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Tenth Annual Global South Asia Conference: Justice on the Move. 23-24 Feb 2018

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Justice on the Move

Our tenth annual NYU Global South Asia conference theme is “Justice on the Move.”  The conference will be held at the Institute for Public Knowledge (20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor), on 23-24 February, 2018.  We will be focusing from a range of perspectives on interactions of justice and movement in South Asia, where the term “movement” evokes both mobility and mobilization, at many levels of scale, from the local to global. Justice struggles are ever present in South Asia, from social movements to legislative assemblies, court rooms to street protests, class rooms to NGO debates, newspapers to film, public and private, inside and outside the domains of official politics, audible in some registers and faint in others. In bringing together justice and movement, we want to foreground how justice travels within and across borders in and around South Asia, as ideas and ideals, as repertoires of practice, as solidarities and antagonisms, as expertise and professionalized networks. We want to approach this topic not only as a window into South Asia today, but also with historical and comparative perspectives.

HERE IS THE CONFERENCE WEBPAGE  

HERE IS A LINK TO THE POSTER

The Postcolonial, Race and Diaspora Studies Colloquium at NYU 

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The Postcolonial, Race and Diaspora Studies Colloquium at NYU 

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Identity Matters: What Makes Britain’s Anglo-Indians ‘Invisible’?

A Talk by Prof. Rochelle Almeida, NYU Liberal Studies

Despite the fact that India’s Anglo-Indians migrated en masse following Independence in 1947 and have spent 70 years as a settler community, they remain relatively unknown in the United Kingdom and scarcely counted among the South Asian diaspora. Prof. Almeida’s talk will address their trajectory from immigrants who faced hostility and rejection in the Post World War II era to a well-established and well-accepted ethnic minority in the multi-cultural environment of contemporary Britain. It will also analyze reasons for their invisibility and the cultural erasure this invisibility has engendered. 

Thursday 8th February, 2018
6 PM
Room 306
244 Greene Street 

Refreshments will be provided. 
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You can also contact us at alex.ramos@nyu.edu, rs5607@nyu.edu or sb5749@nyu.edu

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi. “From Sri Lanka to the World: Minnette De Silva, Architecture, and History.” Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 6:30pm Room 934, Schermerhorn Hall Columbia University

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Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi

From Sri Lanka to the World: Minnette De Silva, Architecture, and History

Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 6:30pm
Room 934, Schermerhorn Hall
Columbia University

Few careers lay open the complexities of architectural entanglements with gender, labor, and the politics of cultural heritage in the twentieth century as does that of Minnette De Silva (1918-1998): R.I.B.A. Associate, Sri Lanka Institute of Architects Gold Medalist, C.I.A.M. participant, and co-founder of the journal MARG. She combined progressive and revivalist thrusts together, from her student work in the 1940s at the Sir J.J. College of Architecture and the Architectural Association to later studies of Asian architecture for MARG, Ekistics, and Sir Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture. Her designs combined reinforced concrete technology and Surrealist composition techniques with Ceylonese arts and crafts and a gendered, village-based system of fabrication.

Zarina Hashmi Panel Discussion

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On the occasion of the exhibition Zarina: Dark Roads, we present a panel discussion on the life and work of the prolific Zarina Hashmi, the 2017-18 Artist-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Zarina: Dark Roads presents selected works of prints and sculpture across the expanse of three decades, and marks the 70th anniversary of the 1947 Partition of India, which resulted in one of the largest forced migrations in the history of the world. The grave and lasting impacts of war, colonialism, and division are at the center of Zarina’s work, which foregrounds the personal and the intimate.

Tansen Sen at New School 2 Oct 2017

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What Went Wrong with India-China Relations: A Historical Analysis

A TALK BY Tansen Sen,  Director of the Center for Global Asia; Professor of History, Global Network Professor, NYU Shanghai

October 2nd, 2017 6:30PM – 8:00PM

Orosco Room 66 West 12th Street Room A712

Tansen Sen received his MA from Peking University and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in Asian history and religions and has special scholarly interests in India-China interactions, Indian Ocean connections, and Buddhism. He is the author of Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino -Indian Relations, 600-1400 (2003; 2016) and India, China, and the World: A Connected History (2017).
RSVP at tansensen.eventbright.com

The Age of Empires: Comparisons and Interactions between East and West in Antiquity

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The NYU Center for Ancient Studies and The Institute for the Study of
the Ancient World, in conjunction with The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
will present a symposium on “The Age of Empires: Comparisons and
Interactions between East and West in Antiquity,” on April 6, 7, & 9,
2017.  It will take place in The Met’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.
This program is offered in association with the exhibition, “Age of
Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C. – A.D.
220),” at The Met.

For Information about the event, see

http://ancientstudies.fas.nyu.edu/object/Spring_2017_Age_of_Empires_Conference.html

URBAN HUMANITIES for GLOBAL ASIA

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URBAN HUMANITIES FACULTY JOB TALKS, with links to posters including abstracts

13 February: WINNIE WONG, “Speculative Authorship and the City of Fakes,” (on Hong Kong and Shenzhen)  6:30 PM Dept of Art History, Silver Center 300

27 February: PRITA MEIER, “Oceanic Urbanism,” (on urbanism along the Swahili coast) 6:30 PM Dept of Art History, Silver Center 300

6 March:  ANAND TANEJA, “Elsewhen in the City: Islam, Ecology, and Other Temporalities in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi,” 6:30 PM Dept of Art History, Silver 300