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South Asia Faculty Working Group
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Bauls, Bhakti, Beats and Bob: Tracing the Indian Oral Tradition in the Poetry and Songs of Ginsberg and Dylan
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1005 Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesPublic Lecture by Visiting Scholar Dr. Geetanjali Joshi "Bauls, Bhakti, Beats and Bob: Tracing the Indian Oral tradition in the poetry and songs of Ginsberg and Dylan." Dr. Geetanjali Joshi is from Lucknow, India and is currently a Fulbright Fellow at Portland … Read more
Mimetic Entanglements: Towards a Historical Anthropology of Lao-Vietnamese Borderlands
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe rugged Lao-Vietnamese borderlands have long been a zone of refuge and encounter, of conflict and exchange. This is particularly true for the early years of French colonial expansion, when local powerbrokers from diverse ethnic groups assessed, negotiated or resisted … Read more
Temple Tracks: Labour, Mobility, Piety
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 3009Dr. Vineeta is Professor of Sociology and Head of the South Asia Program at the National University of Singapore.
Subaltern Travel Narratives from the Indo-Tibetan Border Roads: A ‘From the Road’ Critique of Development and Defense
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThere is an urgency in the road building activity on India’s borders. These roads, we are told, will secure the nation and bring development to its peripheral areas. In this paper, I go deeper into the many layers, pieces and … Read more
Vicissitudes of Care: Humanitarian-Military Entanglements in Occupied Kashmir
Alumni Building, Room 308Saiba Varma’s research focuses on health and medicine, as well as politics, inequalities, and violence and has conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork in psychiatric and military settings. Her work examines the global military-humanitarian complex from the prism of South Asia, specifically … Read more
Desi (Basket)Ballers: Asian American Studies and The Politics of Difference
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe talk explores the relationship between race, masculinity, and class as South Asian American men play through their identities through South Asian American-only, Asian American-only, and multi-racial sporting circuits. This talk comes from Dr. Thangaraj’s book Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup … Read more
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