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The South Asia Center Events - Spring 2012

The Future of Indian Studies

A Lecture Series

Friday, February 10, 2012, 3 PM, Jefferson Hall, Hotel C

"Scholars and Spices: the Early Emergence of South Asian Area Studies, and Reflections on its Future," Nicholas B. Dirks, Columbia University

 

Friday, March 23, 2012 3 PM, Jefferson Hall, Hotel C

"Studying Contemporary India: Questions and methods Beyond the Concerns of American Academia," Devesh Kapur, University of Pennsylvania

 

Thursday, April 19, 2012 3 PM, Jefferson Hall, Hotel C

"India and the Future of Philology," Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University

 

Thursday, April 26, 2012 3 PM, Jefferson Hall, Hotel C

"The Global Future of South Asian Studies," Mark Jurgensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Future of Indian Studies Lecture Seires sponsored by the South Asia Centre and the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society.

 

Past Events 2011

January

January 28th, 2011, 4 PM. "Uphold the World," Bruce Rich

February

February 9, 4 PM. "Approaches to Sovereignty in the Context of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile," Fiona McConnell

February 24th, 5 PM. “Writing and the Recognition of Customary Law in Premodern India and Java,” Tim Lubin, Washington and Lee University

PART OF THE CSAS LECTURE SERIES ON HINDU LAW

Friday, February 25, 11 AM. "Celibacy and Sexuality" Paul Groner, University of Virginia and Amy K. Ogden, University of Virginia.

PART OF THE PREMODERN CONVERSATION SERIES

March

 Wednesday, March 16th at 4:30 PM. "Maoism in India: Reincarnation of Ultra-left Wing Extremism in India," Bidyut Chakrabarty, Visiting Gandhi Chair, Mahatma Gandhi Center for Nonviolence, James Madison University

Friday March 25, 3 PM. Film Screening: Children Playing the Gods.

April

Wednesday, April 20th, 5 PM. “How Hindu is Hindu Law? Religion, Nation, and Gender in Hindu Personal Law Debates, 1920-2006,”  Rina Williams, University of Virginia 

 PART OF THE SAC LECTURE SERIES ON HINDU LAW

Friday, April 8th, 6-9 PM. Film screening: Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.

Friday, April 22nd, 6-9 PM Film screening: Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth) Starring Aamir Khan

May

Sunday, May 1, 5 PM. Bengali New Year Celebration

September

Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 3:30 PM

"Tantric Interpretations of Ganesha," Dr. Gudrun Buhnemann

October

Monday, October 3, 2011, 12 PM

"Mission Improbable: The Jesuit Enterprise in Tibet, 1624-1721," Dr. Michael Sweet, Dr. Lennie Zwilling, and Dr. Trent Pomplum

Friday, October 7, 2011, 1 PM

"Alignment, Realignment, and Paths of Syntactic Change: a Case Study from Indo-Aryan," Dr. Peter Hook

Thursday, October 20, 2011, 4 PM

"Corruption, Poverty, and Political Power: the Great Democratic Game," Dr. Narayan Lakshman

Friday, October 21, 2011 3 PM

"Working with Sanskrit and Tibetan Texts," Dragomir Dimitrov, University of Marburg

November

November 2-3, 2011

A Literary Symposium: "The Literary City in South Asia: Location, Imagination and Discourse"

November 14, 2011, 6 PM - 7:30 PM

"Victorious in War, Defeated in Peace," The Honorable Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Former President of Sri Lanka, 1994-2005

November 17, 2011, 2 PM - 3PM

"Preparing for a Career Linked to South Asia," Ambassador Robert O. Blake, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia

November 19, 2011, 7 PM

"A Night of Indian Dance with Ms. Rama Vaidyanathan," Rama Vaidyanathan

 

2010

Fulbright-Nehru Lecture Series. Dr. Anik K. Chatterjee, professor of Political Science, at Presidency University, Kolkata, in residence at U.Va as Fulgright-Nehru fellow, will give a series of three lectures, entitled: "U.S.-India Relations: Problems and Prospects."

• Oct 20th: 4pm in Gibson Hall 211, Dr. Chatterjee will be speaking on “Civil Nuclear Agreement and Beyond: U.S.- India Relations under the Obama Administration.”
  

Center for South Asia lecture

• Oct 21st: 5pm in Gibson Hall 211. Dr. Donald Davis, Associate Professor
  University of Wisconsin at Madison, will speak on "Looking for Law in all the Wrong Places: 'Responsa' and the Practice of Hindu Law”