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Consortium for the Study of the Asias
asias@umn.edu
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Department Name

Community Outreach

South Asia Seminar Series

The South Asian Seminar began in 2005 as an intellectual collective group funded by the Institute for Global Studies. The South Asian Seminar Series brings scholars, writers, and filmmakers from the U of M, local colleges and universities as well as national and international speakers to share their ideas and scholarship with the University community and beyond.

Fall 2010 Schedule

October 6

Remembering the Crooked Line: Visualizing Ethnic Fissures and Partitions through Memory Sculptures of the Gendered Body and Childhood Games by Pritika Chowdhry, Macalester College

October 20

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Urban Poor in ‘World Class’ Delhi by Lalit Batra, Geography, U of M

November 3

Changing Perceptions of Muslim and Hindu Relations in Bundelkhand Under Mughal Rule by Brendan LaRoque, Carlton College

November 11

What's Happening to Indian Democracy During These Expansionary Times? Leo Saldanha and Bhargavi Rao of the Environmental Support Group

4:30 - 6:00pm Room 1114 Social Sciences Building

November 17

The Joys of Delhi': Female Urbanity in Late Eighteenth- / Early Nineteenth-Century Urdu Poetry by Ruth Vanita, University of Montana

3:30 - 5:00 609 Social Sciences Building

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Richa Nagar. Professor Richa Nagar makes a comment. Shinparam performing at opening night of Still Present Pasts.Shinparam performing at opening night of Still Present Pasts. Visitor listens to oral history while viewing an archival photo.Visitor listens to oral history while viewing an archival photo.