[Urban-Media] 12 May Workshop in Boston/Cambridge

[Shekhar Krishnan]

All:

As we have discussed, we would like to hold a one-day meeting to bring
together urban historians and anthropologists of Middle East and South
Asia to present and discuss their work and methods. This would also
bring together many of the discussions and themes which we have had over
the spring and fall of 2006 at MIT. A recap of the papers presented is
on:

http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Spring_2006_Sessions
http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Fall_2006_Sessions

We have agreed that the best date for this workshop is SATURDAY 12 MAY
2007 in the Cambridge/Boston area. We will either hold this at MIT or
Wellesley College, depending on where we get support. We will offer no
funds to anyone, only the opportunity to come down and meet fellow
scholars and share your work. This will not be a public event, but there
may be some visitors from Harvard and MIT. 

Below is a list of the people who are now subscribed to this list,
including members of our seminar at MIT, and other correspondents. While
not everyone on this list will come, we already have commitments from
several people. Depending on how many presentations we have, we could do
three sessions in one day (10.30 to 12.00, 13.30 to 15.00 and 15.30 to
17.00) followed by drinks and dinner in Cambridge. 

So if you are ready to come and make this workshop happen on Saturday 12
May, please send a mail to this list with your presentation topic as
soon as possible. Please be prepared to pre-circulate your short paper
or presentation by the end of April. 

Thanks, 


S.K.

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* Michael M.J. Fischer, Anthropology and STS, MIT
* Shekhar Krishnan, Science Technology & Society, MIT
* Eric L. Beverley, History & Literature/Indo-Muslim Cultures, Harvard
University
* Nikhil Rao, History, Wellesley College
* Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, History, Northeastern University
* Tulasi Srinivas, Anthropology/Religious Studies, Georgetown University
* Nithya Raman, Urban Studies/Planning, MIT
* Anand Vivek Taneja, Anthropology, Columbia University
* Sarah Waheed, History, Tufts University
* Svati Shah, Sexuality & Gender Studies/Anthropology, New York
University
* Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Centre for the Study of Culture & Society,
Bangalore
* Douglas E. Haynes, History, Dartmouth College
* Manan Ahmed, History, University of Chicago
* Subho Basu, History, Syracuse University
* Ishita Pande, History, Queen's University
* Erik Ghenoiu, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
* Partho Datta, Nehru Memorial Library, New Delhi
* Taha Mehmood, SARAI, New Delhi



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