Second Annual Kailath Colloquia, March 14th and April 25th, 1998

Shaping the Present: Legacies of 19th Century South Asia, was two one-day workshops sponsored by grants from the Sarah Kailath Chair in India Studies and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. These workshop were divided into morning and afternoon sessions, under separate sub-headings, and had 3 presenters and a discussant in each session:

Saturday, March 14th

• Constituting Communities in 19th Century South Asia
  Vasudha Dalmia, UC Berkeley
  Greg Kozlowski, De Paul University
  Vali Nasr, University of San Diego
  Barbara Metcalf, UC Davis
  
  
• The Arts & Patronage
  Susan Bean, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
  Daniel Ehnbom, University of Virginia
  Daniel Neuman, UCLA
  Joanna Williams, UC Berkeley
  

Saturday, April 25th, 1998

• Folklore, Anthropology & the Colonial Enterprise
  Frank Korom, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe
  Velcheru Narayana Rao, University of Wisconsin
  Gloria Raheja, University of Minnesota
  Thomas Trautmann, University of Michigan
  
  
• Language, Power & 19th Century South Asia
  Michael Fisher, Oberlin Collge
  Priya Joshi, UC Berkeley
  Meenakshi Mukherjee, JNU
  Kamala Visweswaran, University of Texas
  

The second Kailath Fellow for the Spring term of the 1997-98 academic year was Ms. Kirtana Thangavelu who just received her Ph.D. from the History of Art Department, at Berkeley.  The workshop "Shaping the Present: Legacies of 19th Century South Asia" was the culmination of Kirtana's project for this past academic year.