News: Forging New Academic Links between Australia and India
The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and UTS will establish the Rajiv Gandhi Visiting Chair of Contemporary Indian Studies, ICCR’s first chair in Australia. Read more.
Events:
2 August 2011
Professor David Hardiman (University of Warwick):
‘On writing a global history of nonviolent resistance’
Tuesday, 2 August
12:30 – 2:00 PM
UTS Building 10 (235 Jones St), Level 14, Room 201
RSVP is essential: Cornelia.Betzler@uts.edu.au
15/16 August 2011
Conference
Other Cosmopolitanisms
Registration is free: ccs@uts.edu.au
Conveners:
Devleena Ghosh, Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network: devleena.ghosh@uts.edu.au
James Goodman, Cosmopolitan Civil societies Research Centre: james.goodman@uts.edu.au
Please click here for more information.
16 August
Public Lecture
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Misunderstanding and Cosmopolitanism
Can unintended or strategic misunderstanding enable cosmopolitan practices? This lecture will speculate on this question using some examples from colonial India.
5.30 for 6.00 PM (join us for drinks and finger food from 5.30 PM as well as after the lecture)
UTS Building 10, 235 Jones St, Level 7, Aerial Function Centre, Harris Room
RSVP is essential: Cornelia.Betzler@uts.edu.au