Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The India Studies Department Lecture Series

Each semester, the Indiana University India Studies Program sponsors a series of guest lectures and other events designed to bring the leading figures of the politics, arts, and cultures of India and South Asia to the Bloomington campus. Our events are presented free of charge and are open to students, faculty, and the community at large.

The full lineup of fall programming:

September 23 - Lecture, Visibly Muslim: The Emergence of new Islamic Fashions in the West, Emma Tarlo, Lecturer in Anthropology, Goldsmith's College, University of London. 7:00 pm in Woodburn Hall, RM 004.

October 4 - Lecture, Teashops, Toastmasters and Transnationalism: Urdu Poets and Global Flows in North Indiana and the Arabian Gulf, Christopher Lee, Associate Professor of Religous Studies, Canisius College. 7:00 PM in Woodburn Hall RM 004.

October 11 - Lecture,  Representing the Aural: Reflection on Music Histories in South Asia, Lakshmi Subramanian, Professor of History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. 7:00 pm in Morrison Hall, RM 007.

October 23 - Performance of classical Indian dance, Pallabi Chakravorty, Assistant Professor, Department of Music and Dance, Swarthmore College. Time and location to be announced.

November 11 - Lecture, Jain Satire and Religious Identity in Tamil-Speaking Literary Culture, Anne Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions, Harvard University. 7:00 PM in Myers Hall, RM 130.

November 18 - The Shiva and Ram Avtar Tiwari Memorial Lecture, Gandhian Approaches to Land and Water Rights, Whitney Sanfor, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Florida. 7:00 PM in Ballantine Hall RM 005.

December 6 - Lecture, Sita Sings the Blues, Aseem Chhabra, Writer and journalist, New York, 7:00 PM in Morrison Hall, RM 007.

The latest information about these events can be fount at http://www.indiana.edu/~isp/events-f10.shtml.

To receive e-mail notices of India Studies events, send a message to india@indiana.edu

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