February 2005
February 2
4:00 PM
Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Uday Mehta
Amherst College
"Critical Reappraisal of the Constitution and Democracy"
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council with funding provided by the Rustgi Family Fund.
Organized by Thomas Blom Hansen and Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj. For more info, contact south.asia@yale.edu
February 3 (2 Events!)
2:00 PM
Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park Street
The Annual Gandhi Lecture at Yale
Dr. Pravin Bhatt
Secretary, South Asian Studies Council
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council with funding provided by the Bhatt Endowment.
Part of the "Gandhi, King, Ikeda: A Legacy Of Building Peace" Exhibit.
Exhibit and Activities Sponsored by the Marin Luther King Jr. International Chapel of Morehouse College and the Following Yale Coalition for Diversity Partners: Yale Afro-American Cultural Center; Yale University Library; South Asian Studies Council; Yale Center for International and Area Studies; Graduate School Office for Diversity; Yale School of Nursing
For more info, contact pravin.bhatt@yale.edu
February 3
1:30 PM
ISPS Conference Room, 87 Trumbull Street
Jackie Assayag
History, French National Center for Scientific Research, Paris
"Deadly Riots, Partition, or Genocide in South Asia?"
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council and the Genocide Studies Program with funding provided by the Rustgi Family Fund.
Organized by Thomas Blom Hansen and Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj. For more info, contact south.asia@yale.edu
February 4-5
Yale Campus
"Solidarity: Addressing Concerns of the South Asian Diaspora"
A series of workshops, discussions, and speeches intended to springboard political activism at Yale and at other schools in the region.
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council
For more info, contact south.asia@yale.edu or www.yale.edu/sacc
February 6
2:00 PM
Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park Street
Education for Sustainable Development
Workshop and Panel Discussion
Based on a recent article written by Mr. Ikeda, Scientists and humanists brought together to share perspectives and engage in small-group dialogues about creating the conditions to alleviate poverty without destroying the environment in the process. Erich Jarvis, a neurobiologist from Duke University is expected to be part of this group along with one of his mentors.
Part of the "Gandhi, King, Ikeda: A Legacy Of Building Peace" Exhibit.
Exhibit and Activities Sponsored by the Marin Luther King Jr. International Chapel of Morehouse College and the Following Yale Coalition for Diversity Partners: Yale Afro-American Cultural Center; Yale University Library; South Asian Studies Council; Yale Center for International and Area Studies; Graduate School Office for Diversity; Yale School of Nursing
For more info, contact pravin.bhatt@yale.edu
February 9
4:00 PM
Afro-American Cultural Center, 211 Park Street
"Gandhi, King, Ikeda: A Legacy Of Building Peace"
Exhibit Closing Reception featuring
Ronald Bosco
Distinguished Service Professor of English and American Literature, The University at Albany, Former President (2000-2004) of the Thoreau Society.
"Henry Thoreau's One Night in the Concord Jail and Its Global Legacy of Non-violent Dissent"
Exhibit and Activities Sponsored by the Marin Luther King Jr. International Chapel of Morehouse College and the Following Yale Coalition for Diversity Partners: Yale Afro-American Cultural Center; Yale University Library; South Asian Studies Council; Yale Center for International and Area Studies; Graduate School Office for Diversity; Yale School of Nursing
For more info, contact pravin.bhatt@yale.edu
February 16
4:00 PM
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Veronique Benei
Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University
“Constructing New Citizens in Military Schools: Gender, Hybridity and Modernity in Maharashtra”
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council with funding provided by the Rustgi Family Fund.
Organized by Thomas Blom Hansen and Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj. For more info, contact south.asia@yale.edu
February 18 (2 events!)
12:00 PM
Room 1, 51 Hillhouse Avenue. Lunch provided.
Arindam Dutta
Associate Professor of the History of Architecture, MIT
"Of AbOriginal and CopyRight: The Work of the Aesthetic in the Age of its Global Reproducibility"
Sponsored by the South Asian Graduate Students Colloquium
For more info, contact ajay.gandhi@yale.edu
February 18-19, 2005
CONFERENCE
Health Crisis in South Asia
Socioeconomic and Opportunistic Disease Consequences of AIDS
Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Auditorium
For information, contact south.asia@yale.edu.
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council and the Center for Interdisclipinary Research on AIDS (CIRA), with support from the Rustgi Family Fund, the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund at Yale, and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.
February 23
4:00 PM
Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
E. Annamalai
Tamil, Yale University
"The Rural-Urban Divide in India: The Issue of English"
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council with funding provided by the Rustgi Family Fund.
Organized by Thomas Blom Hansen and Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj. For more info, contact south.asia@yale.edu
February 25
3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
(screening 4-6pm)
Yale Center for British Art Auditorium
Maqbool
Film Screening and Discussion with
Producer Bobby Bedi
What would Macbeth do in Modern Bombay? Maqbool is an award-winning adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in the Bombay underworld.
Sponsored by The South Asian Studies Council (SASC), the British Arts Center, the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, and the Asian American Cultural Center. The SASC gratefully acknowledges support provided by the Rustgi Family Fund.
March 2005
March 2
4:00 PM
Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Daniel Jasper
Sociology, Moravian College.
"Mobilizing the Past: Shivaji as Political Symbol in Maharasthra"
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council with funding provided by the Rustgi Family Fund.
Organized by Thomas Blom Hansen and Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj. For more info, contact south.asia@yale.edu
March 22
4:00 PM
Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Chris Fuller
Anthropology, London School of Economics
"Information Technology Professionals and the New-rich Middle Class in Chennai (Madras)"
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council and Anthropology with funding provided by the Rustgi Family Fund.
Organized by Thomas Blom Hansen and Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj. For more info, contact south.asia@yale.edu
April 2005
April 6
4:00 PM
Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Phyllis Granoff
Religious Studies, Yale University
"Protecting the Faith: Exploring the Concerns of Jain Monastic Rules"
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council with funding provided by the Rustgi Family Fund.
Organized by Thomas Blom Hansen and Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj. For more info, contact south.asia@yale.edu
April 8
11:00 AM
3rd Floor Auditorium Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Avenue
Lauren Leve
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Liberal Values, Failed Development‚ and Rural Revolution in Nepal: the Radical Politics of Women's Empowerment"
Part of the Program in Agrarian Studies Colloquium Series "Hinterlands, Frontiers, Cities and States: Transactions and Identities." For More Info call (203) 432-9833 or visit www.yale.edu/agrarianstudies
Celebrating South Asia
A festival highlighting South Asia at Yale
Click to view information.
April 13
4:00 PM
Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Sudipta Kaviraj
Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS
"An Outline of a Revisionist Theory of Modernity"
South Asia Studies Council Annual Rustgi Lecture
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council with funding provided by the Rustgi Family Fund.
Organized by Thomas Blom Hansen and Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj. For more info, contact south.asia@yale.edu
April 14
4:00 PM
Room 1, 158 Whitney Avenue
Upinder Singh
Delhi University
“Amaravati: The Modern History of an Ancient Buddhist Monument”
2004-2005 Tarak Nath Das Lecture
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council and Anthropology.
For more info, contact south.asia@yale.edu.
April 15
9:00AM
Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Knowing South Asia?
Reflections on Authenticity, Belonging, Nationhood and Diaspora
Participants include: MG Vassanji, author and founder of Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad; Samina Ali, author of Madras on Rainy Days; Suketu Mehta, fiction writer and journalist; and Meena Alexander, author of Fault Lines, an autobiography.
Organized by the South Asian Studies Council. Sponsored by Canadian Studies, Pierson College, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Asian American Cultural Center, and the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund.
April 15-17
Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Manipulating Magic: Sages, Sorcerers, and Scholars
Keynote Address
April 15
4:00PM
Gregory Schopen
University of California at Los Angeles
"The Life and Travels of a Sanskrit Verse, or:
Why We are All in the Same Room Today"
Sponsored the the South Asian Studies Council and the East Asian Studies Council.
Please contact eastasian.studies@yale.edu to register by 4/8. Click on title for details on the conference.
April 18
4:00pm
Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Gen. Ven Prakash Malik
India's Chief of Staff, Army 1997-2000
"A Security Perspective on India and the World"
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council.
For more information, contact south.asia@yale.edu.
April 21
12:00
Room 1, 51 Hillhouse Avenue. Lunch provided.
Ahmed Afzal
PhD Candidate in Anthropology
"The (Un)Making of a South Asian Aesthetic: The Circulation of Bollywood in Pakistan and amongst Pakistani immigrants in the West"
Sponsored by the South Asian Graduate Students Colloqium
For more info, contact ajay.gandhi@yale.edu
