Fw: H-ASIA: CONF India's World Conference May 10-11, New York City

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Subject: H-ASIA: CONF India's World Conference May 10-11, New York City

> H-ASIA
> March 30, 2011
>
> Announcement - India's World Conference, New York City, May 10-11, 2011
>
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> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> India's World Conference May 10-11, NYC
>
> Location: New York, United States
> Conference Date: 2011-05-10
> Date Submitted: 2011-03-22
> Announcement ID: 184059
>
> 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/cps/indias-world/program/
> 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) Aromar Revi, Indian Institute of Human Settlements
> and TARU (on India's Gray Educational Markets)
> Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Tata Institute (on Tensions Between Research,
> Graduate Training, and Undergraduate Teaching in the Natural and Physical
> Sciences) 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 cps@newschool.edu
>
> 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.
>
>
> Roberta Sutton
> The Center for Public Scholarship
> Email: cps@newschool.edu
> Visit the website at http://www.newschool.edu/cps/indias-world/program/
>
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