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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 Fall programming:
September 19 - Guest lecture -
Bonnie
Babies, Modern Mothers and Provident Politicians: Baby Weeks in Madras,
Barbara Ramusack, Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History,
University of Cincinnati. 5:30 pm at India Studies House, 825 East 8th
Street.
October 17 – Guest lecture,
Yoga
Today: Reflections on Sexuality and the Politics of Knowledge,
Joseph Alter,
Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of
Pittsburgh. 5:30 pm at India Studies House, 825 East 8th Street.
October 24 –
The
Hrishikesh and Sailabala Bhattacharya Memorial Lecture, The
Beauty of Compromise: Political Reconciliation in South Asia,
Ramachandra Guha, environmental author, historian and biographer,
Bangalore, India. Time and venue to be announced.
November 7 – Guest lecture, The Art of Dress in
Modern India, Pravina Shukla,
Associate Professor of Folklore, Indiana University. 5:30 pm at India
Studies House, 825 East 8th Street.
November 14
– Guest lecture, Migration, Minorities, and Diaspora Politics: The Sociolinguistic
Story of Kashmiri, Rakesh Bhatt, Associate Professor of Linguistics and
Director of the Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 5:30 pm at India Studies House, 825 East 8th Street.
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