Past
Events
Fall
2007
September 6: Dr. A.V. Srinivasan will discuss
his recent book, The Vedic Wedding: Origins, Traditions,
and Practice. Dr. Srinivasan has conducted Vedic weddings
for thirty years. His book is a scholarly analysis of the
Hindu approach to wedding practices, which date back thousands
of years.
Time: 2-3:15 pm
Location: Babbidge Library, Class of 1947 Room
October 4: Ela Gandhi, human rights activist, former South
African members of parliament, and granddaughter of Mahatma
Gandhi will be the major speaker for the Asian American Studies
Institute's 2007 Ahinsa Seminar.
Time: 4:30 pm
Location: Student Union Theater
October 17: "Survival and Emancipation: One Woman's
Pre-history of the Contemporary Indian Women's Movement." Lecture by Elizabeth Armstrong, Assistant Professor,
Smith College. Co-sponsored with Women's Studies.
Time: 4 pm
Location: Babbidge Library, Class of 1947 Room
October 29: "Whose Voice? Whose Tongue? Indian
Philosophy from Renaissance to Independence." Jay Garfield and Nalini Bhushan of Smith College will give
the 2007 Radha Devi Joshi Lecture. Garfield is the Doris Silbert
Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at
Smith College, Director of the Five College Tibetan Studies
in the India Program, and Professor in the Graduate Faculty
of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts. He is also
an authority on Buddhism and is currently editing the Oxford
Handbook of World Philosophy, among other projects. Bushan
is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Smith working with
Garfield on a project on twentieth century Indian philosophy.
The lecture will present new research materials gathered over
the past year.
Time: 4 pm
Location: Biology/Physics 130
November 2: "India’s
Emergence as a Major Political/Economic Power." Lecture by the Honorable Neelam Deo, Consul General Of India
in New York, Sponsored with UConn Center for International
Business Education and Research.
Time: 11 am
Location: Babbidge Library, Class of 1947 Room
November 13: "'Home and the World' Cosmopolitan,
Transnational Identities of Courtly Women in late Imperial
India." Lecture by Angma Jhala, Tufts University.
Time: 12 noon
Location: Wood Hall Basement Lounge
