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Events Fall 2002-Spring 2003

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Fall 2003

September

September 11, Robert W. Woodruff Library 540 Asbury Circle, Jones Room, 4:00-6:00 p.m.

"Clash of Civilizations or an Islamic Revolution?" Indonesia, 9/11 and the Politics of Contemporary Islam. Professor Robert W. Hefner of the Department of Anthropology, Boston University

Hefner is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Religion and World Affairs at Boston University. This event is open to the public and is co-sponsored by Emory University Development Studies, Asian Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Religion, the Hightower Lecture Fund and the Ford Foundation. For more information contact Juana Clem McGhee at 404-727-6959 or mcghee@emory.edu - for a review of Dr. Hefner's book, please visit http://www.pup.princeton.edu/titles/6966.html

September 21, 8:00 p.m., Performing Arts Studio

Prema Bhat, Indian Classical Voice

Prema Bhat joined Emory's Department of Music in 1997 and now directs the Carnatic music program. Bhat's ability to combine her melodius voice with the technical aspects of indian classical music makes her a top vocalist of her generation. Tickets are free for Emory University and Oxford College graduate and undergraduate students. Tickets are $10 at the Emory Box office (404) 727-5050.

September 24, 7:30 p.m., Glenn Memorial

Academic Freedom in Times of War

Introduction - Dr. Devin Stewart The Myth of the Authentic Voice - Dr. Gordon Newby, MESAS and Director of the Institute for Comparative and International Studies Funding and Free Speech in South Asian Studies: Tales From the Front, Dr. Laure Patton, Chair, Religion Interpreting the Bible Through Archaeology: Who Has The Last Word? - Dr. Oded Borowski, MESAS Seven Words You Cannot Say in Science Lecture - Dr. Benjamin Freed - Anthropology Tenure, Politics, and the Judicial System - Dr. Kristen Brustad - MESAS Cold War Academic Politics: Lessons From the Past - Dr. Shalom Goldman - MESAS What kinds of cultural/political "wars" are being fought over who has the right to speak for a discipline, and the role of "special interest" groups in influencing the faculty and curriculum at universities? Does academic freedom mean the freedom to hear only what we want to hear? Should the government play a role in the university, and should the universtiy play a role in the government in time of war or peace? What is the state of academic freedom today, and how does it compare to the past? Sponsored by Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, for more information please contact Alta Schwartz, 404-727-2576, atla@emory.edu

 

October

November

November 5, 7:00 p.m., Michael C. Carlos Museum

Panel Discussion: "Displaying Violence: Museums and the Politics of Representation"

This panel will be held in conjunction with "A Long Look Homeward," the photo exhibition at Schatten Main Gallery. Panelists will consider this show in the comparative context of other exhibitions that display extreme violence, trauma, and/or human rights abuses, including the Holocaust in Europe and lynchings in the United States. Theoretical and political issues surrounding the exhibiting of culture will also be discussed. Panelists include Deborah Lipstadt, Ivan Karp, Randall Burkett, and Michael Ginguld. Moderator will be Bonnie Speed, Director, Michael C. Carlos Museum. For directions please visit the Carlos Museum at http://www.carlos.emory.edu/INFORMATION/directions.html Emory-Tibet Partnership , for more information please contact Martha Shockey, Asian Studies Program, 404-727-6280.

November 7, 7:00 p.m., White Hall, Room 111

Emptiness and Actuality: Physics and the Middle Way David Ritz Finkelstein, Georgia Institute of Technology, Department of Physics

David Ritz Finkelstein is a physicist at Georgia Tech working on the confluence of quantum theory, general relativity and elementary particles. He will discuss dialogues with the Dalai Lama on science. For more information contact Martha Shockey, Asian Studies Program, 404-727-6280, mshocke@emory.edu - This event is part of Tibet Awareness Month, please visit The Emory-Tibet Partnership website for more information.

November 10, 4 p.m., White Hall, Room 206

"Tales From Post-Independence India: the Artist and Memory", Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri has written four novels. His latest publication is Real Time, a collection of short stories. His prizes and awards include first prize in the Society of Authors’ Betty Trask Awards, the Commonwealth Writers’s Prize for best first book, the Southern Arts Literature Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction 2000. Choudhuri is one of London Observer’s 21 writers of the Millenium and the Knoff Omnibus edition of Freedom Song was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. An accomplished vocalist as well, he divides his time between Britain and Bombay. This event is sponsored by the Emory Asian Studies Program, English Department, Creative Writing Program, The Hightower Fund and the Bengali Association of Greater Atlanta. For more information on this event please contact Asian Studies at 404-727-6280 or by email at mshocke@emory.edu The lecture is free and open to the public.

November 10, Tate Room and Galleries Workshop for Children

Masks of the Indian Gods Indian religious festivals are known as spectacles of variety and spirit. Join us as we celebrate this spirit with a tour of the Museum's exhibition The Art of India and the Himalayas. We will explore Hindu veneration of gods and goddesses while viewing spectacular Hindu temple sculpture, and then create festival masks inspired by Indian designs. For children ages 8 through 12. Fee: $10 for Museum members, $15 for non-members. Pre-registration required. Walk-ins welcome if space is available. Class size limited to 15 children.

For more information contact Elizabeth Hornor, Director of Education, Michael C. Carlos Museum, ehornor@emory.edu

November 12, 7-9 p.m., Jones Room, Woodruff Library

Building Bridges, Crossing Borders:Tibet Related Research

Participants Leigh Miller (ILA), David Buxton (Religion), Samit Shah (Asian Studies), and exchange student Tsondue Sampel (Physics) will present research done in Dharamsala, Tibetan settlements in South India, Ladakh, and Lhasa. Topics include trauma experienced by adolescents escaping from Chinese-held Tibet, the translation of modern scientific works and concepts into Tibetan, and the views of Indian government officials on the Tibetan refugee issue. Please join us for the inspiring work of our future leaders in international affairs. For more information please contact Martha Shockey, Asian Studies Program, 404-727-6280

November 14, 4:00-5:30 p.m. 4:30 pm – 5:45 pm Mathematics and Science Center (400 Dowman Dr), Room E-208

Music, Medicine, Modernity: Individual and Social Healings in a Rain Forest under Siege Marina Roseman, Pacifica Graduate Institute

Marina Roseman is Associate Professor, Core Faculty, and Clinical Research Coordinator at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, California, and a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University. Recipient of Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment of the Humanities, Fulbright Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Rockefeller Foundation, Asian Pacific Performance Exchange, Social Science Research Council, Wenner-Gren, and National Science Foundation, she has conducted research among the Temiars of peninsular Malaysia over a twenty-year period. Her publications include Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine (University of California, 1991; translated into Japanese, Shouwada Press, 2000), the co-edited volume Performance of Healing (Routledge, 1996), and the compact disc Dream Songs and Healing Sounds: In the Rainforests of Malaysia (Smithsonian-Folkways Recordings, 1995), as well as articles in Ethnomusicology, American Anthropologist, Social Science and Medicine, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Worlds of Music, Latin American Music Review, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and Ethos. A specialist in ethnomusicology, dance ethnology, medical anthropology, psychological anthropology, and anthropology of the arts, she has conducted research on indigenous arts and medical practices in Indonesia, Malaysia, and among Asian and Hispanic populations in the United States. Her international lectures this year have taken her to Hanoi, Vietnam and to Brazil. Her forthcoming book Engaging the Spirits of Modernity (i.p.,University of California Press) examines how indigenous peoples respond to their incorporation into colonial, nation-state, and global entities. In particular, she explores how religious, medical, and psychological dimensions of cultures are conjoined within musical performance by spirit mediums, medical practitioners, and contemporary artists as they grapple with the dynamic, ongoing tensions between "tradition" and "modernity This lecture is co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Program, Music Department, Center for Health, Culture, and Society, Center for the Study of Public Scholarship, Department of Anthropology, Department of Environmental Studies, and Vernacular Modernities Program. For more information contact Tong Soon Lee at tslee@emory.edu

November 16, 7:30 p.m., Cannon Chapel

Chaksampa

Chaksampa is a troupe of performers trained at the internationally renowned Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts in Dharamsala. Here at Emory they will be presenting an ensemble program of traditional Tibetan music and dance, as well as some of their contemporary pieces. Chaksampa has performed throughout North America, including at all four Tibetan Freedom concerts, the Smithsonian Museum Tibet Exhibition, House of Blues, and Carnegie Hall. Their awe-inspiring music has been featured in the film "Windhorse" and the IMAX movie "Everest." This is their first visit to Atlanta For more information on this event and other Tibetan Studies Events/Programs, please contact Martha Shockey, Asian Studies Program, 404-727-6280.

Tuesday, November 19, 7:00-9:30 p.m., White Hall 205

Documentary Film, "Shadow Circus" and talk by Jamyang Norbu

Drawing on interviews with both Tibetan guerrilla fighters and their CIA trainers, this award-winning documentary by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam (2000) chronicles the CIA-backed Tibetan resistance movement - code-named "ST Circus" -- from the mid-1950s to 1969. Following the showing, Jamyang Norbu, an internationally acclaimed author and one of the leading voices for Rangzen (Tibetan independence), will relate his own experiences in ST Circus and discuss how the invasion and colonization of Tibet and recent events in Afghanistan are both part of a larger geo-political struggle earlier termed "The Great Game." For more information on this event and other Tibetan Studies Events/Programs, please contact Martha Shockey, Asian Studies Program, 404-727-6280.

November 22, 7:00 p.m., Michael C. Carlos Museum Reception Room

"Across the Black Water: Writing in the Diaspora," Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. Her work is widely known, as she has been published in over 50 magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker. Her writing has been included in over 30 anthologies. Her works have been translated into 11 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew and Japanese. Recent titles of her fiction include The Unknown Errors of Our Lives, Sister of My Heart, The Vine of Desire, The Mistress of Spices, Neela: A Victory Song (her first children's book). For more information on Ms. Divakaruni visit her at http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/ Co-sponsored by the The Asian Studies Program,the Atlanta chapter of the South Asia Journalists Association, Emory Creative Writing Program, Emory English Department, The Hightower Fund, Friends Of Emory India Studies, Emory Indian Cultural Exchange, Bengali Association of Atlanta, and the Michael C. Carlos Museum. For more information please contact Martha Shockey, 404-727-6280. Books will be available to purchase at the event and Ms. Divakaruni will be available for signing. A reception will be held after the lecture.

 

November 23, 7:30 p.m., Glenn Memorial Church Auditorium, 1652 N. Decatur Road

Mystical Arts of Tibet: Sacred Music Sacred Dance for World Healing

The renowned monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will perform ancient temple music and dance for world healing. For more information on the monks and this remarkable sound and cultural experience visit http://www.drepung.org/Mystical.cfm Free admission with Emory ID. Advance tickets ($12) available by calling 404-816-5510, tickets at the door $15. For more information on this event, please contact Martha Shockey 404-727-6280. Sponsored by Emory-Tibet Partnership, Asian Studies Program, and Drepung Loseling Institute.

 

December

January

January 21, 12 noon, Michael C. Carlos Museum

"Food for Thought" lecture by Leigh Miller, Emory Institute of Liberal Arts

The Michael C. Carlos Museum invites you to Food for Thought, an informal lunchtime lecture presented by Emory faculty and graduate students, or Museum staff, focusing on works of art in the Museum's collections and exhibitions. On Tuesday, January 21, at 12 noon, Leigh Miller, a graduate student in Emory's Institute of Liberal Arts will discuss an 11th-century bronze statue of a seated Buddha from India recently acquired by the Museum. Bring a brown-bag lunch or purchase a boxed lunch from Caffe Antico featuring a gourmet sandwich, chips, and iced tea for $6. For more information please visit the Carlos at http://www.carlos.emory.edu

 

February

February 7, 8 PM, Schwartz Performing Arts Center

EMORY PERFORMS III: REVERBERATION

Brian Luckett, Guitar: Rodrigo, Fandango from Tres piezas espanolas Koshkin, Usher Waltz (after Edgar Allan Poe) Sasikala Penumarthi, Kuchipudi Dancer Emory Javanese Gamelan Ensemble: Steven Everett, conductor Traditional & Javanese, Gending Gambirsawit ketuk 2 kerep minggah 4, laras slendro Prema Bhat: Canatic vocals; Ram Sriram: Mridangam Dikshitar, Sri Lakshmi Varaham, Raga (melody): Abhogi Kakali Bandyopadhyay: Sitar Raga Bahar Emory Jazz Combo: Gary Motley, Director Program will be announced from stage Contact Arts at Emory Box Office at boxoffice@emory.edu to reserve your free tickets.

February 13, 7 p.m. White Hall, Room 110

Urdu Film Series In Custody (subtitled) Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of extinction as political trends and modernization obscure its contributions to Indian culture. Merchant 's treatment is wry and good humored , as his characters - an aging Urdu poet (Shashi Kapoor) and a worshipful young college lecturer - clash despite their shared passion for the beauty of words. Anita Desai adapted her novel with Shahrukh Husain, incorporating poems by Urdu author Faiz Ahmed Faiz. The movie won the President of India Gold Medal for Best Picture in 1994.

http://www.merchantivory.com/custody.html Sponsored by: MESAS Department Pakistan Student Association Refreshments will be provided

February 21, 2:00 p.m. Jones Room, Woodruff Library

BOLLYWOOD SINGS Screening of Hindi Film Love Songs and More with commentary by Dr. Tejaswini Ganti, Dept. of Anthropology, Haverford College

Sponsored by: Vernacular Modernities, Asian Studies, Pakistani Students Association, and the Hindu Students Council

February 26, Jones Room, Woodruff Library 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Dr. Gideon Doron, Professor of Political Science Tel Aviv University To discuss: Recent Israeli Elections And the Electoral Process in Israel

Dr. Doron teaches political science, public policy and political communication and strategy at Tel Aviv. He was twice elected as the President of the Israeli Political Science Association and is a twice-elected member of the Executive Board of The International Political Science Association. During the 1992 election he was Yitzhak Rabin's campaign strategist. In 1992-1993 he was a member of the National Security Team. Bring your lunch and participate in a discussion about the recent Israeli elections and the state of the Israeli electoral system. Sponsored by the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, and the Office of Academic Affairs of the Israeli Consulate.

February 27, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Emerson Concert Hall, 8 p.m.

Journeys Series and Emory Ensembles Emory Javanese Gamelan Ensemble

The Emory Javanese Gamelan Ensemble consists of sixteen to twenty musicians performing on a full set of instruments made by Pak Djumadi and Pak Tentrem of Surakarta, Java. The ensemble was formed in 1997 by Emory Department of Music chair Steven Everett and has performed for such dignitaries as His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. $10, students free with reservations. Information: 404.727.5050 and boxoffice@emory.edu

February 27, 7-9 p.m., White Hall 200

East Asian Culture Night

Emory's new East Asian Studies program is presenting an entertaining and educational evening where students can showcase their language skills and familiarity with East Asian cultures. For more information please contact Wan-Li Ho at who@emory.edu, 404-727-6427. Sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program, co-sponsored by Dept. of Russian and East Asian Languages and Culture.

February 28, 5-7:30 p.m., Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

Recent Works of the Visual Arts Faculty and From the Roof: Tibet Prints 2002 by Julia Kjelgaard

These exhibitions and receptions are free and open to the public. Please join us to celebrate the arts at Emory and the opening of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Receptions for both exhibitions will take place on Friday, February 29, from 5-7:30 p.m.

March

March 2, 2003, White Hall, Room 112, 4:30 p.m.

Romesh Gunesekera, Sri Lankan Author Lecture

Romesh Gunesekera, Sri Lankan author of the novel Reef, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994. His other books are Monkfish Moon, a collection of short stories, The Sandglass, a novel published in 1988, and most recently, a third novel, Heaven's Edge (2002).

March 3, 2003, White Hall 207, 7:30 p.m.

A Long and Winding Tail: Hanuman, Academic Scholars, and the Study of Hinduism Phillip Lutgendorf, University of Iowa. Lecture

Associate Professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies, Co-Chair, South Asian Studies Program, University of Iowa. Author of the book The Life of a Text: Tulsidas' Ramcaritmanas in Performance and articles on Hanuman--"Evolving a Monkey: Hanuman, Poster Art, and Postcolonial Anxiety" and "Five Heads and No Tale: Hanuman and the Popularization of Tantra."

March 4, Callaway C101, 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Searching for Enlightenment in China, A Slide Presentation of Temples in Xi'an Eric Reinders, Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Emory University

Sponsored by Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, For more information contact Rebecca Sapp at 404-727-6427 or rlsapp@emory.edu

March 6, 5-6:30 p.m., White Hall, Room 102

Gossamer Ladies: Impersonations of a 10th Century Japanese Woman Linda Chance, Writer, University of Pennsylvania

Who may speak as a woman? In the context of modern Japanese literature, male authors have often chosen to speak in female voices, impersonating women both real and imagined. This talk will explore the implications of literary cross-dressing, focusing on some twentieth century males who chose to borrow the mantles of 10th century female predecessors. For information please contact Cheryl Crowley, 404 727-5087, ccrowle@emory.edu Free and open to the public.

March 17th, March 19th, and March 27th, 2003, Halle Institute Gambrell Hall (Law School Bldg. Corner of N. Decatur/Clifton, Suite 150

Dr. Sona Khan, Prominent Attorney and Indian Women's Rights Activist

A prominent attorney before the Indian Supreme Court, and columnist for Indian Express, The Hindu, and the Hindustan Times, Dr. Sona Khan is renowned in India and beyond for her work on women's rights. She was instrumental in the Shahbano case, which pitted a Muslim woman against her former husband and raised the issue of how to weigh a woman's rights to maintenance after divorce against India's separation of civil and religious law. Dr. Khan has also worked to end child prostitution. The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning is pleased to announce that Dr. Khan will be in residence at Emory University, March 17-28, 2003 as Halle Distinguished Fellow. In addition to interactions with students and faculty around Emory and Atlanta-area institutions, Dr. Khan will deliver a series of lectures at the Halle Institute: Women and Law in South Asia, March 17, 2003 Muslim Law in South Asia, March 19, 2003 Child Trafficking, March 27, 2003 All lectures: 4:30-6 p.m., Halle Institute, Gambrell Hall (Law School Bldg --corner of N. Decatur and Clifton Roads), suite 150. For more information on Dr. Khan's lectures, please contact The Halle Institute at http://www.emory.edu/OIA/Halle/ or by calling 404-727-7504.

March 23, 2003, Tull Auditorium, Emory Law School, 3 p.m.

Sheth Lecturer: Ashutosh Varshney Hindu-Muslim Violence: Gujarat Riots in Perspective

Ashutosh Varshney is Associate Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan. His most recent book is Ethnic Conflict and Civic Llfe: Hindus and Muslims in India (2002). His research and teaching cover ethnicity and nationalism, political economy of development, and South Asian politics and political economy. He has received fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, Ford Foundation, U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has also been a consultant to the World Bank, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Human Rights Watch, the U.S. Department of State, and Department For International Development, U.K.. Prior to going to Michigan, he has taught at Harvard (1989-98), Columbia (1998-99) and Notre Dame (1999-2001). For more information on Mr. Varshney please visit his web site at http://polisci.lsa.umich.edu/faculty/avarshney.html Sponsored by The Sheth Lecture in Indian Studies, The Asian Studies Program and The Hightower Fund. This event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Asian Studies Program at 404-727-6280 or mshocke@emory.edu

March 24, 2003, Cannon Chapel Building, Room 106

Daniel T. Linger, Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. California, Santa Cruz "Small World, Big Identities"

Dr. Linger will look at the ways that as the world shrinks, people expand. He suggests that more or less coherent selves, grounded in substantially unique biographical trajectories, elaborate and personalize national and ethnicidentities as they move through a transnational world. Such identity constellations are not simply a product of post-modern external forces, but are the creations of self-conscious selves in a global environment. The lecture will foucs on Brazilian migrants to Japan. Sponsored by: Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, Vernacular Modernities Program, Asian Studies, Hightower Lecture Fund, GSAS Quadrangle Seminar Fund. For additional information contact: Juana Clem McGhee, 404-727-6959, jmcghee@emory.edu

April

April 3, 2003 Glenn Memorial Church Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche Turning the Mind Into An Ally

Talk, guided meditation and book signing with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, the leader and principal teacher of Shambhala International. He is the son and spiritual heir of Trungpa Rinpoche the founder of Shambhala International. Tickets are $10 at the door or may be reserved by calling 404-370-9650. Sponsored by The Emory Tibet Partnership of Emory University and The Sahambhala Meditation Center of Atlanta. For more information on this talk please call 404-370-9650 or email info@atlantashambhalacenter.org

 

April 4, 2003, Performing Arts Studio, 1804 N. Decatur Road, 8:00 p.m.

An Evening of Ghazal- Featuring Taswar Khan and Neeraj Sharma

The most popular form of Urdu poetry, the ghazal is a short poem rarely of more than a dozen couplets in the same metre. Although the ghazal deals with the whole spectrum of human experience, its central concern is love. Ghazal originated in Iran in the 10th century A.D. It grew from the Persian qasida, a verse form which had come to Iran from Arabia. The ghazal came to India with the advent and extension of the Muslim Influence during the 12th century. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by Asian Studies, the Emory Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, the Gustafson Faculty Seminar, and Institute for Comparative and International Studies. For more information please contact mshocke@emory.edu or 404-727-6280. .

April 4th-6th, Locations listed with event

Regions Unframed: A Symposium of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies

The Middle East and South Asia have historically been studied as distinct regions in the academy despite rich loci of convergence and comparison. Geographical, political, and cultural boundaries between the regions have been permeable and negotiable historically as well as in the present. The Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies of Emory University is pleased to announce “Regions Unframed: A Symposium of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies,” that seeks to transcend traditional frames of inquiry and focus on integrative and comparative approaches between the regions instead. To be held April 4th to 6th, 2003, the Symposium will bring together leading scholars whose works transcend boundaries of discipline and area in unique ways. It is our honor that Dr. Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University, will be making the Keynote address. As a celebration of our own new configuration as the Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Department, we hope the symposium will provide exciting new directions for future work. PANEL I : NETWORKS Over land and oceanic routes, people, materials, ideas, and beliefs, make the crossing, thus rendering the boundaries blurrier and bringing the two regions closer together. In the past as well as today, economic, social, and religious networks have straddled the divides and occupied both spheres as well as the liminal space in between. By examining the formation, functions, and proliferation of such networks, this panel focuses on commonalities, adaptations, differences, and change through time, and reassesses our understanding of the two regions as separate. Richard Eaton (University of Arizona), Roxani Margariti (Emory University), Samer Traboulsi (Princeton University) PANEL II: CROSSROADS OF IDENTITIES The papers on this panel will identify and explore South Asian cultural sites-- crossroads -- where diverse traditions (in particular, Muslim and Hindu traditions) meet, interact, and influence each other. Joyce Flueckiger (Emory University), Tony Stewart (North Carolina State University), Diana Dimitrova (Emory University) KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “In search of the signs of Allah: Pilgrimage from South Asia to the Middle East during Colonial Rule” Sugata Bose (Harvard University) ROUNDTABLE I: TEXT AND CONTEXT This roundtable is envisioned as a discussion identifying both common ground and contrast among the central textual traditions of diverse South Asian and Middle Eastern cultures. Taking inspiration from the recent work of Edward Said, we will explore the problems of situating and interpreting texts, recognizing the need for a re-integration of cultural studies and philology. Nadine Berardi (Emory University), Waqas Khwaja (Agnes Scott College), V.Narayana Rao (University of Wisconsin), Kristen Brustad (Emory University) ROUNDTABLE II: COMPARATIVE METHODOLOGIES This roundtable will address issues of method and ways to conceptualize comparative approaches to study of the Middle East and South Asia. Laurie Patton (Emory University), Richard Eaton (University of Arizona), Vernon Robbins (Emory University) Regions Unframed, Emory University, April 4-6 Symposium Schedule Friday, April 4 (Performing Arts Studio) 8:00 pm Concert: “An Evening of Ghazal” with Taswar Khan and Neeraj Sharma Saturday, April 5 (Jones Room) 8:30 am light breakfast 9:00 am Panel I : Networks A. Richard Eaton (University of Arizona) B. Roxani Margariti (Emory University) C. Samer Traboulsi (Princeton University) 10:45 am break 11:00 am Panel II: Crossroads of Identities A. Joyce Flueckiger (Emory University) B. Tony Stewart (North Carolina State) C. Diana Dimitrova (Emory University) 12:30pm lunch 2:00 pm Keynote Address: Sugata Bose (Harvard University) 3:15 pm break 3:30 pm Roundtable: Text and Context A. Nadine Berardi (Emory University) B. Kristen Brustad (Emory University) C. Waqas A. Khwaja (Agnes Scott) D. V. Narayana Rao (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 6:00 pm Dinner Sunday, April 6 (Callaway Center S423) 9:00 am breakfast 9:30 am Roundtable: Comparative Methodologies A. Laurie Patton and Shalom Goldman (Emory University) B. Vernon Robbins (Emory University) C. Richard Eaton (University of Arizona), moderator

 

April 5th, 2003 Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, 8:00 p.m.

Trichy Sankaran, Mridangam CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER IN TORONTO

TRICHY SANKARAN, mridangam Suba Sankaran, kanjira Journeys concert series T. Sankaran, arr. S. Sankaran, Carnatic Concerto Piano, mrudangam, and kanjira The Concerto was originally commissioned and written by Trichy Sankaran for the Ensemble Mondetta Chamber Orchestra in Winnipeg, Canada. Bios: Trichy Sankaran Trichy Sankaran is a world renowned percussion virtuoso. Born in the year 1942, he had his early musical training first under his cousin the late Sri P. A. Venkataraman, and later became the star disciple of the legendary mrudangam maestro the late Sri Palani Subramania Pillai. Since making his debut at the age of thirteen, he has performed with all the leading musicians of India. While representing the Palani style, Sankaran has given new dimensions to the art of the mrudangam and has created a style of his own. Sankaran is the cofounder of Indian music studies at York University, Toronto. He came to York University in 1971 along with the late Jon B. Higgins, and has built up a highly respected program in South Indian music. As professor of music and an artist of international repute, Sankaran has made a contribution of unique range and scope to the Canadian artistic community and the North American musical culture. He is the founder of Kalalayam, an institution created for the promotion of science and techniques of percussive arts. His achievements as a performer, composer, academic scholar and musical educator have placed him at the pinnacle of his field. Recognized on the world stage for his astounding rhythmic virtuosity and for his compositional skills, Sankaran ranks as a musician of great distinction. He has won many awards in India and Canada for his artistic excellence. The University of Victoria honored him with a doctorate in music for his outstanding achievements in the academic and professional fields. He has long been active as a top-flight performer, both within his Karnatak tradition, and in collaborations with noted ensembles in the new music, world music and jazz fields. He has also appeared in jugalbandhis (special combos) with top-ranking tabla players. He has given numerous solo recitals on mrudangam and kanjira throughout North America and abroad and is foremost among mrudangam players who has elevated the drum to the rare status of a solo instrument. Suba Sankaran Suba Sankaran is a Toronto-based freelance vocalist, pianist, percussionist, choral director, university educator, and private teacher. Her long and varied musical career began at an early age by studying South Indian music with her father, world-renowned percussionist, Trichy Sankaran. She then trained as a classical singer and pianist, attending the Claude Watson School for the Arts in Toronto. There she discovered jazz and other contemporary musics, as well as conducting, composing, and arranging music, and she began performing professionally. A masters graduate from York University, she performs with many different groups in Canada and around North America. She performs with Trichy’s Trio, sings Renaissance vocal music with Voyces Past, and collaborates with her husband Dylan Bell in the eclectic Free Play Duo. She conducts workshops and arranges music for several choirs in Canada. Presented by The Emory Music Department. Venue:Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall(new performaing arts center) Date& time:April 5th,8:00 PM Tickets required: $10.00 call Emory Box office for tickets and direction at 404-727-5050 Please note:there is a lecture demonstration(FREE) by the artists at 3.30 at the Emerson hall at the Schwartz center.

April 6, 2003 4-6 p.m. Jones Room, Woodruff Library

Mushaira Goshthi - A Literary Gathering

Mushairaor Goshthi-a Literary Gathering Inherently interactive, "Mushaira" or "Goshthi" meetings are literary gatherings at which participants recite, or even sing, poems for an audience that participates by anticipating the rhyme scheme, joining in the refrain, or simply appreciating the performance vocally through customary interjections. Performers—for indeed skilful elocution or recitation is seen as a performance rather than simply a reading—may recite either their own poetry or well known pieces from within the tradition. Such gatherings celebrate creativity as much as they do literary appreciation or connaisseurship, both of which must be performed with equal skill. Sponsored by the Asian Studies Program and the Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Program. For more information on the club please visit the web site: http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Goshthi-Mushaira.html

April 7, 2003, 4-5:30 p.m.Music Department, Burlington Road Building, 1804 N. Decatur Road, Room 107

Contemporary Music in Japan: Negotiating the Future Bonnie C. Wade Professor of Music University of California, Berkeley

Bonnie Wade is a world-renowned musicologist specializing in Japanese and Indian music. With degrees from Boston University and UCLA, Bonnie Wade has held professorial positions at Brown University and the University of California, Berkeley, and also served as Chair, Dean of Undergraduate Services, and Chair of the Deans at Berkeley. Among her numerous achievements was her recent appointment as President of the Society for Ethnomusicology from 1999-2001. She has lectured widely in Asia and Europe and many of her publications remain core texts in the field of ethnomusicology, such as Music in India: The Classical Traditions (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1979) and Khyal: Creativity Within North India's Classical Musical Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984). She has published a book on Japanese music titled, Tegotomono: Music for the Japanese Koto (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1976), and her most recent monograph, Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998) probes the disciplinary boundaries of musicology to examine the significance of music and art in the historical Indian Mughal dynasty. Current work-in-progress include a monograph on contemporary music in Japan and a series of textbooks on the teaching of world music. In honor of her scholarship and teaching at Berkeley, Bonnie Wade was named the Jerry and Evelyn Hemmings Chambers Chair in Music in 1998. For more information please contact Tong Soon Lee, tslee@emory.edu

April 10, 2003 4:30 p.m., Rollins School of Public Health, Room 860

Shigehisa Kuriyama, Ph.D., International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan Money and the Body

Shigehisa Kuriyama is Associate Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto. He received his Ph.D. in the History of Science from Harvard University, and taught previously at the University of New Hampshire, and at the Institute of Liberal Arts of Emory University. In 2001, his book , The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (Zone Books, 1999) wa awarded the William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine. About the talk: "In our everyday conception of the world, money and the body seem entirely disparate sorts of things. We associate the former with inanimate and insentient coins and bills. We identify ourselves with living, sensitive flesh, and perhaps a soul. Medicine in Edo period Japan compels us to rethink such divisions, offering the example of a culture where the diagnosis, treatment, and experience of sickness are all entwined with the imagination and life of money." Sponsored by Center for Health, Culture, and Society and The Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts.

April 12, 2002, White Hall, Room 208, 5:30 p.m.

Ravikiran - Chitraveena, Deepak Murthy - Violin, Ram Sriram - Mridangam

The featured performer Ravikran is a child prodigy and one of the most acclaimed Chitraveena players, musicians, and composers today. He is rated among the top instrumentalists in the world today. Ravikiran has performed in most of the major institutions, festivals, and music organizations across the world. He has collaborated with specialists of Jazz, African, Pop, South American, Chinese, and Middle Eastern music. Sponsored by Carnatic Music Association of Georgia (CAMAGA) and the Program in Asian Studies. Suggested donations for non-members only: Individuals:$15, Family: $30, Students: $5. For more information please contact camaga@bellsouth.net or www.camaga.org

April 16, White Hall 480 Kilgo Circle, Room 205

Yamini Atmavilas, Graduate Student, Emory Institute for Women's Studies Laboring for Love/Labor of Love: Gender, Generation and Caste in Factory Politics in South India

Women's Studies Spring 2003 Colloquium Series, sponsored by the Emory Institute for Women's Studies. For more informaiton contact Berky Abreu at (404) 727-0095 or babreu@emory.edu - The event is free and open to the public.

April 13, White Hall 207, 7:00 p.m.

Dr. Manoucher Parvin Dardedel: Rumi, Hafez & Love in New York: Classical Persian Poetry Encounters Modernity

Dr. Manoucher Parvin presents his latest novel About the author: Professor Manoucher Parvin has published two previous novels: Avicenna and I: The Journey of Spirits and Cry For My Revolution, Iran. He has also published poems, short stories and numerous scholarly articles on various subjects in the social sciences. His latest projects include a new novel, Fear of Truth, and a collection of poems, Cosmological Accent. Professor Parvin received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and taught there for several years. He has been a visiting Professor at Emory University since 1999. Sunday, April 13, 2003 7:00 pm White Hall 207 light refreshments served Sponsored by the Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Dept. for more information please contact Loretta Anderson at 404-727-2670 or lande04@emory.edu

April 18, 2003, WSHCAB

Jhalak 2003: A Glimpse of Pakistani Culture Dr. Sara Suleri Goodyear, Professor at Yale University

Jhalak 2003: A Glimpse of Pakistani Culture Keynote speaker: Dr. Sara Suleri Goodyear, Professor at Yale University "Toba Tek Singh": A Peculiar Play about the Partition of British India by Saadat Hasan Munto and Adapted by Omer Khwaja Dance Performances by Karma & Shezi Sardar Fashion Shows, Ghazals, Poetry, and Much More! 7:00pm, WSHCAB Produced by the Pakistani Students Association at Emory University. Sponsored by the Dept. of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, The Office of Multicultural Programs, Department of Comparative Literature, and the Dept. of Asian Studies. For directions or more information, call Omar Babar, 404.550.0096.

May

May 17, White Hall 205, Emory University, 7:30 PM

"Bawandar" (Sandstorm), Festival of Classic Indian Films, May 17-23,

Bawandar (Sandstorm) (Jag Mundhra, director, 2001, in Hindi and Rajasthani with English subtitles, color, 120 minutes) Sandstorm is an eloquent, visually stunning drama about the miscarriage of justice in a village outside Jaipur. Based on real events, it featues a riveting performance by Nandita Das (Fire, Earth) as Saanvri, a low caste woman wo works for a government-spon sored women’s program. Her activism rankles the community leaders who beat her husband and gang rape her in his presence. But Saanvri refuses to be silenced or to play the shamed victim, and with her spouse’s support she takes on a corrupt judicial system. Director Jag Mundhra will speak briefly before and after the film. There will be a $5.00 per person admission charge for this event only. All films will be shown in DVD format (except for Bawandar, which will be in 35mm) in White Hall 205 at 7:30 PM All films are in Hindi with English subtitles Sponsored by the Film Studies Program, the Asian Studies Program, the Georgia-Indo American Chamber of Commerce, and the Halle Institute for Global Learning. For more information please call 404-727-6761.

May 19, White Hall 205, Emory University, 7:30 PM

"Awara" (The Tramp), Festival of Classic Indian Films, May 17-23

(Raj Kapoor, director, 1951, black & white, 193 minutes) Having built his won studio at Chembur in Bombay with the profits of Barsaat (1949), Kapoor launched his most famous film collaborating with the unit most closely associated with his work: scenarists Abbas and Sathe, song-writers Shailendra and Hasrat, art director Achrekar, cameraman Karmakar and composers Shankar-Jaikishen. Set in Bombay, the plot concerns Raju (Kapoor), the estranged son of Judge Raghunath (P. Kapoor), who finds a surrogate father in the criminal Jagga (Singh), the dacoit who caused Raju’s mother (Chitnis) to be thrown out of her home. All films will be shown in DVD format (except for Bawandar, which will be in 35mm) in White Hall 205 at 7:30 PM All films are in Hindi with English subtitles Sponsored by the Film Studies Program, the Asian Studies Program, the Georgia-Indo American Chamber of Commerce, and the Halle Institute for Global Learning. For more information please call 404-727-6761.

May 20, White Hall 205, Emory University, 7:30 PM

Bharat Mata (Mother India), Festival of Classic Indian Films, May 17-23

(Mehbob Khan, director, 1957, color, 168 minutes) This film has acquired the status of an Indian Gone With the Wind (1939), massively successful and seen as a national epic, although formally the film’s rhythms and lyrical rualism seem closer to Dovzhenko’s later work finished by Yulia Solntseva. The film is a remake in color and with drastically different imagery of Mehboob’s own Aurat (1940), notably in the heavy use of psychoanalytic and other kinds of symbolism (the peasants forming a chorus outlining a map of India). All films will be shown in DVD format (except for Bawandar, which will be in 35mm) in White Hall 205 at 7:30 PM All films are in Hindi with English subtitles Sponsored by the Film Studies Program, the Asian Studies Program, the Georgia-Indo American Chamber of Commerce, and the Halle Institute for Global Learning. For more information please call 404-727-6761.

May 21, White Hall 205, Emory University, 7:30 PM

Kaagaz ke Phool (Paper Flowers), Festival of Classic Indian Films, May 17-23

(Guru Dutt, director, 1959, black & white, 153 minutes) The commercial failure of this film on its initial release prompted Guru Dutt, by some accounts, to stop taking directorial credit for his films. The baroque, quasi-autobiographical fantasy has over time become his best-known film next to Pyaasa (1957) and could be regarded as India’s equivalent of Citizen Kane (1941). It tells, in flashback, the story of Suresh Sinha (Dutt), a famous film director. Brilliantly rendered by V. K. Murthy’s astonishing CinemaScope camerawork, the film dramatizes the conflict between open and constricted spaces, between spaces controlled by the director and spaces constraining him. All films will be shown in DVD format (except for Bawandar, which will be in 35mm) in White Hall 205 at 7:30 PM All films are in Hindi with English subtitles Sponsored by the Film Studies Program, the Asian Studies Program, the Georgia-Indo American Chamber of Commerce, and the Halle Institute for Global Learning. For more information please call 404-727-6761.

May 22, White Hall 205, Emory University, 7:30 PM

"Sholay" (Flames of the Sun), Festival of Classic Indian Films, May 17-23

Massively popular adventure film shot in 70mm. India’s best-known “curry” western patterned on Italian westerns with admixtures of romance, comedy, feudal costume drama and musicals. In addition, it is peppered with elements frome.g. Burt Kennedy, Sam Peckinpah, Chaplin and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). The revenge plot has two adventurous crooks, Veeru (Dhaarmendra) and Jaidev (Bachchan) who are hired by ex-cop Thakur Baldev Singh (Kumar) to hunt down the dreaded dacoit Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan) who massacred Thakur’s family. All films will be shown in DVD format (except for Bawandar, which will be in 35mm) in White Hall 205 at 7:30 PM All films are in Hindi with English subtitles Sponsored by the Film Studies Program, the Asian Studies Program, the Georgia-Indo American Chamber of Commerce, and the Halle Institute for Global Learning. For more information please call 404-727-6761.

May 23, White Hall 205, Emory University, 7:30 PM

Zubeidaa (The Story of a Princess), Festival of Classic Indian Films, May 17-23

Shyam Benegal, director, 2001, color, 145 minutes) Zubeidaa is the story of a young man Riyaz’s (Rajit Kapur) quest to recover the memory of his mother Zbeidaa, a mother who he never knew and to piece together her life from the memories of those who knew her. Extremely beautiful and talented, Zubeidaa (Karisma Kapoor) is the only daughter of Suleman Seth (Amrish Puri_, a film producer in Bompay. Unfortunately Zubeidaa’s happiness more often than not falls victim to her father’s unjustified domination over her life. All films will be shown in DVD format (except for Bawandar, which will be in 35mm) in White Hall 205 at 7:30 PM All films are in Hindi with English subtitles Sponsored by the Film Studies Program, the Asian Studies Program, the Georgia-Indo American Chamber of Commerce, and the Halle Institute for Global Learning. For more information please call 404-727-6761.

June

June 7th, 5:00 p.m. White Hall, Room 208

Ganesh and Kumaresh and party (Dual Violin)

Ganesh and Kumaresh started as soloists and continue perform as soloists for the last 28 years. The violin duo have released several music albums. They have toured the US several times. Sponsored by Carnatic Music Association of Georgia (CAMAGA) and the Program in Asian Studies.

 

 

 

 

 

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