September 13, 2007
Beyond the Main Road: Women’s Sung Mythology from Kangra, Northwest India
Kirin Narayan (Professor, Anthropology, UW-Madison)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
September 20, 2007
Finding Harmony: Ethics through Performance and Story
Leela Prasad (Associate Professor, Ethics and Indian Religions, Duke University)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
September 21, 2007
Pakistan: Democracy and Stability
Ejaz Haider (News Editor, The Friday Times and Foreign/Op-Editor of The Daily Times Lahore, Pakistan)
Time: 1-3 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
September 27, 2007
Shamans, Herbalists, and State Discourses of Indigenous Development in North India:
Theory and Method in the Anthropology of Environmentality
Jeffery Snoddgrass (Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
October 4, 2007
Earth I love
Satish Kumar, Editor, Resurgence Magazine
Time: 5-6:30 PM
Location: Vandeberg Auditorium, Pyle Center
October 18, 2007
Women and Land: Perspectives from North India
Smita Tewari Jassal (Anthropologist, Gender and Development, Columbia University
and Cross-Cultural Communications, American University)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
October 25, 2007
Hijras, “AIDS Cosmopolitanism” and Questions of Care in Hyderabad
Dr. Gayatri Reddy (Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Gender and Women’s Studies,
University of Illinois at Chicago)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
November 1, 2007
Prana: The Element of Inner Vitality in Indic Art
Dr. Vajracharya, Ph.D. in Art History in 1987 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
November 8, 2007
Bead Technology of the Indus Tradition: New discoveries of stone, faience, and glass bead
making in Pakistan and India
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer (Professor, Anthropology, and Director, Center for South Asia, UW-Madison)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
November 15, 2007
History of Tibetan Medicine: Past and Present
Dr. Yangbum Gyal, TMD, Medicine Buddha Healing Center
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
November 28, 2007
Roundtable: “The New Developmental State in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
Africa: Implications for Law and Policy
Featured Speakers: David M. Trubek (Law); Kathryn Hendley (Law and Political Science);
Aseema Sinha (Political Science); John Ohnesoge (Law), and Heinz Klug (Law)
Time: 12 PM
Location: Lubar Commons (7200 Law)
November 29, 2007
Maneuvers of Virtue: Encounters With Militia Training and Violence in a Shakha of the
Hindu Nationalist Movement in Gujarat
Arafaat A. Valiani (Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, Williams College)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
December 6, 2007
Media and Democracy in India
Aziz Haniffa (Managing Editor, “India Abroad”) and KP Nayar (Chief Diplomatic Editor
and Correspondent for the Americas, “The Telegraph”)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
December 13, 2007
Rethinking Rasa as an Aesthetic Principle in the Visual Arts
Dr. Joanna Williams (Professor, Art History, University of California, Berkeley)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall