South Asia Graduate Student Seminar 2003-2004
Fall 2003
October 15. "The Politics of Gender and Development in Himachal Pradesh, India." Arian Schulze, P.h.D. candidate, Anthropology
October 30. "Between Jesse Helms and Ram Bahadur: Women, 'Participation,' and 'Empowerment' in Nepal." Lauren Leve, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, New School University
November 14. "Pressing Difference: The Role of Agriculture in India's Biodiversity Planning Process." Nikhil Anand, M. A. candidate in Forestry and Environmental Studies
November 17. "Dreaming Equality, Enacting Hatred: How South India is Different from the North." Dilip Menon, Lecturer in History, University of Delhi and Agrarian Studies, Yale University
December 4. "Demolitions to Dialogue: Housing Movements, Women and the City in India." Celine D'Cruz, Slum/Shack Dwellers International and Yale World Fellow
December 11. "The Notion of the Nation vs. the Substance of the Self: Jammu and Kashmir at the Crossroads." Patrick Hoenig, United Nations Security Council Affairs Division
Spring 2004
January 29. "Uncivil Majorities: State Spatialization and Differentiated Citizenship in Southern India." Ajantha Subramanian, Harvard University
February 5. "Nonsense as Sense-Making: Globalization and Bombay Cinema." Lakshmi Srinivas, Wellesley College
February 9. "Suffering, Sentiment and Politics in Sri Lanka." Malathi de Alwis, New School University
February 26. "Cyborg/Artisans in Benares and the Transnational Differentiation of Indian Labor." Arindam Dutta, MIT
March 25. "The Emergence of a 'Dalit' Public." Anupama Rao, Barnard College
March 29. "The Desi Bourgeoisie." Vijay Prashad, Trinity College
April 15. "Empty Citizenship: Reconfiguring Politics in the Era of Globalization." Ritty Lukose, University of Pennsylvania
April 22. “Under Official Eyes: Women’s ‘Empowerment’, Governmentality, and the State in India.” Aradhana Sharma, Wesleyan University
April 29. “Pakistan Independence Day Festival in Houston: Public Performance of a Transnational Pakistani Muslim Nationhood in the Diaspora.” Ahmed Afzal, Yale Department of Anthropology
Sponsored by the South Asia Graduate Student Seminar Series, with support from the Council on South Asian Studies, Yale Graduate School, and the Graduate and Professional Student Senate.
