Past Events: Academic Year 2012-2013
- February 25, 2013: Graduate Student Workshop, Nishaant Choksi
Please join us for a graduate student workshop with Nishaant Choksi, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology. Nishaant will be workshopping a chapter from his dissertation. The chapter is entitled "The Bongas' Marks: Scriptmaking and the Re-Enchantment of Santali Writing." (4 p.m., 210 West Hall) - January 17, 2013: Book Discussion, Dr. Michael H. Fisher,
Please join us to discuss selections from Dr. Michael H. Fisher's The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo Indian MP and Chancery "Lunatic." Fisher is the Robert S. Danforth Professor of History at Oberlin College. (6 p.m., 210 West Hall) - December 8, 2012: Graduate Student Workshop, Arye Chakravartty and Purvi Mehta Please join us for a graduate student workshop with Arye Chakravarty, Ph.D. candidate in History at Pennsylvania State University and Purvi Mehta, Ph.D. candidate in Anthro-History at the University of Michigan. Chakravarty's paper is entitled "Articulating Mithila: Interrogating the Existence of a 'Genuinely' Bihari Culture." Mehta's paper is entitled "Recasting Caste: Histories of Dalit Transnationalism and the Internationalization of Caste Discrimanation."
- November 12, 2012: Talk, Dr. Nayanika Mathur Please join us to discuss Dr. Nayanika Mathur's article, "The Reign of Terror of the Big Cat: Bureaucracy and the Mediation of Social Times in the Indian Himalaya." Mathur is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Her doctoral thesis, completed in 2010 from the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University is an ethnography of the developmental Indian state. (6 p.m., 1014 Tisch)