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Each semester, the Indiana University India Studies
Program sponsors a series of guest lectures and other events designed to
bring the leading figures of the politics, arts, and cultures of India
and South Asia to the Bloomington campus. Our events are open to
students, faculty, and the community at large and are presented free of
charge.
The full lineup of spring programming:
February 1 – Guest lecture, Language Politics in
Pre-modern Western India c.1300-1800, Sumit Guha, Professor of History,
Rutgers University. 5:30 pm at India Studies House, 825 East 8th Street.
February 8 – Guest lecture, Rebuilding Teacher Education in
Afghanistan: USAID’s Higher Education Project, Terrence Mason, Associate Dean of
Faculties, Associate Professor of English, and Director, Center for Social Studies
and International Education, Indiana University Bloomington. 5:30 pm at India
Studies House, 825 East 8th Street.
February 22 – Guest lecture, Afghanistan's Inept Suicide Attackers:
Explaining their Incompetence, Christine Fair, Senior
Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Co-sponsored by the Center
on American and Global Security. 5:30 pm at India Studies House, 825 East 8th Street.
March 17 – Guest lecture, A Tale of Two Talks: Pleasures and Perils
of Reading India's Epics of Antiquity in Modernity, Robert Goldman, Professor of Sanskrit,
Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley. 5:30 pm
at India Studies House, 825 East 8th Street.
March 28 – Guest lecture, (Re)assessing
Kutiyattam, Sanskrit Theatre of India, Farley Richmond, Professor of Theatre and Film
Studies and Director of the Center for Asian Studies, University of Georgia. 5:30 pm at India
Studies House, 825 East 8th Street.
April 11 – Guest lecture, Why Study Madrassahs? Islamic Seminaries in South Asia,
Ali Riaz, Associate Professor of Politics and Government, Illinois State University. 5:30 pm at India
Studies House, 825 East 8th Street.
April 15 – The Shiva and Ram Avtar Tiwari Memorial Lecture, Forests and the Environmental History of Modern India,
Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Professor of Anthropology, Yale University. 5:30 pm at India Studies House,
825 East 8th Street.
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