April 2 - Noon
Microbial Science Building Room 6201

"Science and Technology Collaboration between India and the United States: Perspectives and Opportunities "

Dr. Arabinda Mitra

The talk is sponsored by the Khorana Program for Scientific Exchange, a new UW program with the following objectives: (1) provide Indian and US students with a transformative international experience; (2) increase interaction between the Indian and US scientific communities in academia and the private sector; (3) contribute to Indian rural development. Sixteen Khorana Fellows from India will be on campus this summer for research internships in laboratories in CALS, L&S, Engineering, and Medicine. Khorana Fellows from UW are expected to go to India next summer.

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March 8 - 8:45AM - 9PM
Pyle Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Emerging Powers in the Global System "

Aseema Sinha
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March 7 - Noon - 1PM
5230 Social Science

"Peopling of the Tibetan Plateau"
Dr. Aldenderfer's interests include: Quantitative Methods, Geographic Information Systems, Hunters and Gatherers, Central Asia, and Tibet

Dr. Mark Aldenderfer from the Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona

March 1
TBA

"The Widow Colony."

Sikh Student Association

The Widow Colony is a film that takes an in-depth look into the lives of the widows of the Sikh men who were killed in the anti-Sikh massacre of November, 1984. The film, directed by Harpreet Kaur, explores the suffering of these women, their battle for justice, and their struggle for survival in India. Furthermore, thedirector and producer are flying in to host a Q &A session following the film to add a personal dimension to the documentary.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia, The Department of Anthropology, Wisconsin Union Directorate Film Committee and the Associate Student of Madison.

You can learn more about the film at www.TheWidowColony.com

February 29 - 7:30PM
Lee Lounge, Pyle Center

"Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History"

Lawrence A. Kimpton, Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, University of Chicago

This lecture tracks some nineteenth and early-twentieth century European and colonial ideas of universal history and discusses how and why decolonization led to their decline.

Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College. He is also a Faculty Fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, holds a visiting position at the Research School of Humanities at the Australian National University, and an Honorary Professorial Fellowship with the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia . He is a founding member of the editorial collective of Subaltern Studies, a co-editor of Critical Inquiry, and a founding editor of Postcolonial Studies. He has also served on the editorial boards of the American Historical Review and Public Culture.

Chakrabarty's books include: Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 (Princeton: 1989, 2000); Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, 2000; second edn. forthcoming in 2007); Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies (Chicago, 2000); Provincializzare l'Europa (Rome: Meltemi, 2004). He has also edited (with Shahid Amin) Subaltern Studies IX (Delhi: OUP, 1996), (with Carol Breckenridge, Homi Bhabha, and Sheldon Pollock) Cosmopolitanism (Duke, 2000), and (with Rochona Majumdar and Andrew Sartori) From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition (Delhi: OUP, 2007). French and Spanish translations of Provincializing Europe are due out in 2008.

February 27 - 3:30 - 4:30 PM
336 Ingraham Hall

"Democracy, Parochialism, and Peace"

Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer

February 18 - 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
ATT Lounge, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.

Eswar Prasad, Senior Professor of Trade Policy in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University

Eswar Prasad served as the China desk officer at the IMF for two years, has co-authored several influential papers and monographs on financial globalization and has co-edited a book on China vs. India. He is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. He previously worked as the Chief of the Financial Studies Division in the IMF’s Research Department.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His research has spanned a number of areas including labor economics, business cycles, and open economy macroeconomics. His extensive publication record includes articles in numerous collective volumes as well as top academic journals such as The American Economic Review, The Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics etc. He is one of the lead authors of a recent IMF study on Financial Globalization and has edited IMF books and monographs on China, Hong Kong and India. His current research interests include the macroeconomics of globalization, the relationship between growth and volatility, and the Chinese and Indian economies.

Dr. Prasad has served as the co-editor of the journal IMF Staff Papers, was on the editorial board of Finance & Development and was the founding editor of the quarterly IMF Research Bulletin. He has been a Research Fellow of IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn) since 2002.

To view his full biography and access his published works visit: http://prasad.aem.cornell.edu/index.htm

December 3, 2007
11am, 227 Pyle Center

"Locality and Partition: Lahore and Amritsar"

Ian Talbot, Southampton University
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This paper will thus represent an important contribution to empirical knowledge of the aftermath of Partition of India.
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November 16th
315 Pyle Center

"The re-positioning of Tamil identity in the new political economy. "

Dr. Andrew Wyatt, Department of Politics, University of Bristol
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"Caste, class and improvised politics on a north Indian university campus"

Dr Craig Jeffrey, Department of Geography and Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
http://www.wun.ac.uk/southasianstudies/index.html