Colloquium: Transnational South Asia

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COLLOQUIUM: TRANSNATIONAL SOUTH ASIA Sponsored by ARHU-DRIF, Asian American Studies Program, and the depts of Women's Studies, History, and Computer Studies. For details, contact Prof. Ashwini Tambe, [email protected] Spring 2013 Speakers March 1, 4pm, Merill Room, 2120 Key Hall “Genocide/Genre Kamala Visweswaran Associate Professor, UT-Austin. Author, Fictions of Feminist Ethnography (University of Minnesota press, 1994) and Uncommon Cultures: Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference (Duke U Press, 2010.) March 28, 3:30-5pm, 2110 Taliaferro Hall “Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America Vivek Bald Assistant Professor, MIT and documentary filmmaker. Author, Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (Harvard University Press, 2013.) April 4: 5-7pm, 4172 A.V. Williams Building “Gender, Science and Caste in India Abha Sur Women's and Gender Studies, MIT. Author, Dispersed Radiance: Caste, Gender, and Modern Science in India (Navayana, 2011.)

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Spring 2013 Spekers: Kamala Visweswaran, Vivek Bald, and Abha Sur

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COLLOQUIUM:

TRANSNATIONAL SOUTH ASIA

Sponsored by ARHU-DRIF, Asian American Studies Program, and the depts of Women's Studies, History, and Computer Studies. For details, contact Prof. Ashwini Tambe, [email protected]

Spring 2013 SpeakersMarch 1, 4pm, Merill Room, 2120 Key Hall “Genocide/Genre”Kamala Visweswaran Associate Professor, UT-Austin. Author, Fictions of Feminist Ethnography (University of Minnesota press, 1994) and Uncommon Cultures: Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference (Duke U Press, 2010.)

March 28, 3:30-5pm, 2110 Taliaferro Hall “Bengali Harlem and the

Lost Histories of South Asian America”Vivek Bald

Assistant Professor, MIT and documentary filmmaker. Author, Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian

America (Harvard University Press, 2013.)

April 4: 5-7pm, 4172 A.V. Williams Building“Gender, Science and Caste in India”Abha Sur Women's and Gender Studies, MIT. Author, Dispersed Radiance: Caste, Gender, and Modern Science in India (Navayana, 2011.)