South Asia Graduate Student Colloquium 2004-2005
Fall 2004
September 23rd. “Too Bold, Too Hot: Crossing ‘Culture’ in AIDS Prevention in Nepal.” Stacy Pigg, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
September 30th. “Masses, Classes, Good Girls and Bad Men: Discourses of Class and Gender in the Bombay Film Industry.” Tejaswini Ganti, Assistant Professorof Anthropology, Connecticut College
October 7th. “The Rural in the Urban: Human Settlements, River Territories, and a Contingent State in Kathmandu.” Anne Rademacher, Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology, Yale University
October 18th. Dhrupad lecture and demonstration. Wasifuddin Dagar
October 21st. “Memories of Tibet: Transnationalism, Transculturation and the Production of Collective Cultural Identity in Northern Pakistan.” Kenneth MacDonald, Assistant Professor of Geography and International Development Studies, University of Toronto
October 28th. “Against the Grain: Making the Lives of Professional Pakistani Women Visible.” Shahla Haeri, Director, Women’s Studies Program &Professor of Anthropology, Boston University
November 11th. “A Suitable Text for a Vegetarian Audience: Questions of Caste, Ethics and Authenticity.” Rashmi Sadana, Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology, Columbia University
Spring 2005
January 20th. “Everything you’ve Ever Wanted to Know about Grants but were Afraid to Ask.” Thomas Burns, Assistant Dean, Yale Graduate School, Kamari Clarke, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Molly Margaretten, PhD Candidate in Anthropology
February 3rd. “Fear not the Exam: Tips and Pitfalls in Studying for the Orals and Writtens.” Panel of upper-year Anthropology PhD Students
February 18th. “Of AbOriginal and CopyRight: The Work of the Aesthetic in the Age of its Global Reproducibility.” Arindam Dutta, Associate Professor of the History of Architecture, MIT
April 4th. “Trespasses of the State: Ministering the Copyright/Trademark to Theological Dilemmas in Pakistan.” Naveeda Khan, Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
April 14th. “Empire and Space: Exploration and Civilization in the WesternHimalayas in the 19th Century.” Shafqat Hussain, PhD Candidate in FES/Anthropology and “From Clarity to Confusion: Discovering Women’s Vision of the Future in Pakistan.” Annie Harper, PhD Candidate in Anthropology
April 28th. “The (Un)Making of a South Asian Aesthetic: The Circulation of Bollywood in Pakistan and amongst Pakistani immigrants in the West.” Ahmed Afzal, PhD Candidate in Anthropology
Organized by ajay.gandhi@yale.edu, devika.bordia@yale.edu, durba.chattaraj@yale.edu, and supported by the South Asian Studies Council, Yale Graduate School and the Graduate and Professional
Student Senate
