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Press Release
09/25/2014
25th Anniversary Conference
Tufts Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies
September 26-27, 2014
Tufts Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies
September 26-27, 2014
Please note that NO registration is required. The conference is open to all students, academics and enthusiasts of South Asia.
The details of the conference program and venue are as follows,
DAY 1: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 - ASEAN Auditorium, The Fletcher School
Welcome Remarks
4:00pm: David Harris, Provost of Tufts University
4:10pm: Jim Glaser, Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences,
Tufts University
Keynote Lecture
4:30pm:
"Is there Anything Special about South Asian Studies?"
Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
Anniversary Address by Founding Director
5:30pm:
"A Sea Change in South Asian Historiography?
Reflections on the Last Twenty-Five Years"
Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University; Member of the 16th Lok Sabha
6:30-7:30pm: Reception and Anniversary messages
DAY 2: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 - Cabot 7th Floor, The Fletcher School
9:00-10:15am:
Panel I: Interventions in South Asian Studies
Seema Alavi, Delhi University
"From the Bay of Bengal to the Bosphorous: Muslim networks in the age of Empire'
Farina Mir, University of Michigan
'Muslim Ethics and Literature in Colonial India: Writing under the Sign of 'Aklaq'
Brian Hatcher, Tufts University
"The Suffering Scholar and the Healing Lord: A Materialist Look at a Sacred Center'
10:30-11:45am:
Panel II: Persisting Concerns in South Asian Studies
Neilesh Bose, St. John's University
'Rethinking Religion Reform in Colonial India: Situating the Brahma Samaj in the History of Religion'
Kris Manjapra, Tufts University
"A Wind is Blowing the World Over": Decolonization and Third World Thought in Bengal
Sarah Pinto, Tufts University
'Hysteria in India and the Ways Medicine Moves'
1:00-2:15pm:
Panel III: South Asia without Borders
Semanti Ghosh, Anandabazar Patrika
'The Rule of 'National' Difference: A Bengal Perspective'
S. Akbar Hyder, University of Texas, Austin
'Jupiter, Just Step Away'
Sana Aiyer, MIT
'Out of India: Political Homelands and Diasporic Identity'
Lightning Round
2:15-3:00pm: Undergraduate Research at the Center
Moderated by Sherman Teichman
3:00-3:45pm: Graduate Research at the Center
Panel IV: Contemporary Challenges facing South Asia
4:00-5:00pm:
Ayesha Jalal, Director of the Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Tufts University
Sugata Bose, Harvard University
Kris Manjapra, Tufts University
PARKING: Paid Parking is available on campus at Dowling Hall Garage (419 Boston Ave., Medford, MA)
Co-sponsor of Event: Tufts History Department
Contact: Neelum Sohail, Neelum.Sohail@tufts.edu
http://ase.tufts.edu/southasian/events2014Sep.asp
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