Social Sciences
India's World Conference May 10-11 NYC
The Center for Public Scholarship at The New School presents the 24th Social Research conference, INDIA'S WORLD May 10-11, 2011 John Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, NYC Program: www.newschool.edu/india Join us as speakers discuss key issues of contemporary Indian life to connect the dots between government, economy, policy, and culture in India and in India's world today. The mission of the conference is to engage both experts and the public in discussions that will deepen our understandings of the ways in which the country and people of India are influenced by the world and the world, by India. Keynote on May 10, 6:00 p.m.: Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and Sea of Poppies, among others. May 11 sessions will feature: Ajit Balakrishnan, Rediff.com (on Internal and Global Dimensions of India's IT Revolution) Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University (on Crisis in the Classics) Lawrence Cohen, UC Berkeley (on Different Kinds of Waiting: The Verdict of Surgery in Contemporary India) Ranjani Mazumdar, Jawaharlal Nehru University (on Surveillance, Terrorism and Cinema of the Contemporary) Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago Divinity School (on Puritanism, Censorship and Self Censorship in Colonial and Post Colonial Hinduism) Mukulika Banerjee, London School of Economics (on Elections as Communitas) Gopal Guru, Jawaharlal Nehru University (on Mobile Dalit in Incredible India: The Limits of Liberalism) Suvir Kaul, University of Pennsylvania (on The Crisis in Kashmir With Regard to Partition, Sovereignty, and National Security in India) *Open to the public *Free for students *$15 for non-students *RSVP now to
[email protected] Dr. Arien Mack directs the conference series and organized this conference in collaboration with Dr. Arjun Appadurai the India China Institute. Please share this announcement with any friends or colleagues who might be interested in attending.
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