CSAS Events in Summer - Fall 2006

Summer 2006

April 5 - July 25
10 Stephens Hall
Exhibition: "Taxi-Wallahs of Berkeley: Photographs and Narratives by Aditya Dhawan"

Fall 2006

September 7
5 pm
Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall
Lecture: "At Empire's End: The Nizam and Hyderabad in the 18th Century"
Munis Faruqui, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley
Cosponsored by CSAS and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies

September 10
Lecture and performance: Baul music by Sudipto Chatterjee

September 1 - November 1
"Rajasthan: A Portrait of a Region"
Raphael Shevelev, Photographer
10 Stephens Hall

September 15
Berkeley Art Museum Theater
Colloquium: Democratic India: Social and Political Challenges in the 21st Century
Ramachandra Guha, Author and Columnist
Yogendra Yadav, Director, Lokniti-Institute for Comparative Democracy, Delhi
Cosponsored by the Australian National University.

September 16
Interdisciplinary Art Panel: Edge of Desire
3-5 pm, Theater, Berkeley Art Museum
Cosponsored by Consortium for the Arts, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities and Asia Society Northern California

September 17
"Folk and Fine Arts Flux in India Today"
Joanna Williams, Professor of Art Hisotry, University of California, Berkeley
3:00 pm, Theater, Berkeley Art Museum
Cosponsored by the Consortium for the Arts, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities and Asia Society Northern California

September 22-23
"Asia by Means of Performance: an Interdisciplinary Symposium on Asian Performance"
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities

October 2
"Neoliberal Destructions"
P. Sainath, Award-winning journalist and political commentator
Alexander Cockburn, Journalist, Counterpunch and the Nation
6:00 pm, 370 Dwinelle

October 5
CSAS Annual Reception
5-7pm, Stephens Hall Terrace

October 6
"China, India, Russia: R&D"
Organized by the Haas School of Business
8:30am-7:00pm
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/HaasGlobal/emergingmarketsconference.html

October 11
"Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music"
Film screening and talk by Documentary Filmmaker Vivek Bald
6pm, 141 McCone Hall
http://www.mutinysounds.com/film/

October 26
"India and China: The Asian Two"
Jaswant Singh
Leader of the Opposition, Rajya Sabha (Upper House of India's Parliament) and former Minister of External Affairs and of Finance
7:30pm, Great Hall, International House

November 8
"Why is the West losing the War on Terror?"
Pakistani Journalist Hamid Mir, moderated by Abraham Sofaer
The Asia Society, cosponsored by the Center for South Asia Studies
5:30 pm registration, 6:00 pm program followed by reception
$5 members; $15 non-members
500 Washington St., 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA

November 9
Ratan Thiyam of Chorus Reportory Theatre
Ratan Thiyam, Director, Chorus Repertory Theatre
Sudipto Chatterjee, Professor of Theatre and Performance, University of California, Berkeley
Time TBA, Location TBA
Cosponsored by Cal Performances

November 13
"When was India Modern? Premodern Modernities in Telugu Literature"
Dr. Velcheru Narayana Rao, visiting in support of the Telugu Studies Initiative
Krishnadevaraya Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin
12:30-2:00pm, Dwinelle 341

November 16
"Recognition and History in Malaysia's Plantations"
Andrew Willford, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies, Cornell University
Organized by the Center for Southeast Asia Studies
4pm, 223 Moses

December 7
"Science and Spirituality" (See Flyer)
Prof. Charles Townes, Dr. Mani Bhaumik, Prof. Alexander Von Rospatt
Introduction by Indian Consul General B.S. Prakash
Cosponsored by the Religion, Politics and Globalization Program
7-8:30pm, Homeroom, International House

December 8
"The Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda" (See Flyer)
Award-winning documentary with Director Shriprakash
Cosponsored by the Energy and Resources Group
4-6pm, 20 Barrows

Ongoing
Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Kroeber Hall
Exhibition: "Portraits of India: Markets, Merchants, and Artisans"

Ongoing
'Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India'
Exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum
CSAS is working with BAM and the Asia Society on a number of events surrounding this exhibit.

July 24-28
Conference: ORIAS Summer Institute: "Encountering Nature in World History"
Cosponsored by CSAS; the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; the Institute of Easy Asian Studies; the Center for Latin American Studies; the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; the Center for Southeast Asia Studies; and the Institute of Slavic Studies.