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CULTURE, CAPITAL, AND THE MAKING OF THE NEW INDIA
An annual faculty research seminar at Temple University

Convener: Priya Joshi, Department of English
pjoshi@temple.edu

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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