From i.khuri-makdisi at neu.edu  Mon Nov 13 19:28:51 2006
From: i.khuri-makdisi at neu.edu (i.khuri-makdisi@neu.edu)
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:28:51 -0500
Subject: [Urban-Media] TUESDAY: Delhi in Ruins
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Dear all,

Sorry, but I won't be able to make it tomorrow. I am absolutely swamped by
papers. sigh.

I wish you a good meeting and look forward to seeing you in a couple of
weeks.

Best,
Ilham


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Dear All:

We will meet for our next session on TUESDAY 14 NOVEMBER in MIT Building
E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) from 7.00-9.00 p.m. to discuss these
texts on the politics of medieval ruins and cultures of urban memory in
Delhi:

PRIMARY TEXTS

Anand Vivek Taneja, Columbia University, "The Archaeology of Myth: The Myth
of Archaeology: The Pasts and Present of the Purana Qila"
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/taneja_archaeology_myth.pdf

Anand Vivek Taneja, "History and Heritage Woven in the New Urban Fabric:
The Changing Landscapes of Delhi's 'First City', 1995-2005 (or, Who Can
Tell the Histories of Lado Sarai?)"
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/taneja_lado_sarai.pdf

SECONDARY TEXTS

Selections from Brinkley Messick, The Calligraphic State, Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1993, pp. 95-98 on 'endowments' and
pp.171-176 on 'shakwa'.
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/messick_calligraphic_state.pdf

C.A. Bayly, "Delhi and Other Cities of North India during the 'Twilight'"
in R.E. Frykenberg, ed., Delhi Through the Ages, reprinted in The Delhi
Omnibus, New Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 2002, pp.121-136
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/bayly_delhi_twilight.pdf

Narayani Gupta, "Delhi and Its Hinterland: The Nineteenth and Early
Twentieth Centuries" in R.E. Frykenberg, ed., Delhi Through the Ages,
reprinted in The Delhi Omnibus, New Delhi: Oxford University Press India,
2002, pp.137-156
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/gupta_delhi_and_hinterland.pdf

Naveeda Khan, "Of Children and Jinns: An Inquiry into an Unexpected
Friendship During Uncertain Times", Cultural Anthropology, May 2006
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/khan_children_jinn.pdf

Sunil Kumar, "A Medieval Reservoir and Modern Urban Planning: Local Society
and the Hauz-i-Rani" and "Making Sacred History or Everyone his/her own
Historian: The Pasts of the village of Saidlajab" from The Present in
Delhi's Pasts, Delhi: Three Essays Press, 2002, pp.62-118.
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/kumar_delhi_pasts.pdf

Please note that this last link to the text by Sunil Kumar is the entire
book, but the reading is only for the second and third essays in the
volume, as cited above.

The first two links will be the basis for a short presentation and
introduction to discussion by Anand Vivek Taneja from the Department of
Anthropology at Columbia University, who will join us for the session.

As usual, I will order meals for everyone. Please let me know if you are
NOT coming so I can adjust the food order accordingly.

Best,


S.K.


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Shekhar Krishnan
c/o Erik Ghenoiu
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From shekhar at MIT.EDU  Wed Nov 15 11:39:57 2006
From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:39:57 -0500
Subject: [Urban-Media] Talk Friday: Globality and Gendered Violence
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Emergent Globality & Acts of Gendered Violence:
Languages of Resistance & Co-option

A talk by Kumkum Sangari


FRIDAY 17 NOVEMBER at 4:30 p.m.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building 14E-304
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=14&Buildings=go

Kumkum Sangari is Professor of English at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has published extensively on gender studies,
literature, critical theory, religious conversion, medieval oral and
devotional traditions, nationalist figures such as Gandhi and Annie
Besant, domestic labour, the beauty industry, widow immolation and
communal violence. She is the author of Politics of the Possible: Essays
on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial English (2002), and co-editor
of From Myths to Markets: Essays on Gender (1999), Recasting Women:
Essays in Colonial History (1990), Women and Culture (1985).

Hosted by Abha Sur, the MIT Program in Women?s Studies, and the South
Asia Forum.



-- 
Shekhar Krishnan <shekhar at mit.edu>
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)