From shekhar at MIT.EDU  Sat Oct  7 13:10:43 2006
From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan)
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:10:43 -0400
Subject: [Urban-Media] Talk by Shahid Amin on Wednesday
Message-ID: <1160241044.14399.195.camel@localhost>

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> From: South Asia Initiative <sainit at fas.harvard.edu>
> Reply-To: sainit at fas.harvard.edu
> To: undisclosed-recipients : ;
> Subject: MAKING OF THE LINGUISTIC SURVEY OF INDIA, C. 1890-1920 by
> SHAHID AMIN, Wed. Oct. 11th, 4:00-6:00pm, CGIS S050
> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:19:30 -0400
> 
> Dear SAI friend,
> We hope you will be able to join us for next Wednesday's talk, the 
> details of which are below:
> 
> MAKING OF THE LINGUISTIC SURVEY OF INDIA, c. 1890-1920
> 
> A seminar by
> SHAHID AMIN
> 
> Professor of History,
> the University of Delhi
> 
> Wednesday, Oct. 11th
> CGIS South Building, Room S050,
> 1730 Cambridge Street
> 4:00 ? 6:00 pm
> 
> SHAHID AMIN received his D.Phil. from Oxford University and is currently 
> Professor of History at the University of Delhi. Among his publications 
> are Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992 (1995) and Writing 
> Alternative Histories: A View from India (2002). He is the editor of A 
> Concise Encyclopaedia of North Indian Peasant Life (2005), the 
> co-editor, with Gyan Pandey, of Nimnvargiya Itihas, Bhag Ek, Bhag Do 
> (1994, 2001), and has also written the Hindustani dialogues of the 
> feature film Karvan, directed by Pankaj Butalia.
> 
> Further details and a poster for the event are available here: 
> http://www.sainit.fas.harvard.edu/101106%20Shahid%20Amin.pdf
> 
> We hope you can join us for this exciting event.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Ian Jackson
> 
-- 

Shekhar Krishnan
400, West 119th Street, Apt.10D
New York, NY 10027
U.S.A.

http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar
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From shekhar at MIT.EDU  Sat Oct  7 13:14:50 2006
From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan)
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:14:50 -0400
Subject: [Urban-Media] Paper by Thomas Bender
Message-ID: <1160241291.14399.200.camel@localhost>

Folks:

Have a look at this seminar paper by Thomas Bender on "History, Theory
and the Metropolis". See below for the seminar this Friday in New York. 

http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/bender_metropolis.pdf

If anyone plans to come down to the city for this, we should also go and
see Lage Raho Munna Bhai, the most brilliant comedy to come out in
years, and the harbinger of a new youth politics. It is playing in Times
Square. 



S.K.

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: icas at nyu.edu <icas at nyu.edu>
> Date: Oct 6, 2006 1:01 PM 
> Subject: ICAS Friday Seminar: Oct 13, Thomas Bender
> To: ICAS Seminar <icasseminar at forums.nyu.edu>
> 
>                                     
>                                   []
>                                    
>                                    
>               International Center for Advanced Studies 
>                             Friday Seminar
>                                    
>                            October 13, 2006
>                              10am ? 12pm
>                          (followed by lunch)
>                                    
>                    Thomas Bender, Director of ICAS 
>                       Department of History, NYU
>                  "History, Theory and the Metropolis"
> 
>                                    
>  The seminar paper is attached as a PDF.  The paper is to be read in
> advance; copies of the paper are available at ICAS office, room #401E.
> If you wish the paper mailed, please contact ICAS, at icas at nyu.edu or
>                             212-998-3770.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> International Center for Advanced Studies
> 53 Washington Square South, 401E
> New York, NY 10012-1098
> Tel. (212) 998-3770
> Fax: (212) 995-4546
>                                                               

> 
-- 

Shekhar Krishnan
400, West 119th Street, Apt.10D
New York, NY 10027
U.S.A.

http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar
http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar
http://www.goosebumpgraphics.org



From shekhar at MIT.EDU  Sun Oct  8 15:03:59 2006
From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan)
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:03:59 -0400
Subject: [Urban-Media] Tuesday
Message-ID: <1160334239.17926.3.camel@localhost>

Dear All:

We will meet for our first session this semester this TUESDAY 10 OCTOBER
in MIT Building E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) at 6.30 p.m. to
discuss these texts:

Primary Texts

Patrick Geddes, Selection from "Cities in Evolution" from Marshall
Stalley, ed., Patrick Geddes: Spokesman for Man and the Environment, New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1972. 
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/geddes/cities_in_evolution.pdf

Ramachandra Guha, "Patrick Geddes and Ecological Town Planning in India"
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/geddes/guha_talk.pdf

Hellen Meller, "Urbanisation and the Introduction of Modern Town
Planning Ideas in India, 1900-1925"
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/geddes/meller_indian_town_planning.pdf


Secondary Texts

Geddes, Reports on Re-Planning of Six Towns in Bombay Presidency, 1915.
Bombay: Government of Maharashtra Urban Development and Public Health
Dept, 1965. 
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/geddes/bombay_1915.pdf

Geddes, Town Planning in Lucknow: A Report to the Municipal Council.
Lucknow: Murray's London Printing Press, 1916. 
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/geddes/lucknow_1916.pdf

Geddes, Report on Town Planning, Dacca. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat
Depot, 1917. 
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/geddes/dacca_1917.pdf

Geddes (with H.V. Lanchester), Town Planning in Jubbulpore: A Report to
the Municipal Committee. Jubbulpore: Hitkarini Press, 1917. 
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/geddes/jubbulpore_1917.pdf

Geddes, Town Planning towards City Development: A Report to the Durbar
of Indore. Indore: Holkar State Printing Press, 1918.
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/geddes/indore_1918.pdf


I will order vegetarian meals from the Guru for everyone at 6.00 p.m. in
the STS Reading Room. I have ordered six meals for myself, Eric, Nikhil,
Mike, and Ilham Khuri-Makdisi from Northeastern and Etienne Benson from
MIT who will be joining us. 


Best,


S.K.
-- 

Shekhar Krishnan
400, West 119th Street, Apt.10D
New York, NY 10027
U.S.A.

http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar
http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar
http://www.goosebumpgraphics.org