Special Event: Rights, Identities, Communities: Literature & Social Justice in India Today

Posted in 2011–2012 Readings and Talks

Fall 2011 Lecture Series

Co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost at Georgetown, the GU Justice and Peace Program and the GU English Department.

This event is free and open to the public.

Dakxin Bajrange
Performance for Justice
Sept. 6, 2011 | 3 pm – 4:30 pm | New North 311

Nilufer Bharucha, Sridhar Rajeswaran & Kavita Daiya
Marxism East and West
September 13, 2011 | 3 pm – 4:30 pm | New North 311

Literature and Social Change in India
September 14, 2011 | Noon – 3 pm | Lannan Center (w/GU faculty)

Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084
September 14, 2011 | 3:30 pm – 5 pm | ICC 103

T. Vijay Kumar
Marxism West and East: Literature, Multiculturalism, Das Kapital
October 18, 2011 | New North 311 | 2 pm – 4:30 pm

Who Speaks for the Nation?: Centres, Margins and Post-Coloniality
October 19, 2011 | 3:30 pm – 6 pm | Lannan Center, New North 408

Roxy Gagdekar
Marxism in the Middle: Theory Between Revolution and Reform
November 1, 2011 | New North 311 | 2 pm – 4:30 pm

The DC premiere of Please Don’t Beat Me Sir!
November 2, 2011 | 3:30 pm – 6 pm | Lannan Center, New North 408
Directed by Shashwati Talukdar and P. Kerim Friedman, 75 mins