BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f4cebffbcd5864059faf75430d6ab575 CATEGORIES:Lecture / Reading / Talk CREATED:20211120T121112 SUMMARY:Centre for South Asia - Masterclass with Prof. Vinay Lal LOCATION:FLAME University Campus DESCRIPTION:\n\nCentre for South Asia has organised a masterclass with Dr. Vinay Lal, P rof. of History, UCLA. Participation for students is by prior registration only. Please confirm your participation by sending an e-mail to - This emai l address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Reading material for the masterclass will be sent after registrat ion.\n\n\n \n\n\nProfile\nVinay Lal was born in Delhi and raised in India, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States.\n\n\nHe studied literature, histor y, and philosophy as an undergraduate, and earned his B.A. from the Humanit ies Center at Johns Hopkins University in 1982. He received a M.A. from the same institution, also in 1982, for a thesis on Emerson and Indian Philoso phy. He then studied film in Australia and India on a Thomas J. Watson Fell owship before commencing his graduate studies at the Department of South As ian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, where he was awarded his Ph.D. with Distinction in 1992. His dissertation, "Committees o f Inquiry and Discourses of 'Law and Order' in Twentieth-Century British In dia", received the Marc Galler Award for the best dissertation in the Divis ion of the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He was a William R. Ken an Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, and Lecturer in History, a t Columbia University in 1992-93. \n\nVinay joined the history faculty at U CLA in Fall 1993, and has since held several fellowships, including a Senio r Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies, a National Endo wment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, and a fellowsh ip from the Society for the Promotion of Science/Japan Area Studies Center at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka. He was elected a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science in February 2000. \n\nVinay teaches a broa d range of courses in Indian history, comparative colonial histories, subal tern history and Indian historiography, as well as graduate level seminars on the contemporary politics of knowledge, postcolonial theory, and the pol itics of culture. He has designed and taught a cycle of upper-division unde rgraduate lecture courses on British India, Contemporary South Asia, the In dian Diaspora, and the Moral and Political Thought of Mohandas Gandhi. Semi nars in Indian history cover such subjects as the Politics of Religion and Ethnicity in South Asia; Hindu-Muslim Encounters in South Asia; "The Woman Question" in Colonial India; The Life of Krishna in Indian Art, History, an d Culture; History and the Novel; the Partition of India; Violence in Conte mporary Indian Society; and History and Popular Cinema. \n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Centre for South Asia has organised a masterclass with Dr. Vinay Lal, Prof. of History, UCLA. Participation for students is by prior registr ation only. Please confirm your participation by sending an e-mail to - This emai l address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Reading material for the masterclass will be sent after registration.


 


Profile
Vinay L al was born in Delhi and raised in India, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States.


He studied literature, history, and philosophy as an undergraduate, and earned his B.A. from the Humanities Center at Johns Hopk ins University in 1982. He received a M.A. from the same institution, also in 1982, for a thesis on Emerson and Indian Philosophy. He then studied fil m in Australia and India on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship before commencing his graduate studies at the Department of South Asian Languages and Civili zations at the University of Chicago, where he was awarded his Ph.D. with D istinction in 1992. His dissertation, "Committees of Inquiry and Discourses of 'Law and Order' in Twentieth-Century British India", received the Marc Galler Award for the best dissertation in the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He was a William R. Kenan Fellow, Society of Fe llows in the Humanities, and Lecturer in History, at Columbia University in 1992-93.

Vinay joined the history faculty at UCLA in Fall 1993, and has since held several fellowships, including a Senior Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies, a National Endowment for the Huma nities Fellowship for University Teachers, and a fellowship from the Societ y for the Promotion of Science/Japan Area Studies Center at the National Mu seum of Ethnology, Osaka. He was elected a Fellow of the World Academy of A rt and Science in February 2000.

Vinay teaches a broad range of c ourses in Indian history, comparative colonial histories, subaltern history and Indian historiography, as well as graduate level seminars on the conte mporary politics of knowledge, postcolonial theory, and the politics of cul ture. He has designed and taught a cycle of upper-division undergraduate le cture courses on British India, Contemporary South Asia, the Indian Diaspor a, and the Moral and Political Thought of Mohandas Gandhi. Seminars in Indi an history cover such subjects as the Politics of Religion and Ethnicity in South Asia; Hindu-Muslim Encounters in South Asia; "The Woman Question" in Colonial India; The Life of Krishna in Indian Art, History, and Culture; H istory and the Novel; the Partition of India; Violence in Contemporary Indi an Society; and History and Popular Cinema.
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