September 15
“Act Locally, Perform Globally: Suman Mukherjee and his Theater”
A discussion with Sudipto Chatterjee, Assistant Professor of Theater,
Dance, and Performance Studies
Suman Mukherjee is Townsend Departmental Resident in the Department of
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities
September 19
“The Home and the World: India’s Aspirations in a Changing
World”
Ambassador B. S. Prakash, Consul General of India
September 19 – October 11
10 Stephens Hall
Art Exhibition: “The Art of Tantra: Tibetan
Thangka Paintings from the Collection of Robert
Beer”
September 22, 7:00 pm
September 23, 4:00 pm
Durham Studio Theater
Play: “The Man of the Heart”
Directed by Suman Mukherjee, Townsend Departmental
Resident in the Department of Theater, Dance,
and Performance Studies
Written and Performed by Sudipto Chatterjee,
Assistant Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance
Studies
Sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities
*September 23 performance will be followed by
a discussion with the director and performer
September 27
6:00 pm
125 Morrison Hall
Lecture-demonstration: Binay Pathak, ghazal
singer and harmonium soloist and accompanist
With Sudev Jay Sheth, tabla
Has performed with eminent artists such as Ustad
Allarakha, Pandit Jasraj, and Ustad Zakir Hussain
September 29
5:00–7:00 pm
CSAS Annual Reception, Stephens Terrace
Enter through the Center at 10 Stephens Hall
October 5
4:00 pm
Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens
Hall
Concert: “Outsider Voice: A Lecture-Demonstration”
Moushumi Bhowmik, with Parapar
October 7
Berkeley Art Museum theater
Conference: “China
India Russia: Investing in Emerging Markets”
Organized by the Haas School of Business, cosponsored
by CSAS
October 13
Concert: A Bansuri Recital
5:00 pm
20 Stephens Hall
Mohini Mohan Pattnaik
Orissi flute maestro, composer, and santoor
player
Head of the Department of Classical Music and
Senior Professor, Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya
October 13-November 11:
10 Stephens Hall
Art Exhibition: “India Rozana: Photographs
of Contemporary Indian Life”
With photojournalist Dilip Banerjee
October 19, 12:00 pm (NOTE NEW TIME)
SSEAS Library, 341 Dwinelle Hall
Lecture: “Untouchables: My Family's Triumphant
Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India”
Narendra Jadhav, Chief Economist and Principal
Adviser, Department of Economic Analysis and
Policy, Reserve Bank of India
Dr. Jadhav will discuss his recent book
October 20, 4:00 pm
370 Dwinelle Hall
Lecture: “Founding a New Islamic State in Asia”
Jit Singh Uberoi, Professor of Sociology Emeritus,
Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
October 24, 4:00-6:00 pm
370 Dwinelle Hall
Bharata Natyam dance lecture-demonstration by Malavika Sarukkai
October 25, 4:00 pm
SSEAS Library, 341 Dwinelle Hall
Lecture: “Is Remembering a Form of Knowing?”
Arindam Chakrabarti, Professor of Philosophy,
University of Hawaii
Cosponsored by the Department of South and Southeast
Asian Studies
October 26, 4:00 pm
Center for South Asia Studies, 20 Stephens Hall
Graduate Student Workshop: "Other Backward Classes in
Uttar Pradesh."
Satendra Kumar (PhD Candidate, University of Delhi)
October 27, 5:00 pm
Seaborg Room, Faculty Club
Lecture: “The 2004 Election in Historical
Perspective: An Immodest Effort to Say How India
has Changed Since Independence”
Lloyd I. Rudolph, Professor of Political Science
Emeritus, University of Chicago
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, Professor of Political
Science Emerita, University of Chicago
November 1, 5:00 pm (note new time)
Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall
Lecture: “Globalization and Cultural Practice:
Interventions in the National Diaspora, the
International Folk, and Grassroots Development”
Rustom Bharucha, Regents’ Lecturer at
UC Berkeley, and an independent writer, director,
and cultural critic based in Calcutta
Cosponsored by the Department of South and Southeast
Asian Studies and the Department
November 9, 4:00 pm
Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Lecture: "The Indigenous Islamic Performances of Bangladesh as Mechanisms of Hegemony and Resistance"
Syed Jamil Ahmed, Professor, Department of Theatre and Music, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sponsored by the Caucasus and Central Asia Program, the Center for South Asia Studies, and the
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
November 11-12
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, 8th Floor
Conference: “Translating Culture: Sikh
and Punjab Studies in Global Perspective”
Supported by a gift from the Sikh Foundation
to the College of Letters and Science
November 11 - 13
Roxie & Castro Cinemas, San Francisco
Third San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival
Co-sponsored by 3d I
November 11 - 20
Durham Studio Theater
Play: “Harvest”
(West Coast Premiere)
Written by Manjula Padmanabhan, writer and artist
Directed by Sudipto Chatterjee, Assistant Professor of Theater, Dance,
and Performance Studies
A production of the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
November 21
4 pm
20 Stephens Hall
Graduate Student Workshop: A Panel Presentation on Field Research
Catherine Becker, Sonal Khullar, Fouzieyha Towghi
December 7, 4:00 pm, 20 Stephens Hall
Graduate Student Workshop
Smitha Radhakrishnan: "Global" Indian Women
& the Cultural Politics of IT India.
