Events
Fall
2008
September 15: “An Indian Perspective on the 2008 U.S. Election.”
Lecture by Dr. R. Ramesh Babu, Executive Director, Centre for Governance and Development, and Centre for Global Studies, Hyderabad. Dr. Babu taught for 28 years at the University of Bombay, where he was the Sir Pherozeshah Mehta Professor of Politics and Head of the Department of Civics and Politics. He was the Senior Academic Fellow in International Relations at the American Studies Research Centre, Hyderabad during 1994-1997, and he has received two senior Fulbright Fellowships. He has also served as the Research Director at the Foundation for Democratic Reforms in Hyderabad. Dr. Babu is a specialist in International Politics and American Politics. He has published ten monographs and books and over 50 articles in learned journals and periodicals. His books include Globalization and the South Asian State, Thoughts on the American Presidential System and its Relevance to India.
Time: 4 pm
Location: Class of 1947 Room, Babbidge Library
October 2 - "Gandhi's Legacy of Ahimsa (Nonviolence and Compassion)" - a symposium in honor of Gandhi's birthday.
Sponsored by the Peace and Human Rights Committee at Eastern Connecticut State University and the Asian American Studies Institute at UConn. Also supported by the Jain Administration of the International Summer School of Jain Studies and the Jain Community of Hartford. For more information contact Hope Fitz: fitzh@easternct.edu
Time: 4pm
Location: Eastern Connecticut State University, Betty Tipton room
October 16 - November 14
Exhibit: "Regarding India" comprises three individual exhibitions about India, "Junctures and Constellations" a two person show of Kathryn Myers,Professor of Art, the University of Connecticut and Hanuman Kambli, Professor of Art, The Goa College of Art, Panjim, India. Also on view is "Self Portrait: Fact-Fiction-Fantasy, Students and Alumni from the Goa College of Art" and "Waking From Dreams of India" photographs and photo-montages by Neil Chowdhury, Professor of Photography, Cazenoia College of Art, Cazenovia, NY. ***The opening is at 6:30 pm on Thursday, October 16.***
Location: Jorgensen Gallery
October 26: "Landscape and Belief: A View Camera in the Himalayas"
For two decades Kenneth Hanson has been taking dramatic black and white photographs of the Himalayas.. The mountains provide a unique experience — beauty, joy, terror, awe. For the people of the mountains this encounter is woven into their beliefs. Increasingly the modern world intrudes. Hanson will discuss these interactions and show photographs from his recent book Himalayan Portfolios; Journeys of the Imagination. ***A book signing talk will be held at the Co-op on October 22nd*** Time: 3 pm
Location: Benton Museum
October 30: “Indian Women in the House of Fiction.” Annual Radha Devi Joshi Foundation Lecture by Dr. Geetanjali Singh Chanda, Senior Lecturer in the Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at Yale University. Before Yale, she taught at the
Hong Kong University and Gettysburg College. Dr. Chanda will speak on the subject of her recent book by the same title. In this book, she maps Indian English women's literature in India and the diaspora while situating it in the larger framework of world literatures.
Time: 4:10 pm
Location: Class of 1947 room
Co-sponsor: Center for International Business Education and Research
November 11: “Globalization: India Present at the Creation.” Lecture by Nayan Chanda, Director of Publications and the Editor of YaleGlobal Online Magazine at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. For nearly thirty years before he joined Yale University Chanda was with the Far Eastern Economic Review as its editor, editor-at-large and correspondent. In 1989-90 Chanda was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. From 1990-1992 Chanda was editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, published from New York. He is the author or co-author of over a dozen books on Asian politics, security and foreign policy including Soldiers and Stability in Southeast Asia and The Political Economy of Foreign Policy In Southeast Asia and The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11, which he co-edited with Strobe Talbott. His most recent book is Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization.
Time 3:30 pm
Location: Class of 47 Room, Babbidge Library
Center for International Business Education and Research
November 13: "Waking From Dreams of India" . Neil Chowdhury, professor of photography, Cazenovia College, New York, will give a slide lecture about his work at the Jorgenson Gallery.
Time 4:00 pm
Location: room 101, Dept. of Art and Art History
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