Worlds of the Contemporary Global: Approaches from the Centre For South Asian Studies Faculty
Friday, November 25th, 2011
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, November 25, 2011 | 9:30AM - 5:45PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
Description
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CSAS faculty discuss worlds—political, imaginative, ethical–inside/outside global space
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9:00-9:15 | Opening Remarks
Meric Gertler, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science
Joseph Wong, Director, Asian Institute
9:15-9:30 | Introduction: Global Designs & Designations
Ritu Birla, Director, Centre for South Asian Studies; Associate Professor, Department of History
9:45-11:45 | Visual Regimes, Technologies, Genealogies
The Aesthetics of Discrepant Globalization: Monumental Statues in Post-Liberalization India
Kajri Jain, Associate Professor, Visual Studies UTM & Department of Art
Indian Painted Photographs through a Transnational Lens: Reflections on the Status of the Photograph Today
Deepali Dewan, Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Art; Associate Curator South Asian Art, Royal Ontario Museum
Respondent: Elspeth Brown, Associate Professor, Department of History; Director, Centre for the Study of the United States
11:45-1:15 | LUNCH BREAK
1:30-3:30 | Political Circuits and Mediations
The Intimacy of Human and Animal
Nais Dave, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Media Modern: Echoes of the Street in a Tamil Newspaper
Frank Cody, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology UTM & the Asian Institute
Respondent: Joshua Barker, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
3:30-3:45 | BREAK
3:45-5:45 | Neoliberal Environments
Recycling Urban Commons: (Electronic) Waste, Value and Labor in Bangalore, India
Raj Narayanareddy, Assistant Professor, UTSC & Department of Geography & Program in Planning
Planning, Insurgent Publics and the Cultural Politics of Governance in ‘post-conflict’ Nepal
Katharine Rankin, Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Program in Planning
Respondent: Kanishka Goonewardena, Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Director, Program in Planning
6pm | RECEPTION
Munk School of Global Affairs, The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility
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