Wednesday, March 30, 2011

stanford: 'south asia' Events this Quarter

mar 29th, 2011 CE

true to form, most of these events seem to be 'secular' and 'progressive', in other words, anti-india and specifically anti-hindu.

i once listened to a lecture by aishwary kumar. talk of po-co, po-mo, po-co (politically correct, post-modern, post-colonial). in other words, it was meaningless, and so i walked out after about 20 mins of insufferable boredom. reminded me of the 'dada engine'.

true to form, most of these events seem to be 'secular' and 'progressive', in other words, anti-india and specifically anti-hindu.

there's probably funding coming from the usual suspects: the baptists and the saudis.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sangeeta Mediratta <smedirat@stanford.edu>
Date: 2011/3/30
Subject: Spring is here: CSA Events this Quarter
To: southasia@lists.stanford.edu, southasiafaculty@lists.stanford.edu, southasiastudents@lists.stanford.edu, hs-events-announcements@lists.stanford.edu, risip <risip@stanford.edu>, monica.moore@stanford.edu, Chris Williams <cbwillia@stanford.edu>, Emily Bishop <ebishop1@stanford.edu>, Revathi Krishnaswamy <rkrishna@email.sjsu.edu>


Dear All,  Please see the list of our upcoming events. The flyer for our Spring lecture series is attached and pasted below. Thanks, Sangeeta

                                                   

CSA SPRING 2011

LECTURE SERIES

Wednesday, March 30, Encina Hall West, Room 208, 4 pm

William Elison, (Stanford University), The Fakir's Mask: Public Apparitions of Sai Baba in and around Mumbai

Wednesday, April 6, noon-4 p.m., CCSRE (Building 360) conference room, first floor

Minority as Cultural Form: India's Dalits in the 21st Century

Gopal Guru (Jawaharlal Nehru University) in conversation with Anupama Rao (Barnard College)

The conversation will be followed by a roundtable discussion on B.R. Ambedkar among Gopal Guru, Anupama Rao, Aishwary Kumar (Stanford University), Vinayak Chaturvedi (University of California, Irvine), and Revathi Krishnaswamy (San Jose State University).

Wednesday, April 13, Encina Hall West, Room 208, 4 pm

Sudipta Sen (UC Davis), Lawlessness and the Cinematic Popular in 1970s India: Meditations on Sholay

Wednesday, April 20, Encina Hall West, Room 208, 4 pm

Arvind Rajagopal (New York University), The Life of the Image in the Time of the Nation: Visual Culture from Bazaar Art to Satellite Television

Wednesday, May 4, Stanford Humanities Center Board Room, 11 a.m.

 Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan), The Framing of the Past in Four Generations of Modern Indian Art

Tuesday, May 10, Encina Hall West, Room 208, 4 pm

Ranjan Kamath, Screening of Tanvir Ka Safarnama (part of "The Agents of Change" Trilogy) followed by discussion with Ranjan Kamath

Wednesday, May 11, Encina Hall West, Room 208, 4 p.m.

William Mazarella (University of Chicago), "A Different Kind of Flesh": Public Obscenity, Globalization, and the Mumbai Dance Bar Ban

Thursday, May 19, Encina Hall West, Room 208, 4 pm

Chandan Gowda (National Law School of India), Kannada Language Activism in Bangalore: Historical Origins, Contemporary Predicament

Tuesday, May 24, Encina Hall West, Room 208, 3 p.m. 

Bulbul Tiwari (Stanford University),  Mahamultipedia: A Sanskrit Epic Vessel on Digital Waters

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KITAAB MANDAL (MEET THE AUTHOR SERIES)

Tuesday, April 19, Building 50, Room 51, 4-6pm
 
 
Ritty Lukose (New York University), Liberalization's Children: Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India
 
Tuesday, May 16, Building 50, Room 51, 4-6pm 
Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar (Brown University), The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories (Cultures of History)

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FILM SERIES

Thursday, April 28, Bechtel International Center, Assembly Room, 5 p.m.
Mr. India, Introduced by Bulbul Tiwari (Stanford University)

Thursday, May 12, 
Bechtel International Center, Assembly Room, 5 p.m.
 Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Introduced by William Elison (Stanford University)

Thursday, May 26, Bechtel International Center, Assembly Room, 5 p.m.
 
 
Black Friday, Introduced by Sangeeta Mediratta (Stanford University)

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CO-SPONSORED EVENTS

April 5, Margaret Jacks Hall (460), Terrace Room, 12-2 p.m.
 

 

Krishna Sen (University of Calcutta), Of Panthers, Black and Dalit: Identity Politics and Cultural Nationalism in America and India

(Sponsored by the Program in American Studies)


April 7-8, Room 134A, Lucas Conference Center, Landau Economics Building

Muslim Identities and Imperial Spaces: 
 

Networks, Mobility, and the Geopolitics of Empire and Nation 

 

(1600-2011)

 

(Sponsored by The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies)


Islamic Studies Workshop Series: "Literature and Identity in South and Southeast Asia" 
All workshops take place  from noon to 1:00 pm in Encina Hall West, Room 208. 
Workshop papers are available to Stanford affiliates upon request by email to 
abbasiprogram@stanford.edu

April 28: Nile Green (Department of History, UCLA), "Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean"

May 19: Shantanu Phukan (Comparative Religious Studies, San Jose State University), TBA

May 26: Azhar Ibrahim (Abbasi Program Visiting Scholar; National University of Singapore), "Discoursing Social Theology: New Ways of Doing Theology and Knowing Islam in Muslim Southeast Asia"

(Sponsored by The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies)



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1 comment:

Pagan said...

What America gets in return for liberating Kosovo.

Execution-Style Killings

Arid U. (originally from Kosovo) had apparently gone to the airport armed with a pistol and two knives to look for American soldiers. When he recognized a group of soldiers, he asked one of them for a cigarette and checked whether they were on their way to Afghanistan. After the airman had confirmed that they were, U. shot him in the head from behind as he turned back toward the bus.

Then, prosecutors said, U. boarded the bus and shot the 21-year-old driver dead. He then went farther into the bus and shot two other airmen, aged 25 and 21. The two men survived the attack with serious injuries, though one is still in a critical condition.