From shekhar at MIT.EDU  Mon Apr 21 16:43:55 2008
From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:43:55 -0400
Subject: [Urban South Asia] Wednesday: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities
Message-ID: <1208810635.7193.48.camel@wadalaroad>

????Dear All:

Our next meeting is this WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2008 from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m.
in MIT E51-195 where we will discuss Stephen Legg's Spaces of
Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities. 

To download the book and supplementary texts, and for directions to MIT,
see the latest post on http://bombayology.net Please RSVP to me by
e-mail if you are coming so I can order food accordingly. 

Best, 


S.K.
-- 

?Shekhar Krishnan
MIT E51-185
77, Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
U.S.A.
?
http://web.mit.edu/shekhar
http://heptanesia.net
http://bombayology.net
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From shekhar at MIT.EDU  Tue Apr 22 12:49:09 2008
From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan)
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:49:09 -0400
Subject: [Urban South Asia] Richard Sennett TONIGHT on "The Craftsman"
Message-ID: <1208882949.10018.22.camel@wadalaroad>

Dear All:

Please come for the talk by Richard Sennett tonight at MIT. This is the
inaugural public event of the conference on Writing Cities, co-organized
by graduate students in MIT, Harvard and LSE, from Wednesday and
Thursday. For more information on the conference, see
http://urban.media.mit.edu 

Best, 


S.K.

--

*The Craftsman*

Talk by 
RICHARD SENNETT
Bemis Adjunct Professor of Sociology, MIT Dept of Urban Studies and
Planning

??Tuesday, April 22, 2008, Room 10-485, 6:00-7:30pm

http://urban.media.mit.edu/pdf/sennett.pdf
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300119091

"As Richard Sennett makes clear in this lucid and compelling book,
craftsmanship once connected people to their work by conferring pride
and meaning. The loss of craftsmanship?and of a society that values it ?
has impoverished us in ways we have long forgotten but Sennett helps us
understand." ?Robert B. Reich

"The Craftsman names a basic human impulse: the desire to do a job well
for its own sake. Although the word may suggest a way of life that waned
with the advent of industrial society, Sennett argues that the
craftsman's realm is far broader than skilled manual labor; the computer
programmer, the doctor, the parent, and the citizen need to learn the
values of good craftsmanship today. "In his most ambitious book to date,
one of our most distinguished public intellectuals explores the work of
craftsmen past and present; he connects physical labor to ethical
values; he challenges received ideas about what constitutes good work in
today's world." ? from the book jacket

Hosted by MIT DUSP/Community Design and Development Forum


-- 

?Shekhar Krishnan
MIT E51-185
77, Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
U.S.A.
?
http://web.mit.edu/shekhar
http://heptanesia.net
http://bombayology.net
http://zotero.org/about