Event
Please join us for a Work-in-Progress Seminar with South Asia Center Visiting Fellow Anastasia Piliavsky (University of Cambridge). Those interested in attending may request a copy of the Prologue, Introduction, and Conclusion to her forthcoming book by emailing Elliot Montpellier emontp@sas.upenn.edu or Lisa Mitchell lmitch@sas.upenn.edu.
Anastasia Piliavsky teaches Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, where she is the recipient of a Newton-Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. The editor of Patronage as Politics in South Asia(Cambridge University Press 2014), her book Stray People: Hierarchy as Hope in a Society of Thieves is under contract with Stanford University Press in the series South Asia in Motion, forthcoming in 2019. Her research for the past dozen years has focused on thieves, policemen, gossip and secrecy (among other things) in the Indian province of Rajasthan, and on political life in India more generally, including questions of why the country is at once so democratically animated and so utterly 'corrupt' and 'criminalized.' She was a Co-investigator of 'Democracy and the criminalizationof politics in South Asia' funded by the European Research Council and the Economic and Social and Research Council. She received her DPhil in Social Anthropology from Oxford University in 2011.
Location: Williams Hall Room 826
Date: Thursday, April 12
Time: 4:30PM