December 2005-February 2006:
CSAS, 10 Stephens Hall
Art Exhibition: “YES: Prints by Manjula Padmanabhan”
January 23
6:30 pm
20 Stephens Hall
Information Session: American India Foundation's
Service Corps Fellowship
February 2
4 pm
20 Stephens Hall
Graduate Student Workshop: "Bombay Dyeing, India Shining, and the
Future of Laborers Past."
Thomas Asher, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
February 7:
4 pm
223 Moses Hall
Workshop on IIS
Dissertation Fellowships (Simpson, Bendix and Sharlin)
February 8
7 pm
Heller Lounge, MLK Student Union
'Taal aur Bhaav' Indian Classical Dance Workshop: "Odissi and Bhaav
(Emotion)" (poster)
Niharika Mohanty, disciple of the late Odissi legend Guru Kelucharan
Mohapatra
February 9
4 pm
20 Stephens Hall
Alankar student performance
Classical South Asian music
February 9
6:30 pm
182 Dwinelle Hall
Documentary Film Screening: "Raising
Our Voices: South Asian Americans Address Hate"
Cosponsored by SAALT, ASAPA, and CSAS
February 11-18
Stanford University
Pan-Asian Music
Festival
February 17-18
Conference: 21st
Annual South Asia Conference at the University of California, Berkeley
Vikram Chandra, keynote speaker
February 22
7 pm
370 Dwinelle
'Taal aur Bhaav' Indian Classical Dance Workshop: "Kathak and Taal (Rhythm)"
(poster)
Charlotte Moraga, acclaimed disciple of Pt. Chitresh Das
Organized by Satrang
February 23
4 pm
20 Stephens Hall
Graduate Student Workshop: "Short Stories,
Long Journeys: Negotiating National Identity in an Early 20th Century
Hindi Journal"
Sujata Mody, SSEAS
February 26
4 pm
Julia Morgan Center for the Arts
"Nigah: a special evening of Indian Classical Dance and Music"
(poster)
Odissi and Kathak Indian Classical Dance Performance by acclaimed artists:
Niharika Mohanty and Charlotte Moraga, with special musical guests
Cosponsored by CSAS
February 28
5 pm
10 Stephens Hall
Opening and Reception: "Badmash! A Retrospective
of the Desi Comic Strip"
March 1
4 pm
130 Wheeler Hall
Lecture: “Transforming US-India Relations: Why President Bush
is Visiting India”
Ambassador B. S. Prakash, Consul-General, San Francisco
March 2
4 pm
20 Stephens Hall
Graduate Student Workshop: "Dams and Development on India's Narmada
River"
Mike Levien, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley
March 3
12 pm
341 Dwinelle
Lecture: The Jaina-Mimamsa Debate on Omniscience
Olle Qvarnström, Indic Religions Division, Lund University in Sweden
March 9
2224 Piedmont Street, Room 15
3-5 pm
Lecture: "Making Evidence:
The Case of Antidepressant Prescriptions in India"
Stefan Ecks, University of Edinburgh
Sponsored by the Medical Anthropology Program
March 9
5 pm
341 Dwinelle
Lecture: "Outing Heteronormativity: National Citizenship,
Feminist Disruptions (A Study of Sexuality Movements in India since
the 1990s)"
Nivedita Menon, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi
March 16
12 pm
SSEAS Library, 341 Dwinelle Hall
Lecture: “India’s Global Policy:
U.S. Attraction, Multidirectional Initiatives and Internal Debates”
Jean-Luc
Racine, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of India and South Asia,
EHESS, Paris
Organized by the French
Studies Program and cosponsored by CSAS
March 16
7:30 pm
Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Ave.
Reading: Three Cups of Tea,
by Greg Mortenson
Cosponsored by the Central Asia Asia Institute and CSAS
March 16-26
Pacific
Film Archive and elsewhere
Film Series: 24th
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Organized by the Center for Asian American Media
April 4
5 pm
SSEAS Library, 341 Dwinelle
Lecture: "Hinduising the Dastan or, The Making of a 19th Century
Hindi Bestseller"
Francesca Orsini, University Lecturer in Hindi, Faculty of Oriental
Studies, Cambridge University
Co-sponsored by the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
April 5
5:00 pm
10 Stephens Hall
Exhibition Opening: "Taxi-Wallahs of Berkeley:
Photographs and Narratives by Aditya Dhawan"
With photographer Aditya Dhawan
7:00 pm, following the exhibition opening
220 Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, Townsend Center
Lecture: "Taxi! Cabs and Capitalism in New York City"
Biju Mathew, Rider University
Cosponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies, EKTA and the Center
for Labor Research and Education
April 10
5 pm
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Lecture: "Constructing Orientalism: Translations
into English from the Indian Languages in the 19th Century"
Harish Trivedi, Department of English, University of Delhi
Co-sponsored by the Departments of English and South and Southeast Asian
Studies
April 10
4 pm
155 Dwinelle Hall
Lecture: “The Bush Visit to India: Success or Failure?”
Dr. Stephen Cohen, The Brookings Institution
The United States and South Asia Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by the Institute for International Studies and the Department
of Political Science
April 11
5:30 pm
The Asia Society, 500 Washington St., San Francisco
Lecture: “To the Brink? Nuclear Weapons, Religious Extremism,
and U.S. Foreign Policy in South Asia”
Co-sponsored by the Asia Society of Northern California
April 13
4 pm
120 Doe Library
Graduate student reception
Adnan Malik
South and Southeast Asia Librarian
April 17
12 pm
145 Dwinelle Hall
Lecture: "The Future of US-Pakistan Relations"
His Excellency
Ambassador Jehangir Karamat, Pakistani Ambassador to the United
States
The United States and South Asia Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by the Institute
for International Studies, the Department
of Political Science and the Asia
Society of Northern California
April 20
5 pm
North Gate Library
Panel: "India: Behind the Economic Boom"
Organized by the Graduate School of Journalism
April 22-23
220 Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, Townsend Center
The
Time of the Cholas: 900-1300 C.E.
Second Annual Tamil Conference
April 24
4:15 pm
South and Southeast Asian Studies Library, 341 Dwinelle Hall
Lecture: "Of Maps, Mother Goddesses and Martyrdom: Visualizing
Political Death in Modern India"
Sumathi Ramaswami, Department of History, University of Michigan
Co-sponsored by the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
and the Department of History
April 26
8 pm
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Lecture: "Occult
Transmissions: Religion After Religion in Literary Modernism"
Gauri Viswanathan, Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities, Columbia
University
Sponsored by the Department of English
April 27-May 7
Play: Man of the Heart
Kraine Theater, New York
April 29
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
Security Symposium: "The Future of US-India
Relations"
Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science
May 1
4 pm
220 Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, Townsend Center
Lecture: “Kashmir and Stability”
Michael Krepon, The Stimson Center
The United States and South Asia Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by the Institute for International Studies and the Department
of Political Science
May 1
8 pm
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Lecture: "'The
Birth of the Modern World': Religion, Secularism and the State"
Gauri Viswanathan, Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities, Columbia
University
Sponsored by the Department of English
May 2
4 pm
223 Moses Hall, Institute of International Studies
Lecture: "Indian Politics and International Relations Since the
End of the Cold War"
Achin Vanaik, Professor of International Relations and Global Politics,
Political Science Department of Delhi University; Fellow and Board Member,
The Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, Netherlands
May 3
8 pm
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Lecture: "The
Great Game: The Geopolitics of Secret Knowledge"
Gauri Viswanathan, Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities, Columbia
University
Sponsored by the Department of English
May 25-26
Sibley Hall and South Hall
Conference: International
Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
