[Reader-list] Invite: Talk by Prof. Arjun Appadurai: 31 January 2012 @ TISS

[Shilpa Phadke]

Urban Aspirations in Global Cities


A collaborative project of

Tata Institute of Social Sciences,

Max Planck Institute

and

Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research



invite you to a talk titled



Dreams and Reality in Mumbai's Mediascape



by



Prof. Arjun Appadurai

Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York
University

Tata Chair in Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences



on



Tuesday, 31 January 2012



At 3.30 pm





Venue:      New Conference Hall, Library Building, Main Campus, Tata
Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai





*Professor Arjun Appadurai* is currently Goddard Professor of Media,
Culture, and Communication at New York University in New York City, NY.
Arjun Appadurai served as Senior Advisor for Global Initiatives at The New
School in New York City, where he also holds a Distinguished Professorship
as the John Dewey Professor in the Social Sciences. Arjun Appadurai was the
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at The New School.
He was formerly William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of International Studies,
Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Center for Cities and
Globalization at Yale University. Prof. Appadurai is the founder and now
the President of PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research),
an independent research collective and urban knowledge production center
oriented to issues of urbanization & globalization in Mumbai.



He has authored numerous books and scholarly articles including Fear of
Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (2006, Duke University
Press) and 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. 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 1980′s and 1990′s; a longer
term collaborative project on the cultural dimensions of social crisis in
Mumbai, focusing on housing, poverty, media and violence; a comparative
ethnographic project on grass-roots globalization, intended to illuminate
emergent transnational organizational forms and new practices of
sovereignty.





*"Urban Aspirations in Global Cities"* is an international collaborative
project in which researchers from TISS, Mumbai, Max Planck Institute (MPI),
Germany and Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research (PUKAR),
Mumbai, are working together. The project aims to compare post-colonial
mega-cities in Asia, including Mumbai, Singapore and Shanghai, and
understand how the urban community of rapidly growing mega-cities impacts
the development of urban aspirations.



This project which commenced in December 2010 attempts to explore the city
through primary research done by young researchers of TISS, MPI and PUKAR
and document contemporary research on the city available in the form of
reports, research monographs, films and other textual and visual material.
This material will be housed in TISS and will also be available on a
virtual platform that allows for complex and multiple engagements with the
research material on the city.