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"The Modern City in Ruins: |
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Asian Studies Program Co-Sponsors: Sheth Endowed Lecture in Indian Studies, Asian Studies Program |
| Program | "The Modern City in Ruins: The Memory of Cosmopolitan Bombay." Gyan Prakesh, Lecturer |
| When | April 03, 2005 Time:4:00 |
| Where | MC. Carlos Museum Reception Hall |
| Contact | Asian Studies at 404-727-6280 |
| mshocke@emory.edu | |
| www | http://www.asianstudies.emory.edu/events/events.cfm |
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| Remark | Description: Gyan Prakash is Professor of History at Princeton University, and a member of the Subaltern Studies Editorial Collective. He is also the Director of Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, where he currently directs a two-year program on Cities: Space, society, and history. He is a historian of modern South Asia, and is the author of Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India (1990), and Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India (1999). He has also edited several volumes of essays on colonial history, including After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements (1995). He is currently researching and writing a book on Bombay, focused on its history as an idea, as a set of urban imaginaries. His academic honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the appointment as Directeur d'Etudes Associe at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. |
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