CSAS Events in Fall 2003
September 4, 5:00 pm, 10 Stephens Hall and Stephens Terrace
CSAS Annual Reception
September 16, 5:00 pm, Dwinelle 370
"Doing
Linguistics Through Philology: Reconstructing the Gandhari (Northwest
Prakrit) Language"
Richard Salomon, Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures, University
of Washington
Cosponsored by the Indo-European Language and Culture Working Group and
the Group in Buddhist Studies
September 24, 5:00 pm, Geballe Room, Stephens Hall
“Sanskrit Knowledge Systems on the Eve of
Colonialism”
Sheldon Pollock, Professor of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, University of
Chicago
September 29, 7:00 pm, 105 North Gate
Screening of Amader Kotha (Our Stories):
Shorts From Bangladesh
Co-sponsored by 3rd i
October 6, 7:00 pm, Pacific Film Archive
Screening of documentary Words on Water
with Director Sanjay Kak
Co-sponsored by the Environmental Politics Colloquium, the International
Rivers Network,
and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Program at the California Institute
of Integral Studies
October 8, 6-8:00 pm, Stephens Terrace via 10 Stephens Hall
Kabir in Song: Musical Traditions of a Great Religious
Poet of India
Featuring: folk singer Prahlad Singh Tipanya and classical singer Krishna
Kant Shukla
October 9, 6:00 pm, Dwinelle 370
Talks on Bengali Theater Part I: The Contemporary Stage
"The Predicament of Emerging Voices in Indian Bengali Theater"
Suman Mukherjee, a leading Kolkata theater
director
In discussion with Assistant Professor Sudipto Chatterjee, and interspersed
with clips of Mukherjee's work
Co-sponsored by the department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
October 16, 7:00 pm, 105 North Gate
Screening of Pather Chujaeri (The Play Is On...)
and Mat (The Vote) with director Pankaj Kumar
October 21, 4:00-6:00 pm, The Goldberg Room, UC Berkeley Law School,
Boalt Hall
Human Rights, Insurgency, and Legal Accountability
for 'The Disappeared' in Punjab (India): A Presentation and Discussion
of "Reduced to Ashes," The Final Report of the Committee for
Coordination on Disappearances in Punjab (CCDP)
Co-sponsored by Human Rights Center and International Human Rights Law
Clinic
October 20-24
South Asian
Awareness Weak
UC Berkeley Campus
October 29, 5:00 pm, SSEAS Seminar Room, Dwinelle 341
Talks on Bengali Theater Part II: The 19th Century
"Mothers of Invention: Prostitute Actresses in 19th Century Bengali
Theater"
Sudipto
Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Department of Theater, Dance and
Performance Studies, UC Berkeley
Co-sponsored by the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
November 1, the Castro Theatre; November 2, the Roxie Theatre
San Francisco
International South Asian Film Festival
Sponsored by 3rd i, Co-sponsored
by CSAS
November 4, 7:00 pm, 105 Northgate
Screening of Unlimited Girls with
Director Paromita Vohra
Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center
November 12, 6:00 pm, Dwinelle 370, Appetizers will be served at 5:30
pm
"Comings and Goings: From Michael Madhusudan
Datta to the Diaspora of Today"
Clinton Seely,
Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
December 4, 5:00 pm, SSEAS Seminar Room, Dwinelle 341
Title: TBA
Yigal Bronner, Professor of Asian Studies at Tel-Aviv University
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