WORKSHOP
14 May 2009
Research and Communities Workshop:
Strategies for research for trade, industry & social justice in Asia, Australasia and the Pacific
For more information, please click here.
With visiting researcher Kanchi Kohli, Kalpavriksh Environment Action Group, Delhi, India.
August 20
Postgraduate Workshop with Dipesh Chakrabarty
SEMINAR SERIES
14th August
Sumant Badami, Macquarie University: The Agency of Death: Health and Spirituality for the Paniya of Wayanad, a Marginalised Tribal Community in Southern India
Please read here for Sumant’s abstract and biography.
28 May 2009
Anjali Roy, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, Planet Bollywood
8 May
Dr. Sheleyah Courtney, Anthropology, University of Sydney, From Plundering the Golden Temple to remittances for Rama: Princes, Paupers, Politics, and Temple and Nation Building in Varanasi
3 April 2009
Stephanie Jones, University of Southampton, UK, Indian Ocean belongers, 1668-1008
1 April 2009
Souchou Yao, University of Technology, Sydney , Traveling Ethnography: finding the truth in brief encounters
10 March
Meg Samuelson, Stellenbosch University, SA, Protean Constructions of Self and Nation: the Sea as Archive and Trope in Post-Apartheid South African Literature and Culture
CONFERENCE
March 11-13
Intercolonial Networks; Oceanic Circulations: Re-thinking the Indian Ocean
Please click here for the conference programme
Read the conference abstracts here.
Read the conference report here.
PUBLIC LECTURE
August 18
Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago/ANU
“Once Colonial, Now Global: India’s Engagement with the West”
Biographical Information
Professor Chakrabarty is a Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College at the University of Chicago. His research interests are in modern South Asian history and historiography, in postcolonial theory and its impact on history-writing, and in comparative studies of questions and politics of modernity.
Lecture Abstract
The lecture will discuss the various ways in which the West has been imagined and engaged in Indian discussions about civilization and modernity, and show how globalization is changing the world that the imperial European and the colonized Indian once built together.
FILM SCREENING
March 10
NAATA (The Bond), Anjali Monteiro & K.P. Jayasankar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India, 45 min
