2010 Fall Lecture Series

Thursday, September 9, 2010
Education and Modernity in India
Nita Kumar (Professor of South Asian History, Claremont McKenna College)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Pakistan: Democracy in the Age of Terrorism
Mohammed Waseem (Professor of Political Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences)
Time: 5:30-7:00 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

Thursday, September 16, 2010
Biotrash in Chennai: On the Neoliberal Governmentality of Risk and Value
Sarah Hodges (Associate Professor, History Department, University of Warwick)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

Monday, September 20, 2010
India’s Energy Scenario and Climate Change
Surendra L. Rao (Member, Board of Governors, Institute for Social and Economic Change, India)
Time: 5-7 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

Thursday, September 23, 2010
Education and Gendered Citizenship in Pakistan: A Postcolonial Investigation
Ayaz Naseem (Associate Professor of Education, Concordia University)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

Thursday, September 30, 2010
Anuvaad (Translation), Anukaran (Mimesis), Samvaad (Dialogue): Translating Bertolt Brecht’s Die Dreigroschenoper (1928) as Teen Kaudi ki Nautanki (2010)
B. Venkat Mani (Associate Professor, German, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

Thursday, October 1, 2010
Micro and Macro Perspectives on Indian Journalism: A Case Study of a Minority Community
Jehangir Patel (Journalist and Editor of Parsiana, and Lecturer in Journalism, Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

Thursday, October 14, 2010
The socio-economic cost of conflict to the people of Pakistan
Imtiaz Gul (Journalist and Independent Scholar)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 336 Ingraham Hall

 

Thursday, October 21, 2010
Engaging the Adventurers: A New Perspective on Dharmapala and Olcott in Colonial Lanka
Anne Blackburn (Asian Studies Department, Cornell University)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

Thursday, October 28, 2010
The Ottoman Empire, the Indian Ocean, and the Dialectic of Universal Sovereignty
Giancarlo Casale (Associate Professor, History, University of Minnesota)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

Thursday, November 4, 2010
Multiple Idioms of Contemporary Indian Dance
Ketu Katrak (Professor, Department of Drama, University of California, Irvine)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

Thursday, November 11, 2010
The River of Kings and The Ocean of Stories: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Tantrikas in the Rajatarangini and the Kathasaritsagra
John Nemec (Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

Thursday, November 18, 2010
Unicorns in Ancient India and the Utilization of Their Horns for Making Vedic Ritual Implements
Gautama Vajracharya (Emeritus Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

 

Thursday, December 2, 2010
Waking Life/ Working Life: The Sleepless Subjects of the Indian Call Center Economy
Mathangi Krishnamurty (Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall