CSAS Events in Spring 2004

January 21, 4:00 pm, 3335 Dwinelle Hall
“Unequal Citizens: A Survey-based Study of Muslim Women in India”
Ritu Menon, independent scholar
Organized by the Women's Studies Department Colloquium Series
Co-sponsored by CSAS

February 9, 5:00 pm, 112 Wurster
City Lecture I
"Spectres of Superurbanization: Marx and the Holy Ghost"
Mike Davis is the author of several influential books, including City of Quartz. He teaches history and writing at U.C. Irvine

February 10, 4:00 pm, History Department Conference Room, Dwinelle 3335
South Asia History Search Candidate Lecture by Rochona Majumdar
Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Collegiate Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
"Looking for Brides and Grooms: Ghataks, Matrimonials and the Marriage Market in Colonial Calcutta, 1875- 1940"

February 12
SALRC South Asian Language Pedagogy Workshop

February 13 -14, International House
19th Annual South Asia Conference at UC Berkeley
Please join us for two days of panels and special events

February 18, 4:00 pm, 159 Mulford
India and Pakistan: Prospects for Peace in the 21st Century, Lecture I
"India, Pakistan, and Kashmir in the 21st Century"
Dr. Stephen P. Cohen, Brookings Institution
Co-Sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Northern California

Monday, February 23, 4:00 pm, 88 Dwinelle
"The 'Godless' Freud and his Indian Friends: Religion, Selfhood and Psychoanalysis in late Colonial India"
Lecture by South Asia History Search Candidate Shruti Kapila, Oxford University

March 1, 5:00 pm, 112 Wurster
City Lecture II
"The Gentrified Future: New Globalism, New Urbanism"
Neil Smith is Director of the Center for Place Culture and Politics and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

Tuesday, March 2, 4:00 pm, History Department Conference Room, 3335 Dwinelle
"The Political Economy of Nationhood: Swadeshi and Swaraj in late Colonial India"
Lecture by South Asia History Search Candidate Manu Goswami, New York University

March 8, 4:00 pm, 159 Mulford
India and Pakistan: Prospects for Peace in the 21st Century, Lecture II
"Nuclear Dangers in South Asia"
Dr. George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Co-Sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Northern California

March 9, 3:30 pm, 30 Dwinelle
Graduate student seminar with Rustom Bharucha
Meeting in Prof. Sudipto Chatterjee's graduate seminar "Postcolonial Performance"
Contact Professor Chatterjee to reserve a spot

March 10, 4:00 pm, Geballe Room, Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall
"Under the Sign of Asia: The Cultural Affinities and Political Differences of Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin"
Rustom Bharucha, an independent writer, cultural critic, and director
Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies and
The Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies

March 12 – 21
EKTA South Asia Film Festival
Mission Cultural Center
2868 Mission Street
Co-Sponsored by CSAS

March 26 – 28
EKTA South Asia Film Festival
India Community Center
555 Los Coches Street
Milpitas
Co-Sponsored by CSAS

March 27, 3:00 pm, Dwinelle 155
Ambassador Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
"Nuclear Proliferation and the State of Affairs in Pakistan Today"

March 31, 4:00 pm, 159 Mulford
India and Pakistan: Prospects for Peace in the 21st Century, Lecture III
"Was the Kargil War India and Pakistan’s Cuban Missile Crisis?"
Professor Peter Lavoy, Center for Contemporary Conflict, Naval Postgraduate School
Co-Sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Northern California

April 5, 5:00 pm, 112 Wurster
City Lecture III
"On Chinese Cities"
Ackbar Abbas is professor of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong.

April 7, 4:00 - 6:00 pm, CSAS, 10 Stephens Hall
"Refiguring the Folk: Contemporary Mithila Painting from India"
Art Exhibit Opening

April 15, 5:00 pm, SSEAS Library/Seminar Room, Dwinelle 341
"Indian Narrative Strategies: Past and Present"
A Seminar and Discussion with Sonjoy Dutta-Roy
Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley Department of English, and Professor of English, University of Allahabad

April 19, 6:00 pm, Dwinelle 370 - with reception following
"Tagore and the Ideals of Love"
Sudipta Kaviraj, Reader of Politics, SOAS, University of London

April 21, 4:00 pm, 159 Mulford
India and Pakistan: Prospects for Peace in the 21st Century, Lecture IV
"Nuclear Stability in South Asia"
Brig. Gen. (ret.) Feroz Hassan Khan, Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School
Co-Sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Northern California

April 26, 4:00 pm, Geballe Room, Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall
The Politics of Community: Some Notes from India
A lecture by Gyan Pandey
Professor and Chair, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
A dinner reception will follow the lecture

April 27, 10:00-11:30 am, Geballe Room, Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall
A discussion on "Rethinking Subaltern Studies" with Gyan Pandey

April 29, 5:00 pm, CSAS, 10 Stephens Hall
A poetry reading by Sonjoy Dutta-Roy

April 29-30, Dinner Board Room of the Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, 2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley
"The Imagined Worlds of Martyrdom"

May 3, 5:00 pm, 112 Wurster
City Lecture IV
"Urban Conversions: Reworlding African Cities"
Abdoumaliq Simone is at the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School University, New York, and the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg.

May 3, 5:00 pm, Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)
“Subaltern, Popular, Organic Intellectual”
Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University
This and following event organized by the Department of English, the Department of South and Southeast Asia Studies, and the Interdisciplinary Marxism Working Group

May 4, 2:00 pm, English Dept. Lounge (330 Wheeler Hall)
A colloquium with Professor Spivak on her new book, Death of a Discipline

May 4, 5:00 pm, SSEAS Library/Seminar Room, Dwinelle 341
"Secularism, Gender Identity and Politics: the Indian Women's Movement Revisited"
Flavia Agnes, noted Mumbai-based feminist legal scholar and activist
A digital recording of the lecture can be heard here: http://math.uh.edu/~chakri/flavia.html