February 3, 2005
A Traveler’s Tale: Views from being in South Asia after the Tsunami
Joe Elder (Professor, Languages and Cultures of Asia and Sociology, UW-Madison)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 6203 Social Sciences
February 10, 2005
Dancing Disjunctures: Memory, Identity, Performance and the Devadasis of TeluguSpeaking
South India
Davesh Soneji (Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, McGill University)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
February 17, 2005
The Language of Images: Reflection upon Tantric Visualizations
Sthaneshwar Timalsina (Lecturer, Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures,
Washington University)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
February 24, 2005
Manu’s Code of Law: Text, Ideology, and Social History
Patrick Olivelle (Professor and Chair, Asian Studies, University of Texas-Austin)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
March 2, 2005
When Farmers Die: the Agrarian Crisies, Farmers Suicide and the Media in India
P. Sainath (Development Writer and Author)
Time: 5-6:30 PM
Location: Pyle Center Auditorium
March 3, 2005
Images of a Sacred Landscape: Visual Constructions of Religious Identity in Nepal
Dina Bangdel (Art Historian, Ohio University)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: Elvejhem Museum
March 10, 2005
God as King, God as Ascetic: Jain Theology and the Ornamentation of Temple Images
John Cort (Professor, Religion, Denison University)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
March 17, 2005
The Wars in Nepal
Mary Des Chene (Co-editor, Studies in Nepali History and Society)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
April 14, 2005
Debate and Commentary in Tibetan Monastic Education
Georges Dreyfus (Professor, Religion, Williams College)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
April 21, 2005
Being a Buddhist Nun: the Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas
Kim Gutschow (Visiting Assistant Professor, Religion, Williams College)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall