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Today's Topics:

   1. Talk by Arjun Appadurai (PUKAR)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:08:16 +0530
To: SARAI Media Initiative:;
From: PUKAR <pukar at bol.net.in>
Subject: [Announcements] Talk by Arjun Appadurai

The P.E.N. ALL-INDIA CENTRE
and PUKAR (Partners For Urban Knowledge Action & Research, Mumbai)

invite you, with your friends, to

'War, Terror and Identity: Disciplinary Lines of Control'

A Talk by

ARJUN APPADURAI


Date:   Thursday, 31 January 2002
Time:   6:15 pm
Venue:  The ULT Library
         Theosophy Hall (third floor)
         40, New Marine Lines
         Churchgate
         Bombay 400 020


: ALL ARE WELCOME :


Arjun Appadurai is Samuel N. Harper Distinguished Service Professor 
at the University of Chicago, where he teaches in the Departments of 
Anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations. He is also 
Director of the Globalization Project at the University of Chicago.

Professor Appadurai was born in Bombay, where he graduated from St. 
Xavier's High School and took hisIntermediate Arts degree from 
Elphinstone College before leaving for the United States. He took his 
B.A. from Brandeis University in 1967, and his M.A. and Ph.D(1976) 
from the University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous books 
and articles in scholarly journals. His most recent book is Modernity 
at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, (1996,University of 
Minnesota Press; 1997, Oxford University Press, Delhi). His previous 
scholarly publications have covered such topics  as religion, 
cuisine, agriculture and mass culture in India.

Professor Appadurai is one of the founding editors, with Carol A. 
Breckenridge, of the journal Public Culture, and was the founding 
Director of the Chicago Humanities Institute at the University of 
Chicago (1992-1998), during which time he held the Richard J. and 
Barbara E. Franke Professorship.

He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He 
serves or has served on numerous national and international advisory 
bodies, including the advisory council of the Smithsonian Institute, 
and the governing boards of: the Institute for Cultural Pluralism 
(Rio de Janeiro), the Research Center for Religion and Society 
(Amsterdam), Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, and the 
Social Science Research Council (New York).

He has served or is serving as a consultant or advisor to a wide 
range of public and private organizations, including the Ford 
Foundation, UNESCO and the World Bank.

His current research has three foci: ethnic violence in the context 
of globalization, with a special focus on ethnic relations in Mumbai 
in the late 1980s and 1990s; a longer term collaborative project on 
the cultural dimensions of social crisis in Mumbai, focusing on 
housing, poverty, media and violence; and a comparative ethnographic 
project on grass-roots globalization, intended to illuminate emergent 
transnational organizational forms and new practices of sovereignty.
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PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research)
P.O. Box 5627
Dadar, Mumbai 400014, India
E-Mail <pukar at bol.net.in>
Phone +91 98200.45529, +91 98204.04010
Web Site http://www.pukar.org.in/


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