Wednesday, October 10
Dr. Narendra Jadhav
Chief Economist of the Reserve Bank of India
“Changing Contours of the Caste System in India,
Religious and Socioeconomic Dimensions”
4:00pm
Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
For details and information, contact South Asian Studies Council at 432-5596 or barbara.papacoda@yale.edu.
Wednesday, October 19
Aesthetics & Politics--Reflections on Image, Power and Modern Pakistan
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4-6pm
Room 102, Linsly-Chittenden Hall
63 High Street
A series of collaborative works by six contemporary Pakistani artists followed by a panel discussion about Pakistani culture and politics chaired by Professor Abbas Amanat. Panelists from Yale include; Veronique Benet, Shameem Black, Courtney Martin, Dhooleka Raj, Emilie Townes, Farzin Vahdat and Laura Wexler. Other panelists are Faisal Devji, The New School; Mahnaz Anwar Fancy, Director of Arts of the Islamic World; Jonathan Katz, Larry Kramer Initiative; Naveeda Khan, John Hopkins University.
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council & Yale South Asian Society.
Tuesday, November 1
Dilip Menon
Reader in History, University of Delhi
"Re: Tension/Retention:
Thinking About the History of Sexuality in Modern India"
As part of the Public Modernities in Asia Colloquium.
Location & Time TBA
For more info, contact ajay.gandhi@yale.edu, olga.sooudi@yale.edu.
November 2, 4:00 - 6:00pm
South Asia Seminar Fall 2005
"Histories of the Future: Internationalism
in early 20th century Bengal"
Manu Goswami
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council
For more info, contact barbara.papacoda@yale.edu
November 4, 4:00 - 6:00pm
Rustgi Annual Lecture
"On the Difficulty of Being Good:
Can moral insights from the
Mahabharata address contemporary public and corporate
governance failures?"
Gurcharan Das
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council.
For more info, contact south.asia@yale.edu
November 9, 4:00 - 6:00pm
South Asia Seminar Fall 2005
"'A Special Kind of Speech' The
Distinctiveness of Sanskrit Poetry"
Gary Tubb
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council
For more info, contact barbara.papacoda@yale.edu
November 30, 4:00 - 6:00pm
South Asian Studies Seminar
"Committed Mothers and Well Adjusted
Children: Privatization, Early-Years Education and Motherhood
in Calcutta"
Henike Donner
Luce Hall, Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council
For more info, contact south.asia@yale.edu