Naach Bhikhari Naach (2018) Film Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Shilpi Gulati
Event Time: Wed, 11/14/2018 - 3:00pmNaach is a form of traditional folk theatre from Bihar, India. In this tradition, male artists often cross dress as women on stage and are referred to as ‘laundas’. The most legendary name in this tradition is Bhikhari Thakur’s...
Enduring Disasters in Sri Lanka
Event Time: Wed, 10/24/2018 - 3:00pmDr. Vivian Choi, Enduring Disasters in Sri Lanka
Abstract:This talk examines the intersections of two disasters in Sri Lanka: the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the decades-long...
Gender, Sovereignty and the Law: Postcolonial Feminist Reflections
Event Time: Wed, 10/17/2018 - 3:00pmPapori Bora, Assistant Professor, Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Recent...
Gender, Sovereignty and the Law: Postcolonial Feminist Reflections
Event Time: Wed, 10/17/2018 - 3:00pmPapori Bora, Assistant Professor, Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Recent...
Movement, A Novel
Event Time: Wed, 09/26/2018 - 3:00pm to 4:30pmV.V. Ganeshananthan, A Reading from "Movement, a novel", Department of English
Movement draws on more than a decade of research on the Sri Lankan civil war. The novel takes place primarily in northern Sri Lanka during the late...
Double Discrimination and the Rise of “New” Dalit (“Untouchable”) Women in Modern India
Event Time: Thu, 09/13/2018 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Abstract: What does education mean to Dalit women and why is
it so important to them? In the context of education, and in a
situation of...
Role of Animal Metaphors in Indian Advertisements
Event Time: Wed, 05/02/2018 - 3:30pm to 5:30pmDr. Meraj Ahmed, who received his PhD from Aligarh Muslim University, teaches Hindi-Urdu language and literature in the Dept. of Asian Languages and Literatures at UMN.
Abstract:Metaphors are concerned with making a connection...
Film Screening of Bidesia in Bambai
Event Time: Wed, 04/18/2018 - 3:30pm to 5:30pmSynopsis:
Bidesia is Bhojpuri for ‘the one who leaves home’. One in four migrants in Mumbai is Bhojpuri, a people from the north Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Bambai is their name for Mumbai/Bombay.
The...
The Moneylender's Power: Monetary Debt and Social Obligation in Contemporary Vidarbha
Event Time: Fri, 04/13/2018 - 3:30pm AARTI SETHI, Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University A quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide since 1995, a majority of deaths concentrated in the central Indian cotton belt of Vidarbha. The post-liberalization...'I Prick The Heart of God Like a Thorn': Manto's "Bu" and the Undermining of Romance
Event Time: Wed, 03/21/2018 - 3:30pmEmily Durham, PhD candidate in the Dept. of Asian Languages and Literatures
Saadat Hasan Manto's commitment to political causes has been doubted by critics and admirers alike, in part because of his consistent refusal to romanticize...