UH Manoa Campus Events Calendar
Bodies in South Asian Contexts
April 10, 2008 - April 12, 2008Manoa Campus, Center for Korean Studies
UH-Mānoa, Center for South Asian Studies
25th Annual Spring Symposium
The Body in South Asian Contexts
Highlights:
Thursday, April 10:
Bhaktirasgi Mangal - Khonjel : Sounds and Lights of Devotion
A multimedia presentation in Classical Manipuri Dance
By Sohini Ray (Institute of Manipuri Dance)
Preceded by an evening pupu reception
Reception: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Presentation & Performance: 6:30pm - 7:45pm
Where: CKS Auditorium
South Asian Dancing Bodies as Sites of Innovating Tradition: Contemporary Indian Dance in India and the U.S. Diaspora
An invited lecture by Ketu Katrak, a scholar of postcolonial literature and theory, Third World women writers, and feminist theory. Dr. Katrak is based in the departments of Asian American Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
When: 9:00am - 10:15am
Where: CKS Auditorium
The Operable Body: Indian Decolonization and the Ethics of Organ Transplantation
An invited lecture by Lawrence Cohen, a cultural anthropologist and critical theorist of medicine, health, and the body. Dr. Cohen is based in the departments of Anthropology and South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
When: 2:45pm - 4:00pm
Where: CKS Auditorium
Friday, April 11:
Savage Bodies, Civilised Pleasures: M.V. Portman and Andamanese
An invited lecture by Satadru Sen, a historian of Indian colonial and postcolonial institutions of body regulation. Dr. Sen is based in the Department of History at Queen's College, City University of New York.
When: 9:00am - 10:15am
Where: CKS Auditorium
Saturday, April 12:
Caste in the Contemporary World - A Day of Workshops
* "Caste and Democracy: Three Paradoxes" (9:45am - 10:35am)
* M.S.S. Pandian (Rama Watumull Distinguished Visiting Scholar)
* "Heterogeneous Histories of Gender and Caste" (10:35am - 11:25am)
* Anupama Rao (Barnard College)
* "Rethinking Histories of Untouchability: Representations of Labor and Caste in Academia" (11:35am - 12:25pm)
* Ramnarayan Rawat (University of Pennsylvania)
Complete program details are available here.
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All events are free and open to the public. For questions or concerns about the program, please contact Amy or Amanda at 956-5652. For disability accommodations, please contact Linda of the Center for Korean Studies at 956-7041. Advance notice requested. The University of Hawai'i is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution.
Event Sponsor
Center for South Asian Studies, Manoa
More Information
Amy, 956-5652, csas@hawaii.edu, http://www.hawaii.edu/csas
| Thursday, April 10 | |
| 9:00am | Career, College & Job Fair Leeward Campus |
| 11:00am | Careers In Aging Day Manoa Campus, Campus Center, Room 310 |
| 11:30am | UHM Student Employee of the Year Luncheon 2008 Manoa Campus, Campus Center Ballroom |
| 12:00pm | Liz Bryson Oral History Project Manoa Campus, 1800 East West Road, Henke Hall 325 |
| 12:00pm | Big Carbon in Northern Wetlands Colloquium Manoa Campus, 445B Saunders Hall |
| 12:00pm | Faculty Seminar Series 1236 Lauhala Street, Suite 401 |
| 12:00pm | 3rd Annual Ah Quon McElrath Distinguished Forum on Social Change Manoa Campus, Hemenway Hall Theater |
| 12:30pm | Sexual Assault Awareness Month Event Manoa Campus, QLSSC 411 |
| 1:30pm | Bella Willing, Voice Recital Manoa Campus, Orvis Auditorium |
| 3:00pm | Anthropology Spring Colloquium Series Manoa Campus, Saunders Hall, Room 345 |
| 3:00pm | Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War Manoa Campus, Saunders Hall 345 |
| 3:00pm | Ocean Acidification Manoa Campus, Marine Science Building 100 |
| 3:00pm | Center for Japanese Studies Graduate Student Seminar Manoa Campus, Moore 319 (Tokioka Room) |
| 3:00pm | Anthropology Lecture Manoa Campus, Spalding Hall 155 auditorium |
| 3:30pm | From Belle To The Super B Factory Manoa Campus, Watanabe Hall, Rm. 112 |
| 4:00pm | Climate Change and Public Health Manoa Campus, BioMed T-21 |
| 4:45pm | Resume Writing Workshop with Stafford Kiguchi Manoa Campus, Campus Center Room 307 |
| 5:30pm | Cooking - The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health Manoa Campus, Hemenway 101 |
| 7:30pm | Ancient Egyptian Mummies Lecture Manoa Campus, Campus Center Ballroom |
April 2008 - Highlighted dates have scheduled events.
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Ongoing Events
- Capoeria
- Hatha Yoga
- Ceramics
- Tang Soo Do
- Hula I
- Belly Dancing II
- Belly Dance II
- Capoiera
- Hatha Yoga
- Tahitian I & II
- Ceramics
- Ceramics
- Hula I
- Aerobics
- Tai Chi
- Hula II
- Hawaiian Jiujitsu
- Hawaiian Jujitsu
- Mind Skills
- Ceramics
- Guitar II
- Ceramics
- Beginning Massage
- Belly Dance I
- Ceramics
- Ceramics
- Ceramics
- Ceramics
- The Commodity of Exchange: Prints from the Charles Cohan Collection
- Exhibition of Paintings by Albert Wendt
- Image and Word: Jean Charlot and the Way of the Cross exhibition
- Ceramics
- Ceramics
- Yoga Spectrum
- Afro Carribean Jazz Dance
- Afro Caribbean Jazz Dance
- Hula I
- Hula I
- Salsa Workshop
- Hawaiian Slack Key
- Hapkido
- Hapkido
- Ceramics
- Ceramics
- South Asian Dance: Bodies in Motion
- Bodies in South Asian Contexts
- Ceramics