Seminar and abstracts

[Kamal Adhikary]

Dear Colleagues:
        The last two talks at Asian Studies for this semester are
scheduled on the 25th and 30th April. If you happen to come to Austin,
please come hear the talks.  The topics are given below, and I will post
the abstracts on ASNIC as usual.  Thanks.

SOUTH ASIA SEMINAR
APRIL 25, Thursday
3:30 PM
Meyerson Conference Room, WCH 4.118
Dr. John Richards
Department of History
Duke University
          "Early Modern Indian and World History"


LECTURE ON INDIAN POLITICS
APRIL 30, Tuesday
12 noon
Meyerson Conference Room, WCH 4.118
Professor Arun Agrawal
Program in Agrarian Studies Yale University - Fellow, 1995-96
Department of Political Science, University of Florida - Professor
           "Subaltern Politics Around Grazing Commons in a Rajasthani
Village, India"   [This work uses ongoing conflicts between raika
shepherds and farmers in Rajasthan, India to examine issues related to
domination, and the possibility of subaltern agency.  He develops two
themes on the basis of the empirical discussion on the formation of new
institutions around jointly used pastoral resources: resistnace and
domination take place only in relation to each other and
power is constitutive for both; subalternity is a shifting
rather than stable identity and depends of the resources and contexts
which actors in various subject positions use for their strategies.]

kamal


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Kamal R. Adhikary, Ph.D.
Internet Coordinator, Asian Studies
UT, Austin, Texas 78712
Tel:512-475-6034
Email:kamal at asnic.utexas.edu