 6
(2 events)
Ranabir
Samaddar
Calcutta Research Group
"Rights
and Justice: Limits of Constitutionalism and the Dialogic
Experience"
4:10pm,
Yale Law School, Room 121
For
information, contact schell.law@yale.edu.
Sponsored
by the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human
Rights, Yale Law School.
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Pankaj
Butalia
Filmmaker and activist
Screening
of Karvaan, followed by post-screening discussion.
7:00pm,
Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Auditorium
For
information, contact south.asia@yale.edu.
Sponsored
by the Council on South Asian Studies, South Asian Society,
South Asia Graduate Student Seminar Series, and the Film
Studies Program.
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Friday,
April 9
Dilip Menon
University of Delhi and Program in Agrarian Studies,
Yale University
"Things
Fall Apart: Nostalgia and the Cinematic Rendering of the
Agrarian Landscape in South India"
11:00am,
77 Prospect Street, Seminar Room (ISPS)
Sponsored
by the Yale Program in Agrarian Studies.
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Friday
and Saturday, April 9 & 10
Jhalak
Cultural Show: A Glimpse of South Asia
Tickets
are $5 for students and $10 for non-students in advance; $6
for students and $12 for non-students at the door. Tickets
will be sold in Commons during the week. Proceeds will benefit
SAATH in Gujarat; see www.saath.org/ for
more information about SAATH.
7:00pm,
Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Harkness Auditorium
For
information, contact swati.deshmukh@yale.edu or chatan.kumar@yale.edu;
for tickets, contact darshak.dholakia@yale.edu.
Sponsored
by the South Asian Society.
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Wednesday,
April 14
HOLI:
The Indian Festival of Color
Celebrate
with Indian snacks, music, dancing, Limca, color wars, water
fights, and more.
4:00pm,
Yale Law School, Courtyard
For
information, contact Neema
Trivedi.
Sponsored
by the South Asian Society and the South Asian Graduate Association.
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Thursday,
April 15
(2 events)
Ritty
Lukose
Assistant Professor of Education
University of Pennsylvania
"Empty
Citizenship: Reconfiguring Politics in the Era of Globalization"
11:45am-1:00pm,
51 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 1
lunch provided
For
information, contact Ajay
Gandhi, Arian Schulze,
or Devika Bordia.
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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Indra
Nooyi
President and Chief Financial Officer of PepsiCo Inc.
"Lessons
in Leadership: Part Science, Circumstance, Mysticism and
Dumb Luck"
5:30pm,
dinner; 7:00 keynote address, both at Saybrook College Dining
Hall
For
information and for dinner tickets, contact the Saybrook College
Master's Office (203.432.0540) or the Asian American Cultural
Center (203.432.2931).
Part
of the Asian American Heritage Month, sponsored by the Asian
American Cultural Center.
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Friday,
April 16
Zoe
Sherinian
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Oklahoma
"A
Dalit Family's Dialogue with the History of Tamil Christian
Music, 1850-1994"
12:30pm,
143 Elm Street, Department of Music Seminar Room
For
information, contact Zoe
Sherinian.
Sponsored
by the Department of Music.
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Monday,
April 19
(2 events)
Urvashi
Butalia
Co-founder of Kali for Women and founder-director of Zubaan Books,
both feminist publishing houses based in India
"Negotiating
the Past: Women's Life Stories, Oral Histories, and Family
Memories"
4:00pm,
Gordon Parks Room, 493 College Street
For
information, contact Vron
Ware.
Part
of the Occasional Conversations Series, sponsored the Women's & Gender
Studies Program.
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Indivar
Kamtekar
Jawaharlal Nehru University
"Looking
Beyond Flags: The 1940s in India."
5:30pm,
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 401
For
information, contact Barbara
Papacoda.
Sponsored
by the Council on South Asian Studies.
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Wednesday,
April 21
Githa
Hariharan
author of The Thousand Faces of Night and In
Times of Siege
"The
Politics of Writing: Women, Language and the Postcolonial"
11:30am,
Berkeley College Dining Hall (balcony)
RSVP
required; for information and to RSVP for lunch, contact Geetanjali
Singh Chanda.
Part
of the Occasional Conversations Series, sponsored the Women's & Gender
Studies Program, with support from the Council on South Asian
Studies.
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Thursday,
April 22
Aradhana
Sharma
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies, Wesleyan University
"The
World Bank is Coming: Performing Development, Enacting Empowerment,
and Producing Realities in Rural India"
11:45am-1:00pm,
51 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 1
lunch provided
For
information, contact Ajay
Gandhi, Arian Schulze,
or Devika Bordia.
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,
April 29
Ahmed
Afzal
Doctoral Candidate, Yale Department of Anthropology
"Pakistan
Independence Day Festival in Houston: Public Performance
of a Transnational Pakistani Muslim Nationhood in the Diaspora"
11:45am-1:00pm,
51 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 1
lunch provided
For
information, contact Ajay
Gandhi, Arian Schulze,
or Devika Bordia.
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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March
2004
Thursday,
March 25
Anupama
Rao
Assistant Professor of History, Barnard College
"The
Emergence of a 'Dalit' Public"
11:45am-1:00pm,
51 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 1, lunch provided
For
information, contact Ajay
Gandhi, Arian Schulze,
or Devika Bordia.
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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Friday
and Saturday, March 26 & 27
The
Future of Secularism
A
conference featuring:
Fakir Syed Aijazuddin, historian,
Pakistan
Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University,
USA
Rajeev Bhargava, University of Delhi,
India
Amila Buturovic, York University,
Canada
Dilip M. Menon, University of Delhi,
India
Goenawan Mohamad, former editor
of TEMPO, Indonesia
Dani Rodrik, Harvard University,
USA
Romila Thapar, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, India
Nur Yalman, Harvard University,
USA
Yale
Center for the Study of Globalization
Betts House, 393 Prospect Street
For
information, contact Barbara
Papacoda.
Sponsored
by the Rustgi Family Fund, the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke
Kempf Fund and the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization,
with support from the South Asian Studies Council and the
Council on Middle East Studies at the Yale Center for International
and Area Studies.
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Monday,
March 29
Vijay
Prashad
Associate Professor of International Studies
Trinity College
"The
Desi Bourgeoisie"
11:45am-1:00pm,
51 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 1, lunch provided
For
information, contact Ajay
Gandhi, Arian Schulze,
or Devika Bordia.
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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February
2004
Thursday,
February 5
(3 events)
Lakshmi
Srinivas
Lecturer, Department of Sociology,
Wellesley College
"Nonsense
as Sense-Making: Globalization and Bombay Cinema"
11:45am-1:00pm,
51 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 1
lunch provided
For
information, contact Ajay
Gandhi, Arian Schulze,
or Devika Bordia.
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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Gotham
Chopra
Channel One Anchor and Correspondent
Author of Child of the Dawn
"A
Master's Tea"
4:30pm,
Calhoun College, Master's House
For
information, contact Sailaja
Paidipaty.
Sponsored
by the South Asian Society, the Yale Undergraduate Distinguished
Speaker Series, and Calhoun College.
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Film
Screening
"Fire"
directed by Deepa Mehta
8:30pm, Asian American Cultural Center, 295 Crown Street
Co-sponsored
by the Asian American Cultural Center and the Women's Center.
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Monday,
February 9
Malathi
De Alwis
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
New School University
"Suffering,
Sentiment and Politics in Sri Lanka"
11:45am-1:00pm,
51 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 1
lunch provided
For
information, contact Ajay
Gandhi, Arian Schulze,
or Devika Bordia.
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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Tuesday,
February 10
Harry
Blair
Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer
Department of Political Science
Yale University
"Civil
Society and Pro-Poor Initiatives at the Local Level in Bangladesh:
Finding a Workable Strategy"
12:00pm,
Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect Street
paper
available for download at ponpo.som.yale.edu/.
Lunch provided, RSVP to ponpo@yale.edu
For
information, contact ponpo@yale.edu
Sponsored
by the Program on Non-Profit Organizations (PONPO) at Yale
University.
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Friday,
February 13
Mridu
Rai
Department of History
Yale University
"Making
Hindu Rulers and Muslim Subjects: Religion and Rights in
Kashmir"
12:30pm,
Yale Law School, Law School Faculty Lounge, 127 Wall Street
For information, contact schell.law@yale.edu
Sponsored
by the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International
Human Rights, Human Rights Workshop.
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Tuesday,
February 17
(3 events)
"Whose World Is Possible? Encountering the Free
Trade Area of the Americas Negotiations 2003 and the World
Social Forum Mumbai 2004"
A
discussion with six Master's students from the School of Forestry
and Environmental Studies as they relate their experiences
outside the security perimeter at the 2003 Free Trade Area
of the Americas negotiations in Miami, Florida, and inside
the 2004 World Social Forum in Mumbai, India.
4:00pm,
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
For
information, contact David
Kneas.
Sponsored
by the Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies and
the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
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Tuesday,
February 17
Film
Screening of "Maryam"
7:30pm,
W. L. Harkness Hall 116
For
more information, contact Arafat
Razzaque or muslim.students@yale.edu.
Sponsored
by the Muslim Students
Association of Yale, and the Yale Persian Society.
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Tuesday
- Saturday, February 17-21
for
schedule see:
Islamic Awareness Week:
Women in Islam
A week of events featuring a film screening of "Maryam," a
student panel on "Being a Muslim Woman in America," Master's
Tea with Dr. Ingrid Mattson on "Women
in Islam," Poetry Jam, and gathering with Nishrin
Hussain, a human rights activist and survivor of the February
2002 religious violence in Gujurat, India.
For
more information, contact Arafat
Razzaque or muslim.students@yale.edu.
Sponsored
by the Muslim Students
Association of Yale, the Asian
American Cultural Center, the South
Asian Society, and the Women's
Center.
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Wednesday,
February 18
"Being
a Muslim Woman in America"
A Student Panel
7:00pm,
Asian American Cultural Center, 295 Crown Street
For
more information, contact Arafat
Razzaque or muslim.students@yale.edu.
Sponsored
by the Muslim Students
Association of Yale, and the Asian
American Cultural Center.
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Thursday,
February 19
"Women
in Islam"
A Master's Tea with Ingrid Mattson
Professor of Islamic Studies, Hartford Seminary
4:00pm,
Master's House, Trumbull College
For
more information, contact Arafat
Razzaque or muslim.students@yale.edu.
Sponsored
by the Muslim Students
Association of Yale and Trumbull College.
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Friday,
February 20
Language,
Genre, and the Historical Imagination in South India
An
International Roundtable
Participants
include:
Sheldon Pollock, The University
of Chicago
Thomas Trautmann, University of
Michigan
V. Narayana Rao, University of Wisconsin
Bernard Bate, Yale University
Stephen Hughes, School of Oriental
and African Studies
Rama Mantena, Smith College
Lisa Mitchell, Columbia University
and Bowdoin College
A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Madras
Institute of Development Studies
Amanda Weidman, George Washington
University
REGISTRATION
IS FREE BUT REQUIRED.
Contact: south.asia@yale.edu.
For
information, contact south.asia@yale.edu
9:00am
- 6:00pm, Whitney Humanities Center,
Room 208
Sponsored
by the South Asian Studies Council, Yale Center for International
and Area Studies, the Taraknath Das Fund, and the Department
of History.
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Saturday,
February 21
(2 events)
"Indian
Classical Music Concert:
An Evening of Carnatic Music"
Featuring Shanmugasadasivam
Manickam (vocalist); Vittal Ramamurthy (violin); David
Nelson (mrdangam).
8:00
p.m. Sudler Hall, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall Street.
For
information, contact Swarnameenakshi
Manickam.
Sponsored
by the Council on South Asian Studies, with support from
the Yale Graduate and Professional Student Senate, South
Asian Society, South Asian Graduate Association, Asian American
Cultural Center, Branford College, and Trumbull College.
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A
Discussion with Nishrin Hussain
a human rights activist and survivor of the February 2002 religious
violence in Gujurat, India.
2:00pm,
Women's Center, Durfee Hall
For more information, contact Arafat
Razzaque or muslim.students@yale.edu.
Sponsored
by the Muslim Students
Association of Yale, the South
Asian Society, and the Women's
Center.
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Wednesday,
February 25
Mahesh
Ranjarajan
Cornell University
"From
Princely Symbol to Conservation Icon: A Political History
of the Lion in India"
5:00pm,
Luce Hall, Room 202
Sponsored
by the Council on South Asian Studies.
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Thursday,
February 26
(2 events)
Arindam
Dutta
Assistant Professor of the History of Architecture, MIT
"Cyborg/Artisans
in Benares and the Transnational Differentiation of Indian
Labor"
11:45am-1:00pm,
51 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 1
lunch provided
For
information, contact Ajay
Gandhi, Arian Schulze,
or Devika Bordia.
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,
February 26
T.
Robert Travers
Assistant Professor of History
Harvard University
"British
Orientalism and Colonial State-formation in India c. 1750-1800"
5:00pm, 320 York Street, Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 217B
For
information, contact Brian
Cowan
Sponsored
by the Yale British Studies Seminar
Saturday,
February 28
South
Asia and Globalization:
A Perspective on Corporate Policy and Labor
Organizing
10:30am,
William L. Harkness Hall, Room 119
A
symposium featuring Nayan Chanda, Director
of Publications, Yale Center for the Study
of Globalization; Shyam Sunder, James
L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics,
and Finance, Yale School of Management on "Opening
the Windows: Systemic Consequences of Globalization
in India"; and workshops with Abha
Sur, Senior Lecturer, MIT on "A
Gendered Perspective: How Globalization Affects
Female Workers in South Asia" and Pushpa
Topo and Mukti Banerjee, Worker's
Awaaz) on "Speaking Out: Labor
Organizing in South Asian Communities";
with a keynote address by Vinay Gidwani, Assistant
Professor of Geography and Global Studies and
the McKnight Land-Grant Professor of Geography,
University of Minnesota.
For
information, contact Samir
Sur or Parminder
Singh.
Sponsored
by the South Asian Society Political Action
Committee.
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January 2004
Wednesday,
January 28
Bhaswati Bhattacharya
Public health researcher; physician;
and advocate of holistic healing. Attending
Physician, Department
of Family Practice & Community Medicine
and Director of Research, Department of
Medicine, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center,
New York City
"Issues
of South Asian Health"
Sponsored
by the Asian American Cultural Center, South
Asian Society, and Branford
College.
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Thursday,
January 29
Ajantha
Subramanian
Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
Harvard University
"Uncivil
Majorities: State Spatialization and Differentiated
Citizenship
in Southern India"
11:45am-1:00pm,
51 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 1
lunch provided
For
information, contact Ajay
Gandhi, Arian Schulze,
or Devika Bordia.
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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