An Indo-American Community event: A conversation with historian of South Asia and Fellow of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, Professor Faisal Devji. Led by Associate Professor of History, Janaki Bakhle and Associate Professor of English and co-Director of the Program in Critical Theory, Poulomi Saha.
The conversation will be moderated by Munis D. Faruqui, Director, Institute for South Asia Studies; Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies; Associate Professor, South & South East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley.
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- DATE: Fri, Apr 19, 2024
- TIME: 5-6:30 pm PST
- VENUE: 158 Mulford Hall
- LIVESTREAM: On FB at ISASatUCBerkeley
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About the Speaker
Dr. Faisal Devji is Professor of Indian History and Fellow of St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. He has held faculty positions at Harvard, Yale, the University of Chicago and the New School for Social Research, as well as the Yves Oltramane Chair at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Devji has been a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and the Institute of Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the author of four books, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (2005), The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (2008), The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence (2012) and Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (2013).
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About the Lecture Series
The Indo-American Community Lectureship in India Studies is a part of UC Berkeley’s Indo-American Community Chair in India Studies, a chair endowed in 1990-91 with the support of the CG of India in San Francisco, the Hon. Satinder K. Lambah and hundreds of members of the Indo-American community. This lectureship enables ISAS, with the support of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), to bring prominent individuals from India to Berkeley to deliver a lecture and interact with campus and community members during a two-week stay. Past Lectureship holders include Upendra Baxi, Andre Beteille, Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Narendra Panjwani, Anuradha Kapur, Ashis Nandy, Amita Baviskar, Romila Thapar, Nivedita Menon, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Nandini Sundar, and Tanika Sarkar. Read more about the series or listen to past lectures HERE
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Event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
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