CSAS is happy to make available audio recordings of the Winter 2007 Scholarly Lecture Series.

Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities Columbia University - Monday, January 29th at 4pm - As part of the II Citizenship at Risk Lecture Series

• " Gandhi, The Political Radical"

 

 

 

Christoph Emmrich, Professor of Historical Studies University of Toronto - Friday, February 2nd at 5pm - Co-sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures

• "Bolted Suites. Connecting and Competing Rituals for Girls Between Burma and Nepal"

 

 

 

Patrick Heller , Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Political Economy of Development Program, Brown  University -Monday, March 5th at 5pm -As part of the II Citizenship at Risk Lecture Series

• " Making Citizens from Below: The Prospects and Challenges of Decentralization in India"

Daniel Herwitz, Mary Fair Croushore Professor and Director, Institute for the Humanities, U-M - Friday, March 16th at 5pm

• "A Change of the Past in Modern Indian Art"

David Shulman , Professor, Institute of Arts and Letters, Hebrew University - Friday, April 6th at 5pm -As part of the conference: Receiving the Erotic in South India: Conversations with David Shulman

• " On Erotic Delusion and the Discovery of the Novel:  A 16th Century Telugu Poem about Being Human"

Yogendra Yadav, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Hughes Visiting Fellow, U-M, Center for South Asian Studies - Tuesday, April 10th at 4pm - As part of the II Citizenship at Risk Lecture Series

• "Indian Democracy and Poverty in India"

CSAS Events: Related Audio Files

The following audio files are of CSAS related events which occured during the Winter 2007 term.

From April 1-3, leading members of the Indian street theater group the Jana Natya Manch (People’s Theater Group or JANAM), Moloyashree Hashmi and Sudhanva Deshpande, visited the University of Michigan. Campus events included a screening of a documentary film about JANAM, Natak Jari Hai (The Play Goes On), two lectures, and an interactive performance piece entitled Bolo Kya Banoge Tum (Which Side are You On). This group was brought and hosted by CSAS graduate student, Neil Doshi. It is through his effort that CSAS is able to bring you the following recordings.

You can find more information on the the JANAM visit to the University of Michigan by visiting the event website: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/janam/home.

Moloyashree (Mala) Hashmi & Sudhanva Deshpande, JANAM Directors
Monday, April 2nd at 3:30pm

• "Street Theatre in India: The JANAM Experience "

 

 

Sudhanva Deshpande, JANAM Director
Tuesday, April 3rd at 2:30pm

• "Art in the Margins: The Relevance of Political Art in India. "

 

 

 

Receiving the Erotic in South India: Conversations with David Shulman

University of Michigan, April 6th-7th, 2007

Themes of erotic attraction, longing, and romantic relationships have been centrally productive in the literary arts of South India, both among the regional languages, and in their complex relati.ons with each other and with Sanskrit.  The subsequent responses to these literatures, in their varied evaluations and interpretations, have shaped both scholarly reconstructions of what these literatures meant to their audiences, as well as how they have been received through time in the regions that produced them.  On the occasion of David Shulman’s first visit to campus, this conference convenes experts in these various South Indian literatures for the purpose of rethinking, in his company, the complex dialectic between these works and their various frames of reception and interpretation.

Conference Thematic, Abstracts and Audio Recordings