September 2006
Thursday, September 21 @ 4:30PM
(451 College Street. Rm B04)
Ronald Davidson, Fairfield University
"The Inception of Secrecy: From Protective Spells to the Path of Mantras"
Part of the The Asian Religions Lecture Series, sponsored by the Society for Study of Asian Religions and the Council on East Asian Studies.
Wednesday, September 27 @ 4:30PM
(Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Rm. 203)
Arvind Panagariya, Economics, Columbia University
"India's Economy: The Challenge it Poses and the Challenge it Faces"
Sponsored by the South Asia Studies Council, supported by the Rustgi Family Fund
Thursday, September 28 @ 4:30PM
(451 College Street)
Dr. Philliip Wagoner, Wesleyan University
"Reviving the Chalukyan Past in the 16th Century Deccan: Archaeological and Literary"
Sponsored by the Society for Study of Asian Religions
October 2006
Tuesday, October 3 @ 4:30PM
(Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Rm. 203)
Dr. Ashok Khosla, founder of Development Alternatives will speak on:
"Strategies for Sustainable Development from South Asia"
Ashok Khosla is president and founder of Development Alternatives in New Delhi. The mission of Development Alternatives is to promote sustainable development through “innovative technology, effective institutional systems and environmental and resource management methods.” Dr. Khosa is also president of Technology and Action for Rural Advancement. From 1976-1982 he served as director at the United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi. Dr.Khosla received the UN Sasakawa Environmental Prize in 2002. He is currently Vice President of the Club of Rome and serves on numerous boards, including the World Conservation Union and the WWF. He received his PhD from Harvard University in Experimental Physics, where he was instrumental in introducing courses on the environment into the curriculum.
Sponsored by the South Asia Studies Council and supported by the Rustgi Family Fund.
Wednesday, October 4 @ 4:00PM
(Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 119-B)
Sushil Chaudhury, Professor, University of Calcutta
"Indian Ocean Trade - 16th-18th Century"
Sponsored by the Yale Department of History
Wednesday, October 11 @ 4:30PM
(Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave., Rm. 203)
Dr. Isabelle Clark-Deces, Anthropology, Princeton University
"Between Culture and Consciousness: On Seeing Effigies in Tamil Rituals"
Sponsored by the South Asia Studies Council, supported by the Rustgi Family Fund
Wednesday, October 11 @ 4:00pm
(Davenport College, 248 York Street)
Davenport College Master's Tea with
Amita Dutt, Rabindra Bharati Univeristy
"History and Aesthetics of the Classical Dance from North India, Kathak"
Wednesday, October 11 @ 7:30PM
(Sudler Hall, 100 Wall Street)
Amita Dutt, famed Kathak dancer
and
Amaan and Ayaan Ali Khan, classical musicians
Sponsored by the South Asian Society and the South Asian Studies Council,
supported by the Rustgi Family Fund
Wednesday, October 18 @ 4:30PM
(Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave., Rm. 203)
Osmund Bopearrachchi, Center d'Archeologie, France
"New Evidence on Early Buddhist Art in Begram-Kapisi Region"
Sponsored by the South Asia Studies Council, supported by the Rustgi Family Fund
Thursday, October 19 @ 4:30PM
(451 College Street, RmB04)
Osmund Bopearrachchi, Center d'Archeologie, France
"Sculptures of Amaravati Style from Tissamaharama (Sri Lanka): an Appraisal of Early Buddhist Sculptures from Sri Lanka"
Sponsored by the Society for Study of Asian Religions
Wednesday, October 25 @ 4:30PM.
(WLH, Room 208,
100 Wall Street)
South Asia Seminar
Ramachandra Guha, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
"The Challenge of Contemporary History: Questions from India"
Supported by the Rustgi Family Fund.
For special assistance or further information, please contact Barbara Papacoda at 203-432-5596 or barbara.papacoda@yale.edu.
November 2006
Thursday, November 2 @ 4:30PM
(451 College Street. Rm B04)
Dr. Peter Gottschalk, Wesleyan University
"The Science of Communalism: Epistemologies of Difference in British India"
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council, supported by the Rustgi Family Fund
Friday, November 3 @ 7:30PM
(Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, 2nd Floor)
Classical Tabla and Sitar Performance with
Kumar Das
Kumar Das has performed tabla internationally from his native Bangladesh to Japan and throughout the US. He has been instructed and mentored from the age of 3 by his father and world class master musicians, and is presently a disciple of Pandit Samir Chatterjee. Kumar has multiple National Artist's Gold Medal Awards in Classical Tabla music. He has a current CD of classical performances, "Atlantic Seaside", and is currently working on a new recording with his Jazz group, Sudar.
And
Daisy Paradis
Daisy Paradis has been a disciple of Maestro Ali Akbar Khan since 1966. She has studied sitar with Krishna Bhatt, as well as attended workshops with Pdt. Ravi Shankar and Nikhil Banerjee. She is a co-founder of the Ali Akbar College of Music in California with Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, and served on the Board of the India Festival in San Francisco. She is also a Board member of World Music Institute and Lotus Fine Arts.
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council and supported by the Rustgi Family Fund
November 6 @ 7:00 PM
(Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue)
Reading/Discussion with 1997 Yale Alumna
Chandra Prasad
on her new books
Death of a Circus
(Red Hen Press)
"Puts a fresh spin on the timeworn myths of the big top. Chandra Prasad's Death of a Circus is narrated with Dickensian verve, a keen eye for historical detail, and lots of heart." -- Tom Perrotta, best selling author of Little Children and Election.
Mixed
An Anthology of Short Fiction on the
Multiracial Experience
(W. W. Norton)
"Nuanced, thoughtful, and deeply human, MIXED will appeal to anyone
for whom the idea of 'homeland' is less a place than a state of mind." -- Bliss Broyard, author of My Father, Dancing.
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council, supported by the Rustgi Family Fund
Wednesday, November 15 @ 4:30PM
(Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Rm 203)
Paul Brass, University of Washington
"Institutionalized Riot Systems in India"
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council, supported by the Rustgi Family Fund
Decemberr 2006
Tuesday, December 5 @ 4:30PM
(SSS Auditorium, 1 Prospect St.)
Oopali Operajita, Virtuoso Classical Indian Danseuse in
A Classical Odissi Dance Recital
"Absolute empress of the dance!" Marie Claire, Paris
"the best Odissi interpreter today." P V Subramaniam, The Statesman, New Delhi
"Those crafty, curling undulations of her wrist: the never-ending rotation of her hips...that entranced articulation of fingers as an effulgence of flowering.... Operajita is a lyric poem, a figure of erotic dignity and tunefulness.... A commonplace Odissi dancer will seem to be a chronic code-guzzler, ecstatically aping the gestural script she has inherited. But a virtuoso will do something else, almost un-hoped for, and almost insane: she will remind us that every moment is a making." American poet Molly McQuade
Sponsored by the South Asia Studies Council and Rustgi Family Fund
Wednesday, December 6 @ 4:30PM
(Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave., Rm. 203)
Lecture by Oopali Operajita, Classical Indian Dancer
"Dance as Fluid Sculpture: The Example of Classical Odissi"
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