Please join the Center for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley for the

23rd ANNUAL SOUTH ASIA CONFERENCE & PRE-CONFERENCE
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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Cities and Citizenship:
Interrogating Urbanism in Contemporary South Asia

Pre-Conference to the 23rd South Asia Annual Conference

Geballe Room, Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall

Program:

8:00 - 9:00: Registration
9:00 - 9:15: Introductory Symposium Remarks
9:15 - 10:45: Panel 1 - Citizenship and Urban Space in the Indian City
11:00 - 1:00: Panel 2 - Re-scripting Identity through Urban Space
2:00 - 2:45: Keynote Address: "Dispatches from the Dark" by Amitava Kumar, Department of English, Vassar College
3:00 - 5:00: Panel 3 - Neoliberal Space in a Post-Industrial City
5:15 - 6:30: Reception at Women's Faculty Club

For the full conference schedule and other information, please visit:
http://ced.berkeley.edu/symposia/southasia

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Friday/Saturday, February 15/16, 2008

23rd South Asia Annual Conference, UC Berkeley

Homeroom and Ida & Robert Sproul Room, International House

Program:

Friday, February 15

9:00 - 10:30 am:

Panel 1: India & the West- From the Second World War to the 1970's
Panel 2: [Dis]continuity in musical practices of South Asia

10:45 - 12:15 pm: Author Meets Critics Panel

"The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India."
Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University

1:30 - 3:00 pm

Panel 1: Information and Communications Technologies for Development
Panel 2: The Politics of Emergent Socialities in South Asia

3:15 - 4:45 pm:

Performing the Universal as Local: Imperial Histories, Performance Pedagogies, and the Global Passages of the Bengali Theater

5:00 - 6:15 pm: Reception in the Great Hall
6:30 pm: Rajendranath Das Keynote Address (Chevron Auditorium)

"Different Universalisms, Vernacular Cosmopolitanisms: The Global Imagination of the Colonized"
Sugata Bose,
Director, South Asia Initiative and Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University

Saturday, February 16

9:00 - 10:30 am: The Genre in Perspective
10:45 - 12:15 pm: (Re)shaping the Indian Middle Class: Gender, Work and the "New" Nation

The keynote event is free, wheelchair-accessible and open to the public. For all other conference events, you may register at the door:

$20 for students (with valid student ID)
$50 for others
$10 Special 1 Day Pass for students (with valid student ID)

For the full conference schedule and other information, please visit: http://ias.berkeley.edu/southasia/conference/conference08.html
Conference Flyer may be viewed at: http://southasia.berkeley.edu/flyers/23rd_SACon_Flyer.pdf

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Center for South Asia Studies
10 Stephens Hall, #2310
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2310

(510) 642-3608 (Phone)
(510) 643-5793 (Fax)