CSAS Events in Summer - Fall 2004

Summer 2004

April 7 - June 7, 10 Stephens Hall
"Refiguring the Folk: Contemporary Mithila Painting from India"
An Art Exhibit at the Center for South Asia Studies

Fall 2004

August 30, 5:00 pm, 112 Wurster
City Lecture V
"Why Are We Thinking About Cities Now?"
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, New York.

September 16, 4:30 pm, 10 Stephens Hall
Fall Recital of Classical Indian Music
Alankar, with Guest Vocalist Sanjeev Chimmalgi

September 23 - 26, A Dissertation Workshop:
The Dynamics of Contemporary Muslim Societies

September 27, 5:00 pm, 112 Wurster
City Lecture VI
"Is There a New Indian City?"
Partha Chatterjee, Director, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

September 29, 4:00 pm, Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall, Geballe Room
Lecture by Pradeep Chhibber, Chair, Political Science Department, UC Berkeley
Title TBA

September 30, 5:00-7:00 pm, Stephens Hall Terrace
CSAS Annual Reception
Enter through 10 Stephens Hall so you can see our exhibition of vintage Bollywood poster art.

October 5, 5:30 pm, Journalism School Library
“Indian Muslims: The Creation of a Minority”
MJ Akbar, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Asian Age

October 7, 4:00 pm, 20 Stephens Hall
Graduate Student Workshop
The presenter will be Shobna Nijhawan, speaking on her dissertation topic, "Public Reasoning as Moral Duty: Hindi Women's Journals and Nationalist Discourse (1910-1930)."

October 22, 1:30-3:30 pm, Pacific Film Archive Theater
Workshop with Anand Patwardhan
Take advantage of this opportunity to further engage in a discussion with Patwardhan concerning the themes of his work, and his vision for documentary film. The presentation will be complemebted by a selection of clips.

October 28, 5:00 pm, 112 Wurster
City Lecture VII
"Cities in the Information Age"
Manuel Castells is Professor Emeritus of City Planning and Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, and Research Professor of Information Society at the Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona.

November 4, 4:00 pm, 20 Stephens Hall
Graduate Student Workshop - "Given to the Goddess: Devadasis, Ethics, Kinship"
Lucinda Ramberg, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

November 8, 5:00 pm, 112 Wurster
City Lecture VIII
"Democratizing the Neoliberal City"
Teresa Caldeira is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.

November 8 - 9, 10 am- 4:00 pm, Kroeber Hall and Sproul Plaza (11/8 and 11/9, respectively)
Stone carvers from Pakistan will visit campus during their three-week stay at the Asian Art Museum, SF.
They have been brought to the U.S. by Mark Kenoyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

November 10, 4:00 pm, 341 Dwinelle Hall
Hindi and Urdu Poetry Reading/Workshop
With poets Gagan Gill (India) and Shahida Hasan (Pakistan)

November 10, 4:00 pm, 20 Stephens Hall
"Elections and Violence in Gujarat"
Lecture by P.M. Patel, Fulbright Visiting Scholar in Political Science.

November 13 - 14, Castro and Roxie Theatres, San Francisco
Second Annual SF International South Asian Film Festival
November 13, 1:00 PM Ritwik Ghatak's Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (Reason, Argument and Story) - $6 with Student ID
With introduction by UC Berkeley Film Professor Sudipto Chatterjee.
Sponsored by 3rd I and CSAS

November 17, 3:00 pm, Sultan Room, CMES
"Language, Policies and Education in Pakistan"
Tariq Rahman, Quaid-I-Azam Chair of Pakistan Studies, CSAS

Reception following at CSAS, 4:30 pm
Please Join Us in Welcoming Prof. Rahman to Berkeley!

December 2, 20 Stephens Hall
Graduate Student Workshop - Title TBA
Kavita Datla, History, UC Berkeley

December 3, 5:00 pm, 402 Barrows
"The Indian Economy and Globalization: Recent Performance and Prospects"
Kaushik Basu is a C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics at Cornell University.

December 6, 5:00 pm, 112 Wurster
City Lecture IX
"Lights, Karma, Action: Report from Bombay"
Amitava Kumar is Professor of English at Penn State University.

December 9, 4:00 pm, SSEAS Library (341 Dwinelle)
"Rethinking Indian Historiography: A Conversation with Sumit and Tanika Sarkar"
Dr. Sumit Sarkar is a former Professor of History at Delhi University, and Dr. Tanika Sarkar is Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University.