Schedule For India workshop

Thursday, 10 February

            7.30 p.m. (Reynolds Hall) Bharati Mukerjee, A Public Reading

            Followed by a Reception and Book Signing

 Friday, 11 February

            8-9 a.m. (Student Center 214) Coffee and Registration

            9-9.15 a.m. (Student Center 215) Welcome and Announcements

                        Indian Student Dancers

9.15-11.30 a.m. Bharati Mukherjee, “Teaching India: The Charms and Traps of Multiplicity”

            11.45-12.45 p.m. (Student Center 205) Luncheon

                        Welcoming Remarks by UCA President Lu Hardin

            1-3 p.m.  (Student Center 215)  Peter Hershock, “Poverty Alleviation: Buddhist Texts and
                        Teachings in Global Context”

            3.15-3.30 p.m. (Student Center 214) Coffee Break

                                    3.30-5.30 p.m. (Student Center 215) Gail Minault, “Writing History in the Post-Colonial World: Orientalism and Its Discontents”

            5:30-7.30 p.m.  Dinner (on one’s own)

            7.30-10 p.m.  (Stanley Russ 103) Film and Discussion: Monsoon Wedding (dir. Mira Nair,
                         2001)

 Saturday, 12 February

            9-9.30 a.m. (Student Center 214) Coffee and Registration

                                    9.30-11.30 a.m. (Student Center 215) Itty Abraham, “India’s Political Self-Fashioning: A Nuclear Past and Future”

            11.45-12.45 p.m. (Student Center 205) Luncheon

                                    1-3 p.m. (Student Center 215) Wimal Dissanayake, “Images and Insights: Understanding Indian Culture through Cinema”

            3-3.15 p.m. (Student Center 214) Coffee Break

3.30-4.30 (Student Center 215) Betty Buck, moderator, “Teaching India: A Panel
              Discussion”