Dear all,

Apologies for the x-posting.  Please see the announcement below for our Annual South Asia Conference at SMU. 

My best,

Steven


STEVEN LINDQUIST, PH.D.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, RELIGIOUS STUDIES

DIRECTOR, GLOBAL AND REGIONAL STUDIES INITIATIVE 

DIRECTOR, ASIAN STUDIES

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Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, SMU

PO Box 750202 | Dallas | TX | 75275

Email: slindqui@smu.edu

Web: http://faculty.smu.edu/slindqui





AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICIES AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA

A conference jointly presented by Asian Studies (Southern Methodist University) and the South Asia Research and Information Institute (Dallas).

Saturday, September 6, 2014
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall, Southern Methodist University

Marc Galanter, JD
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Title: TBA

Ashwini Deshpande, Ph.D.
Delhi School of Economics
"Caste Disparities, Discrimination and Affirmative Action: Two Stories from Tamil Nadu and Gujarat”

Guilhem Cassan, Ph.D.
The University of Namur, Belgium
"Quantifying the Effect of Reservations for Low Castes on Educational Attainment"

Veronica Frisancho, Ph.D.
Inter-American Development Bank
"Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India: Targeting, Catch Up, and Mismatch"

Ajantha Subramanian, Ph.D.
Harvard University
"The Meritocrats: the Indian Institutes of Technology and the Social Life of Caste"
Discussant:
Prathiba Natesan, Ph.D.
University of North Texas


Conference is free, but registration is required by August 23rd (please email: affirmative@sarii.org)
Abstracts and further info will be available at www.smu.edu/asianstudies and www.sarii.org