Thursday, September 13, 2007
"Sumer to Meluha: Maritime activity on the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf in the third millenium BC"

12 Noon - 2 PM, Williams 816

Gregory Possehl, University of Pennsylvania
Part of this year's Occasional Series entitled "Publics Beyond Print: Technologies of Circulation in South Asia" Co-sponsored by the Department of South Asia Studies, The Annenberg School's Center for Global Communication Studies, The South Asia Center, The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, The Center for the Advanced Study of India, and The Department of Anthropology

Thursday, September 20, 2007
"When is a Rose Apple not a Rose?"

12 Noon - 2 PM,Van Pelt Library, Class of 1955 conference room, 2nd floor, room # 241
Michael Meister, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, October 4, 2007
Democracy in India and Beyond
Panel Discussion on Partha Chatterjee’s Politics of the Governed with
Ritty Lukose (Graduate School of Education), Rogers Smith (Political Science Department), Greg Urban (Department of Anthropology), and Suvir Kaul (Department of English)
10 AM - 11:30 AM, Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk

Chandra Bhan Prasad,
"Indian Democracy: Exploding assumptions About Caste"
w/ Partha Chatterjee as discussant
12 - 1:30 PM, Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk
Cosponsored by Department of South Asia Studies, the Global Citizenship Group, and the Center for the Advanced Study of India

Thursday, October 11, 2007
"The Current Situation in Bangladesh"
12 Noon - 2 PM, Williams 816

Jon Cebra, former Director, American Center, Dhaka and Penn graduate

Thursday, October 18, 2007
"The Political Logics of Comparison: Benoy Sarkar's Global Sociology"
12 Noon - 2 PM, South Asia Reading Room, Room 551, Van Pelt Library

Manu Goswami, New York University

Thursday, October 25, 2007
"Poverty Reduction: Relevance of Vietnamese Experience for Bangladesh"
12 Noon - 1:30 PM, Williams 816

Munim Kumar Barai, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
&
Fulbright Scholar of the University of Pennsylvania's Program in International Relations

NOVEMBER 2007

Thursday, November 1, 2007
"Defining the Space between a Classical Tamil Poet-Saint and her Biographer "

12 Noon - 1:30PM,Williams Hall 816

Karen Pechilis, Professor of Religious Studies, Drew University

Thursday, November 8, 2007 : CANCELLED due to illness
"Reflections on 'Islam in South Asia Practice': Is there a story to tell?"

12 Noon - 2 PM, South Asia Reading Room, Room 551, Van Pelt Library

Barbara Metcalf, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Cosponsored by the Center for the Advanced Study of India

Thursday, November 15, 2007
"The Making of Western Indology: Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company"

12 Noon - 2 PM,Williams Hall 816

Rosane Rocher & Ludo Rocher

Thursday, November 29, 2007
"Spectral Visualities in Karachi's Public Sphere"

12 Noon - 2 PM, Class of '55 room in Van Pelt Library
Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University
Part of this year's Occasional Series entitled "Publics Beyond Print: Technologies of Circulation in South Asia" Co-sponsored by the Department of South Asia Studies, The Annenberg School's Center for Global Communication Studies, The South Asia Center, The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly , The Center for the Advanced Study of India, and The Department of Anthropology

DECEMBER 2007
Thursday, December 6, 2007
"A Record of All Languages: Speakers, Scribes and the making of the Linguistic Survey of Colonial India"

12 Noon - 2 PM, South Asia Reading Room, Room 551, Van Pelt Library

Shahid Amin, University of Delhi
Part of this year's Occasional Series entitled "Publics Beyond Print: Technologies of Circulation in South Asia" Co-sponsored by the Department of South Asia Studies, The Annenberg School's Center for Global Communication Studies, The South Asia Center, The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly , The Center for the Advanced Study of India, and The Department of Anthropology

JANUARY 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
"Wheels of Change: Religion, Politics and Vehicle Decoration in Pakistan"

12 Noon - 2 PM, Class of '55 room in Van Pelt Library
Jamal Elias, University of Pennsylvania
Part of this year's Occasional Series entitled "Publics Beyond Print: Technologies of Circulation in South Asia" Co-sponsored by the Department of South Asia Studies, The Annenberg School's Center for Global Communication Studies, The South Asia Center, The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, The Center for the Advanced Study of India, and The Department of Anthropology

Thursday, January 24, 2008
"Migration and 'Social' Remittance in India"
12 Noon - 2 PM, South Asia Reading Room, Room 551, Van Pelt Library
Devesh Kapur, Center for the Advanced Study of India
Part of this year's Occasional Series entitled "Publics Beyond Print: Technologies of Circulation in South Asia" Co-sponsored by the Department of South Asia Studies, The Annenberg School's Center for Global Communication Studies, The South Asia Center, The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, The Center for the Advanced Study of India, and The Department of Anthropology

FEBRUARY 2008

Thursday, February 7, 2008
"On and Off the Proscenium: Notes on Mourning "
12 Noon - 2 PM, Williams 816
Rimli Bhattacharya , Department of English, University of Delhi

Thursday, February 14, 2008
"The Ethical Public: Bimoral Circulation in Contemporary India"

12 Noon - 2 PM, South Asia Reading Room, Room 551, Van Pelt Library
Lawrence Cohen, University of California, Berkeley
Part of this year's Occasional Series entitled "Publics Beyond Print: Technologies of Circulation in South Asia" Co-sponsored by the Department of South Asia Studies, The Annenberg School's Center for Global Communication Studies, The South Asia Center, The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly , The Center for the Advanced Study of India, and The Department of Anthropology


Thursday, February 21, 2008
"Savage Gardens: The mythmaking potential of Sir Patrick Geddes"

12 Noon - 2 PM, Williams 816
Naveeda Khan, Johns Hopkins University
Part of this year's Occasional Series entitled "Publics Beyond Print: Technologies of Circulation in South Asia" Co-sponsored by the Department of South Asia Studies, The Annenberg School's Center for Global Communication Studies, The South Asia Center, The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, The Center for the Advanced Study of India, and The Department of Anthropology

Thursday, February 28, 2008
"The public of the bandh: Protest, performance and national identity in Nepal"

12 Noon - 2 PM, Class of '55 room in Van Pelt Library
Genevieve Lakier, Harvard University
Part of this year's Occasional Series entitled "Publics Beyond Print: Technologies of Circulation in South Asia" Co-sponsored by the Department of South Asia Studies, The Annenberg School's Center for Global Communication Studies, The South Asia Center, The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, The Center for the Advanced Study of India, and The Department of Anthropology

MARCH 2008
Thursday, March 6, 2008
"Nature, Nationalism and Public Intellectualism in India"

12 Noon - 2 PM, Center for the Advanced Study of India, 3600 Market Street, Suite 560
K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University


Thursday, March 13, 2008
SPRING BREAK: no colloquium


Thursday, March 20, 2008
"Genealogies of Pashto Oral Publication: Poetics of Class, Identity, and Patriarchal Hegemony in 1950s Afghanistan"

12 Noon - 2 PM, Williams 816
James Caron, Department of South Asia Studies
Part of this year's Occasional Series entitled "Publics Beyond Print: Technologies of Circulation in South Asia" Co-sponsored by the Department of South Asia Studies, The Annenberg School's Center for Global Communication Studies, The South Asia Center, The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, The Center for the Advanced Study of India, and The Department of Anthropology

Thursday, March 27, 2008
Ernest Bender Lecture series presents
5 PM, Venue: Myerson Conference Room 223, 2nd floor, Van Pelt Libraryl
Paul Dundas, Edinburgh University
hosted by Department of South Asia Studies & cosponsored by South Asia Center
Wine and Cheese reception to follow

APRIL 2008
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Workers and Dependents: Categorizing women's labor in the first two decades of post-colonial India

12 Noon - 2 PM, Williams 816
Catherine Warner, South Asia Studies

Thursday, April 17, 2008
"Print and pleasure in the North Indian public space"

12 Noon - 2 PM, Venue: Williams 816
Francesca Orsini, The School of Oriental and Asian Studies

Part of this year's Occasional Series entitled "Publics Beyond Print: Technologies of Circulation in South Asia" Co-sponsored by the Department of South Asia Studies, The Annenberg School's Center for Global Communication Studies, The South Asia Center, The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly , The Center for the Advanced Study of India, and The Department of Anthropology

Thursday, April 24, 2008
Recognizing Historical Traditions in Early India

5 PM , Venue: Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall
Romila Thapar, Jawaharlal University

2007

12 NOON TO 1:30PM ON THURSDAY, APR 5, 2007 IN WILLIAMS HALL, ROOM 816

"RAJUL SATI'S VEIL: JAIN NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN SATI DISCOURSE AND THE IDEOLOGY OF RENUNCIATION."

M. Whitney Kelting, Northeastern University

Abstract: Jain women negotiate between the ideologies of wife-hood and renunciation, which ask a woman to be devoted to her husband while striving for detached liberation. By renouncing at the hand of her husband, the Jina Neminath, the Jain sati Rajul is simultaneously a devoted wife and a nun, presenting Jains with a possible resolution through sati discourse. Devotional tellings of the story of Nemi and Rajul elaborate on Rajul's love of Nemi and on the iconic representations of her auspicious wifehood while Jain visual and ritual cultures use western Indian sati discourse to represent Rajul as an eternally auspicious wife.