2007-08 Events
Fall 2007
Friday, September 28, 2007, 3:30-6:30pm, 1123 Anderson
Jashn-e-Azadi (How we Celebrate Freedom, 2007), a screening and discussion with
documentary filmmaker Sanjay Kak
co-sponsored with Philadelphia Cinema and Media Seminar
Spring 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 4-6 pm, 914 Gladfelter Hall (Weigley Room)
Kazi Khaleed Ashraf, University of Hawai'i, School of Architecture
"Raga India: Architecture in the Time of Euphoria"
Thursday, April 17, 2008, 11:40am - 1pm, CHAT Lounge, 10th floor Gladfelter Hall
Book Discussion of Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti (eds.), Global Bollywood: Transnational Travels of the Song-Dance Sequence (Minnesota, 2008)
Discussants: Sumita Chakravarty (New School University) and Pallabi Chakravorty (Swarthmore College)
2006-2007 Events
Thursday, November 2, 2006, 4-6pm, CHAT, 10th Floor Gladfelter
Anu Mathur and Dilip da Cunha, (Penn School of Design)
"A View across the Maidan: Recovering a Dynamic Landscape"
Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 4-6 pm, CHAT, 10th floor, Gladfelter
Ela Bhatt, "From Independence to Freedom: SEWA Women’s Journey"
Tuesday, January 23, 2007, 3-5pm, Carzo Room, 318 Speakman Hall
Sanjoy Chakravorty (GUS), Mark Cohen (Political Science), and Arvind Phatak (Fox Business School) discuss
"India, an Emerging Power: The Economic, Political, and Cultural Dynamics"
Wednesday, March 14, 2007, 4-6pm, Russell Weigley Room, 914 Gladfelter Hall
Book Discussion of Sanjoy Chakravorty's Made in India: The Economic Geography and Political Economy of Industrialization (with S. Lall, Oxford, 2007)
Discussants: David Ludden, History, Penn and NYU, and Shanker Satyanath, Political Science, NYU
Moderator: Carolyn Adams, Interim Dean, CLA
Thursday, March 22, 2007, 8:00pm, Room 222 at Temple Center City (TUCC), 1515 Market Street
Bhanu Kapil
Part of POETRY COMPLEX: Writing that crosses genres
co-sponsored by the Temple Creative Writing Program and Temple-Penn Poetics
Wednesday, April 4, 2007, 5-7pm, Russell Weigley Room, 914 Gladfelter Hall
Vikram Chandra, University of California, Berkeley
Award-winning writer of Love and Longing in Bombay (1997) will read from his riveting new crime novel, Sacred Games (HarperCollins, 2007)
Thursday, April 12, 2007, 4-6pm, Russell Weigley Room, 914 Gladfelter Hall
Rachel Dwyer, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
"Screen Goddesses: Female Deities in Indian Cinema"
Friday, April 20, 2007, 3:30-5:30pm, Russell Weigley Room, 914 Gladfelter Hall
Abhijat Joshi, Otterbein College, Ohio
"Bollywood Films: What Would Gandhi Say?"
A conversation with the scriptwriter of the award-winning Bollywood hit Lage Raho, Munnabhai (2006, dir. Rajkumar Hirani)
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