2009 Fall Lecture Series

September 10, 2009
What Happened to Race in South Asia? The Curious Case of Salman Rushdie
Deepika Bahri (Associate Professor, Department of English, Emory University)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

September 17, 2009
From the Cradle to the Forest: Swings, Celebration, and Krishna
Cynthia Packert (Professor and Chair, History of Art and Architecture, Middlebury College)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

September 24, 2009
Representing India’s Pasts: Time, Culture, and the Problems of Performance Historiography
Aparna Dharwadker (Professor, Dept. of Theatre and Drama & Dept. of English, UW-Madison)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

October 1, 2009
Living the Text in South India
Sangeeta Desai (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia, UW-Madison)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

October 8, 2009
From Shahbano to Kausar Bano – Contextualizing the ‘Muslim Woman’ within a Communalized Polity
Flavia Agnes (Attorney, Bombay High Court)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

October 15, 2009
The Native Intermediary and the Engineering of Colonial Bombay
Preeti Chopra (Assistant Professor, Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW-Madison)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

October 29, 2009
Musical Osmosis: Growing into Music in North India
Nicolas Magriel (Musician and Ethnomusicologist)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

November 5, 2009
An Aesthetics of Excess: Gangamma Jatara in Tirupati
Joyce Flueckiger (Professor, Department of Religion, Emory University)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

November 10, 2009
Coalition Politics in the 2009 Indian Election
Eswaran Sridharan (Academic Director, University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India)
Time: 5:30-6:30 PM
Location: Auditorium, Wisconsin Historical Society

 

November 12, 2009
Anxious Fascination: Yogis in Mughal, Company, and Raj-Period Paintings and Photographs
Robert Linrothe (Associate Professor, Art History, Skidmore College)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

November 19, 2009
The Duplicity of Paper and the Problem of Attestation in Early Colonial Madras
Bhavani Raman (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Princeton University)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

November 20, 2009
Perceptions and Reality: The Fall and Rise of the Indian Metals Industry Through Three Millennia
Paul Craddock (Emeritus, British Museum, Department of Conservation, Documentation and Scientific Research)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 5230 Social Sciences Building

 

December 3, 2009
The Political Economy of Policy Failure in the Post-Independence States
Aminur Rahim (Fulbright Scholar and Honorary Fellow)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall