Tues.
September 13 - Noon - 1 PM
Location: Memorial Union, Check
T.I.T.U
Women, Music and Social
Change in India
Dr. Christine Garlough, Assistant Professor,
Communication Arts, UW-Madison
Garlough is especially interested in how
marginalized groups use cultural resources to promote discussion
on political questions. She has been particularly interested in
Sahiyar, a radical group that has used songs and plays to talk
about issues such as dowry, rape, and incest.
This lecture is co-sponsored by
the Center for South Asia as part of the series Conversations
on World Music. A series of lunch time conversations on world
music. Sponsored by the Division of International Studies and
the International Institute, in conjunction with the Madison World
Music Festival, Sept. 15-17. http://www.union.wisc.edu/worldmusicfest/conversations.html
Wed. September 14 - Noon
- 1 PM
206 Ingraham Hall
The Siddis (Africans) of
India: Arts and Agency
Dr. Henry Drewal, Evjue-Bascom Professor of African and African
Diaspora Arts at the UW-Madison
Drewal will discuss the artistic traditions
of the Siddi community from Karnataka, India. The Siddis are descendants
of early African immigrants to South Asia, brought as slaves to
India in the 16th century by the Portuguese. This lecture is co-sponsored
by the African Studies Program
Thurs. September 15 - Noon
- 1 PM
206 Ingraham
CSA FALL RECEPTION
Please join the Center for South
Asia's staff and faculty for an informal reception to help kick
off the school year! Some food and soft drinks will be provided.
We hope to see you!
Thurs. September 22 - Noon
- 1 PM
206 Ingraham Hall
Science and Society in
Colonial India
Dr. Deepak Kumar, Professor, School of Physical Science, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, Delhi
Kumar will focus his talk on the place of
science, new knowledge and new techniques during the 19th century
South Asia. There was a new form of government, new exposures
and a cultural encounter, if no renaissance. He will explore:
How did the Indians feel? What were the new strategies? What lessons
we draw?
Dr. Kumar is currently a visiting professor
in Medical Sciences at UW-Madison.
Thurs. September 29
To be announced
Thurs. October 13
To be announced
Thurs. October 20
To be announced
Thurs. October 27- Noon
- 1 PM
206 Ingraham Hall
Dr. Asma Ibrahim
Thurs. November 3
- Noon - 1 PM
206 Ingraham Hall
Dr. Jack Hawley
Thurs. November 10
- Noon - 1 PM
206 Ingraham Hall
When David Meets Goliath: How Global Trade Institutions Shape
Domestic Politics in India
Dr. Aseema Sinha, Assistant Professor, Political Science, UW-Madison
Thurs. November 17 - Noon
- 1 PM
206 Ingraham Hall
Writing Home and Hygiene:
Women’s Writings, Self- Representation, and the Nation.
Dr. Srirupa Prasad
This paper is situated within a paradigm in feminist
autobiographical criticism that in recent years has called for
a “postcolonial move”. It analyzes writings by middle
class, Bengali women mostly from urban Calcutta between the late
19th and early 20th centuries to explore their perceptions and
ideologies around health, hygiene, and well-being. Situated within
a broader discourse of domesticity, these writings were “acts
of retrieval” by which middle class women sought to lay
claims in the production of knowledge about a domain of which
they were considered naturalized beings, but at the same time
unable to become experts in its objective understanding.
Dr. Prasad is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor
in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University
of Wisconsin at Madison. She completed her doctoral dissertation,
which is an archival study of discourses on health, well being,
and domesticity and their association with nationalism, colonialism,
and modernity, in late 19th and early 20th centuries Bengal/India,
from the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of research interests are History
of Medicine and Health, Historical Sociology, Nationalism and
Colonialism, and Gender.
Thurs. December 1 - Noon - 1 PM
206 Ingraham Hall
Dr. Kaleem Lushari
Thurs. December 8 - Noon - 1 PM
206 Ingraham Hall
Hinduism as a Legal Tradition
Dr. Don Davis
Assistant Professor, Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW-Madison
The legal side of the Hindu tradition
has been unduly neglected. This presentation attempts to demonstrate
the significance and advantages of incorporating legal categories
and theory into a study of Hinduism. First, the standard view
of what Hindu law is must change and must not be limited to the
Dharmasastra texts. In doing so, the relevance of law to a variety
of Hindu groups both high and low caste will become clearer. Second,
the tendency of legal systems to make categorizations will bring
to light a more subtle process of boundary-creation and identity-formation
in the Hindu tradition.
I want to argue for the foundational importance of Hindu law for
understanding South Asian culture and history. The intent is to
invite scholars to see the relevance of India’s legal thought
to their own work. There is an infectious and illuminating obviousness
about the significance of legal categories, legal reasoning, and
legal institutions in the cultural history of South Asia, but
one has to “catch the bug.” In the end, the presentation
will suggest that a study of law should be as indispensible to
a study of Hinduism as it is to a study of Islam and Judaism,
for both similiar and different reasons.
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