| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, October 22, 2010 | 6:00PM - 8:00PM | The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place |
“The Asian Futures Project” at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs
An influential social-cultural anthropologist and reader of the global, Arjun Appadurai is Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. He has held prominent positions at many major research universities, having served most recently as Senior Advisor for Global Initiatives as well as the Provost for Academic Affairs at The New School, New York City. Previously, he held professorial chairs at Yale University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Pennsylvania, and visiting appointments at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), the University of Michigan, the University of Iowa, and Columbia University. Known for theorizing the “scapes” of global cultural flows, he has authored numerous books and scholarly articles including Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (2006, Duke University Press) and Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, (1996, University of Minnesota Press; 1997, Oxford University Press, Delhi).
Appadurai is one of the founding editors, along with Carol A. Breckenridge, of the award-winning journal Public Culture. He is also founder and President of PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research), a non-profit organization based in and oriented to the city of Mumbai, and has served as a consultant or advisor to a wide range of public and private organizations, among them The Ford and Rockefeller Foundations; UNESCO; UNDP; and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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