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Interested audience members without a PennCard should email their names to harnwell@pobox.upenn.edu before noon on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 to secure admission to the building. Please place "sitar class recital" in the subject header. Co-sponsored by Department of South Asia Studies TUESDAY, NOV 28, 2006 9/1101: SEPTEMBER 11 Venue: 111 Annenberg School, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Screenings: Tuesdays 6pm - 9pm Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitai, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Shohei Imamura, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Sean Penn, Danis Tanovic, 2002, 134 min TUESDAY, NOV 21, 2006 MONSOON WEDDING Venue: 111 Annenberg School, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Screenings: Tuesdays 6pm – 9pm Mira Nair, 2001, 114 min TUESDAY, NOV 14, 2006 BOMBAY BOYS Venue: 111 Annenberg School, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Screenings: Tuesdays 6pm – 9pm Kaizad Gustad, 1998, 105 min TUESDAY, NOV 7, 2006 FIRE Venue: 111 Annenberg School, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Screenings: Tuesdays 6pm – 9pm Deepa Mehta, 1996, 104 min TUESDAY, OCT 31, 2006 DESPERATELY SEEKING HELEN Venue: 111 Annenberg School, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Screenings: Tuesdays 6pm – 9pm Eisha Marjara, 1988, 81 min MISS INDIA GEORGIA Venue: 111 Annenberg School, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Screenings: Tuesdays 6pm – 9pm Daniel Friedman & Sharon Grimberg, 1997, 56 min TUESDAY, OCT 24, 2006 MOTHER COMES HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Venue: 111 Annenberg School, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Screenings: Tuesdays 6pm – 9pm Nilita Vachani, 1996, 109 min NALINI BY DAY, NANCY BY NIGHT Venue: 111 Annenberg School, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Screenings: Tuesdays 6pm – 9pm Sonali Gulati, 2005, 27 min TUESDAY, OCT 17, 2006 BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM Venue: 111 Annenberg School, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Screenings: Tuesdays 6pm – 9pm Gurinder Chadha, 2003, 112 min TUESDAY, OCT 10, 2006 MY SON THE FANATIC Venue: 111 Annenberg School, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Screenings: Tuesdays 6pm – 9pm Udayan Prasad, 1997, 88 min TUESDAY, OCT 3, 2006 KHUSH Venue: 111 Annenberg School, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Screenings: Tuesdays 6pm – 9pm Pratibha Parmar, 1991, 24 min SUMMER IN MY VEINS Venue: 111 Annenberg School, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Screenings: Tuesdays 6pm – 9pm Nish Saran 2000, 41 minutes This film series is sponsored by the South Asia Center and Department of South Asia Studies, and co-sponsored by Cinema Studies, at the University of Pennsylvania. Contact haimanti@sas.upenn.edu or majithia@sas.upenn.edu for more information. All films are also screenings for the courses, SAST 306 and CINE 310. For information about the courses and films, see www.southasia.upenn.edu. All films are a part of the South Asia Collection and are located at the Van Pelt Library. DECEMBER 2006 WEDNESDAY, DEC 6, 2006 SOUTH ASIAN MUSIC PERFORMANCE End of semester sitar and tabla class performance Venue: Harnwell House Rooftop Lounge Time: 6am – 8:30pm Cosponsored by Department of South Asia Studies FRIDAY, DEC 1, 2006 GLOBAL SPREAD OF ENGLISH AND ITS IMPACT ON LOCAL LANGUAGES Brief presentations by: Harold Schiffman, Surendra Gambhir, Nancy Hornberger, Aloysius Ngefac, Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl, Francis Hult, Hiroko Sherry Venue: 816 Williams Hall Time: Reception: 10:30am – 11am ; Presentation & Discussion: 11am – 1:30pm Pre-registration by emailing to haimanti@sas.upenn.edu by WEDNESDAY, NOV 29th, will be appreciated. Co-sponsored by Penn Language Center NOVEMBER 2006 MONDAY, NOV 13, 2006 THE PROVOST'S GLOBAL FORUM PRESENTS: 'THE GREATEST ASIAN CENTURY' Mr. Kishore Mahbubani, Former U.N Ambassador and Author Venue: Huntsman Hall, Room G06, 38th & Walnut Streets Time: 6:30pm Registration is required. Please visit http://ia.oip.upenn.edu/globalforum.html. Seats are not guaranteed and will be available on a first come, first serve basis. Please note that the doors to the Walnut Street entrance of the Hunstman Hall will lock after 7pm. Co-sponsored by Center for East Asian Studies and the South Asia Center WEDNESDAY – THURSDAY, NOV 8 – 9, 2006 FEW DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago WEDNESDAY, NOV 8, 2006 THE MYTHOLOGY OF GENDER IN THE KAMASUTRA Lunch with undergraduate students at Carriage House: 12:30pm Venue: Logan Hall, Room 17 Time: 5:15pm THURSDAY, NOV 9, 2006 BISEXUALITY IN ANCIENT INDIAN MYTHOLOGY: A WORKSHOP Lunch with graduate students at the South Asia Colloquium at Williams 816, 36th and Spruce Sts: 12 noon Venue: Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk Time: 3pm Co-sponsored by Fund to Encourage Women (FEW) of the Trustees' Council of Penn Women, Women's Studies Program, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Center, the South Asia Center, Department of South Asia Studies and Department of Religious Studies THURSDAY, NOV 9, 2006 SITAR Allyn Miner, UPenn, Venue: Lower Merion Middle School Time: Sitar presentation to 48 sixth graders TUESDAY, NOV 7, 2006 'TRAVELING AS AN ACADEMIC' SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZED BY ORIENTAL CLUB William Cullinan, Temple university; Grant Frame, UPenn, Pardis Munechar, UPenn, Frank Hoffman,, UPenn, Venue: Penn humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk Time: 9am – 3pm Cosponsored by International Classroom at Museum of University of Pennsylvania FRIDAY-SUNDAY, NOV 3-5, 2006 WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPING STANDARDS FOR HINDI AT THE K-16 LEVEL June Philips, Weber State University: 'Foreign Language Standards: Relevant or Irrelevant for Higher Education' Venue: Crest Room, ARCH Building Time: 9:30am – 3:00pm Cosponsored by ACTFL, Penn Language Center and South Asia Center THURSDAY-SATURDAY, NOV 2- NOV 11, 2006 ISLAM AWARENESS WEEK PRESENTED BY PENN MUSLIM STUDENTS ASSOCIATION Seyyed Hossain Nasr, 'Man and Nature' Cosponsored by South Asia Center THURSDAY, NOV 2, 2006 ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE WEEK (OCT 30-NOV 6) ORGANIZED BY ASAM Kal Penn, Keynote Speaker Venue:Hall of Flags, Houston Hall Time: 7:30pm Cosponsored by South Asia Center, Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Penn Humanities Forum and Theatre Arts Program OCTOBER 2006 SATURDAY, OCT 28, 2006 HINDI-URDU WORKSHOP: 'THE POETRY OF BHAVA' Presenters from Penn & Columbia, Venue: Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk Time: 9:30am – 4:00pm Cosponsored by Department of South Asia Studies and Columbia University FRIDAY, OCT 27, 2006 SOUTH ASIA MUSIC CONCERT: MEHFIL SERIES Veena concert: Sri Ayyagari Syamasundaram, with mrdangam accompaniment , Venue: Harnwell House Rooftop Lounge Time: 8:00pm Cosponsored by Department of South Asia Studies FRIDAY, OCT 20, 2006 ANNUAL RECEPTION OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM Venue: Chinese Rotunda, Univ. of Pennsylvania Museum Time: 5:00 – 7:00pm Cosponsored by South Asia Center TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY, OCT 17-18, 2006 TWO LECTURES ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PAKISTAN TUESDAY, OCT 17, 2006 "RECENT EXCAVATIONS AT HARAPPAN SITES IN THE GOMAL VALLEY, NORTHWEST FRONTIER PROVINCE, PAKISTAN" Dr. Ihsan Ali, Vice Chancellor, Hazara University, Pakistan, Venue: Classroom 2 in the Penn Museum Time: 3:30 pm And, WEDNESDAY, OCT 18, 2006 "DISTRIBUTION AND NATURE OF THE GANDHARAN GRAVE CULTURE IN PAKISTAN" Dr. Muhammad Zahir, Government College, Peshawar, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan Venue: Classroom 329 in the Penn Museum Time: 12 Noon Co-sponsored by the Penn Museum, the Department of Anthropology, the South Asia Center, and the Center for Ancient Studies. TUESDAY, OCT 10, 2006 THE HOWARD P. AND JUDITH R. BERKOWITZ LECTURE Arjun Appadurai, John Dewey Professor in the Social Sciences Senior Advisor for Global Initiatives, The New School, Universities as Actors in Global Civil Society Venue: Golkin Room, Houston Hall Time: 8:30am – 3:00pm Co-sponsored by the Penn Graduate School of Education, the Department of Anthropology, the Office of International Programs, the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, the South Asia Center, and Urban Studies Program SATURDAY, OCT 7, 2006 SAST FALL LANGUAGE WORKSHOP: CREATING LANGUAGE LESSONS WITH AUTHENTIC MATERIALS Venue: Crest Room, ARCH Building Time: 8:30am – 3:00pm Co-sponsored: Penn Language Center FRIDAY, OCT 6, 2006 "THE CHALLENGES OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY: QUESTIONS FROM INDIA." Ram Guha, historian and biographer Venue: Center for Advanced Study of India (CASI), 3600 Market St., Suite 560. Time: 11:30am – 1:00pm Co-sponsored by CASI, Anthropology Department and South Asia Center SEPTEMBER 2006 FRIDAY, SEP 29, 2006 "KINGS, PALACES, AND SAGES: NEW EVIDENCE FOR EARLY INDIAN ARCHITECTURE" Michael Meister, University of Pennsylvania Venue: Jaffe 201 Time: 3:30pm Co-sponsored: presents South Asia Center FRIDAY, SEP 29, 2006 'THE PERSISTENCE OF THE MYTHOLOGICAL IN INDIAN POPULAR CINEMA' Philip Lutgendorf, University of Iowa, Venue: Ormandy Room, 4th Floor, VanPelt Library Time: 11:30am – 2:00pm FRIDAY, SEP 22, 2006 SOUTH ASIA MUSIC CONCERT: MEHFIL SERIES Pt. Purbayan Chatterjee , (Sitar) & Samir Chatterjee , (tabla) Venue: Houston Hall, Class of '49 Auditorium Time: 8:00pm Co-sponsored by Department of South Asia Studies Summer 2006 AUGUST 2006 THURSDAY, AUG 30, 2006 SOUTH ASIA AT PENN' AT NSO DEAN'S AND DEPARTMENTAL RECEPTION Haimanti Banerjee , and Allyn Miner, UPenn Venue: College Hall Co-sponsored by South Asia Center WEDNESDAY, AUG 30, 2006 SITAR PERFORMANCE Soham Dave, UPenn Venue: BusyBees Childcare Center Time: 9:30am – 12:30pm TUESDAY, AUG 15, 2006 'INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION' PRESENTED BY RANGOLI Swatantra Pindara, (Chief guest) & Deepthi Chandreshekhan, (Bharatnatyam dance performance) Venue: Franklin Room, Houston Hall Time: 6:00pm Co-sponsored by South Asia Center Spring 2006 APRIL 2006 FRIDAY, APR 7, 2006 SOUTH ASIAN MUSIC CONCERT Pandit Nayan Ghosh, sitarist Venue: Harrison House Rooftop Lounge, 3910 Irving (39th and Spruce Streets) Time: 7:00pm Co-sponsored by Department of South Asia Studies MARCH 2006 FRIDAY, MAR 24, 2006 'BETWEEN EMPIRE AND GLOBALIZATION: READING THE PRESENT THROUGH INDIAN FEMINISMS' Presenters: Priya Gopal, Mary John, Nivedita Menon, Raka Ray and Mrinalini Sinha Venue: Room 500, at Annenberg School for Communication, 3620 Walnut Street Co-sponsored by: the Fund to Encourage Women (FEW) of the Trustees' Council of Penn Women for 2005-06, GSE, Alice Paul Center, Department of English, Project for Global Communication Studies (Annenberg School for Communication) FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MAR 17-18, 2006 SOUTH ASIAN CINEMA CONFERENCE: 'CINEMA SOUTH ASIA.' TUESDAY, OCT 17, 2006 Keynote Speaker, Ravi Vasudevan, Sarai, Presenters, Manishita Dass, Swarthmore College; Nitin Govil, University of California at San Diego; Amit Rai, Florida State University; Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota; Anustup Basu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Bhaskar Sarkar, University of California at Santa Barbara; Christian Novetzke, University of Pennsylvania; Lalitha Gopalan, Georgetown University; Monika Mehta, SUNY Binghamton; Neepa Majumdar, University of Pittsburgh; Priya Jaikumar, University of Southern California; Gayatri Chatterjee, University of Pennsylvania; Priya Joshi, Temple University Venue: Rooms 108, 110 and 111 at Annenberg School for Communication, 3620 Walnut Street Time: noon - 5: 00pm followed by dinner and film screening And, WEDNESDAY, OCT 18, 2006 Keynote Speaker, Ravi Vasudevan, Sarai, Presenters, Manishita Dass, Swarthmore College; Nitin Govil, University of California at San Diego; Amit Rai, Florida State University; Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota; Anustup Basu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Bhaskar Sarkar, University of California at Santa Barbara; Christian Novetzke, University of Pennsylvania; Lalitha Gopalan, Georgetown University; Monika Mehta, SUNY Binghamton; Neepa Majumdar, University of Pittsburgh; Priya Jaikumar, University of Southern California; Gayatri Chatterjee, University of Pennsylvania; Priya Joshi, Temple University Venue: Classroom 329 in the Penn Museum Time: 9:30am – 5:30pm Cosponsored by: Project for Global Communication Studies (Annenberg School for Communication) & Cinema Studies FEBRUARY 2006 SATURDAY, FEB 18, 2006 'THE SOUTH ASIAN BAZAAR' Presenters: David Curley, Western Washington University; Sudipta Sen, University of California at Davis; Aditya Behl, University of Pennsylvania; Anand Yang, Dean of the Henry Jackson School of International Studies of the University of Washington; Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University Respondents: Ania Loomba and David Ludden, Ram Prasad Sengupta; University of Pennsylvania and Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi Free and open to all but RSVP is required. Venue: Harrison House Rooftop Lounge, 3910 Irving (39th and Spruce Streets) Time: 9:30am– 5:00pm Co-sponsored by Department of South Asia Studies THURSDAY, FEB 16, 2006 ASIA DAY: K-12 For high school students by invitation. Co-sponsored by Center for East Asian Studies JANUARY 2006 THURSDAY, JAN 26, 2006 "PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THE WORLD TODAY" Dr. Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Venue: Huntsman Hall G06 Time: 7:00pm Co-sponsored by The Office of the Provost, Office of International Programs, Middle East Center, South Asia Center, Center for East Asian Studies, African Studies Center, Penn Lauder Center for International Business Education and Research, Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics, Interdisciplinary Seminar on Women and Islamic Law, Women's Studies Program, the Muslim Student Law Association, and the Penn Persian Student Society. Fall 2005 DECEMBER 2005 TUESDAY, DEC 20, 2006 'DOING BUSINESS IN INDIA' Haimanti Banerjee , South Asia Center, South Asia resource to Dean Foster, Dean Foster Associates Venue: Wyeth Conference Center, 500 Arcola Road, Collegeville, PA 19426 Time: 9:00am– 5:00pm NOVEMBER 2005 MONDAY, NOV 21, 2006 'POLITICAL AND SOCIO-POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN THE INDO-AMERICAN COMMUNITY' Ved Chaudhry, President Educators Society for the Heritage of India  Venue: Cherpack Lounge, Williams Hall Time: 4:30pm Co-sponsored by Department of South Asia Studies WEDNESDAY, NOV 16, 2005 'AN EVENING WITH SALMAN AHMAD' Salman Ahmad , live performance and screening of award winning documentary: 'The Rockstar and the Mullahs' Venue: 200 College Hall