September 17
"Some Aspects of Linguistic Speculation in Kashmir Shaivism"
R. Torella, University of Rome, Italy
Co-sponsored by the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies

September 27-29
"International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT) TI2002 Conference"
Co-sponsored by the Tamil community, INFITT, and the UCB Chair in Tamil Studies

October 2
“The Making of Islamic Militancy in South Asia”
Vali Nasr, Political Science, University of San Diego
Interviewed by Harry Kriesler, Executive Director of the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley
The interview can be accessed at: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Nasr/nasr-con0.html

October 17
“Information Technology and India's Growth: Business from Bangalore to Bhatinda”
Nirvikar Singh, Department of Economics, UC Santa Cruz
Co-sponsored by the Haas South Asia Club

October 22
“Kashmir: Untold Histories”
Urvashi Butalia, Kali for Women, New Delhi
Co-sponsored by the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies

October 24
Screening of the film “Bombay Eunuch” and discussion with Co-Director Sean MacDonald
Co-sponsored by Comparative Literature, Film Studies and the South Asia Film Working Group

October 28
“Purity and Difference: Class Politcs and the Restructuring of Urban Space in India”
Leela Fernandes, Political Science and Women's Studies, Rutgers University
Co-sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender, Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies, and the Beatrice Bain Research Group

October 29
“Central and South Asia: An Overview of Relations Past and Present”
K.N. Pandita, former Director of the Centre for Central Asian Studies, Kashmir University, Srinagar

November 1
“Hopes and Challenges in the Development of ECAI South Asia”
Maggie Exon, South Asia Research Unit, Curtin University, Australia
Geographic Information Science Center Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by the GIS Center and the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies

November 4
“Searching for a Historical Tradition”
Romila Thapar, Professor Emeritus of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Co-sponsored by the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies

November 6
“History and Contemporary Politics in India”
Romila Thapar, Professor Emeritus of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Co-sponsored by the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
Professor Thapar’s talks are available as a webcast at: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events/details.html?event_id=35

November 14
Center for South Asia Studies Annual Reception

November 15
Screening of the film “Dhyaas Parva (An Era of Yearning)”
The event was introduced by the Consul General, Indian Consulate (SF, CA) and followed by a Q&A session with Director Amol Palekar

November 18
“Interlude: A writer and a City”
Amit Chaudhuri, Author, Musician and Faculty, Writing Division, School of the Arts, Columbia University
Cosponsored by the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies and the Department of English

November 19
“A Family Love Story: Reading Dilwale Dulhania LeJayenge”
Monika Mehta, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Departments of Film Studies and Comparative Literature
Co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Film Studies, and the South Asia Film Working Group

November 21
“America's New Alliance with Pakistan: Avoiding the Traps of the Past”
Husain Haqqani, Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

December 6
Screening of the film “The Men in the Tree” and discussion with the Director Lalit Vachani
Co-sponsored by EKTA, the Department of Cultural & Social Anthropology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, the Coalition Against Communalism, and Friends of South Asia

January 28
“Poet of the Bazaars: Nazir Akbarabadi, 1735-1830”
Aditya Behl, University of Pennsylvania
Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology

January 30
“The ‘Mira Trope’ in Mainstream Cinema: Three Examples from Notable Films”
Philip Lutgendorf, University of Iowa
Co-sponsored by the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies

February 5
“Ecology and Equity: Rethinking Environmental Politics in India”
Amita Baviskar, Associate Professor of Sociology, Delhi University
Sponsored by the Energy Resources Group, UC Berkeley

February 14-15
18th Annual South Asia Conference

February 14
Film screening of “Mr. and Mrs. Iyer”
Discussion with Director Aparna Sen

February 20
“Modes of Selection of Heads of Religious Lineages in Modern India”
Catherine Clementin Ojha, CNRS, Paris
Co-sponsored by the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies

February 27
“Caste and Community in Pre-Modern South India”
Champakalakshmi Rangachari, Emeritus Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
Co-sponsored by the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies

March 5
“Seeing Ramkatha through Modern South Indian Plays and Short Stories”
Paula Richman, Department of Religion, Oberlin College
Co-sponsored by the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies

March 20
“Feminism in Urdu Literature”
Kishwar Naheed, Pakistani Poet
Co-sponsored by the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies

March 30
“Archeology in the Land of Buddha”
Nancy Wilkie, Carleton College
Co-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Archaeological Research Facility

April 4-5
“How Empire Mattered: Imperial Structures and Globalization in the Era of British Imperialism”
A conference in honor of historian Thomas R. Metcalf’s career at UC Berkeley
Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Townsend Center for the Humanities

April 11
“There’s no place like home: (Trans)nationalism, Diaspora, and Film”
A Symposium with Hamid Naficy
Organized by Monika Nehta and Tamao Nakahara

April 15
“Village India in Victorian Space”
Saloni Mathur, Department of Art History, UCLA
Cosponsored by the Department of Art History and the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies

May 10-11
Third Annual New Directions in South Asian Studies Conference: “Violence, Community, Nation, Empire”
Cosponsored by International and Area Studies, UC Berkeley

June 16
“India-Pakistan Relations and the Question of Kashmir”
Ram Jethmalani, former Law Minister of India and distinguished attorney

July 19 & 26
“Yoni Ki Baat” – South Asian Vagina Monologues
A theatrical production organized by South Asian Sisters

July 28 – August 1
“Religion in World History”
ORIAS Summer Institute for Middle and High School Teachers

August 1-3
Conversations Between Economists and Anthropologists: Conference in Goa
Organized by Berkeley Professors Isha Ray and Pranab Bardhan
Funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation