AUG 16 2010 :
'Gandhi among the Zulus' with Joseph Lelyveld

Time: 1500-1700     Venue: Graduate Humanities Seminar Room, SW Engineering Building
His career at The New York Times spanned nearly four decades and included stints as a foreign correspondent in India and South Africa, foreign editor, managing editor, and executive editor. He is the author of Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and he is the recipient of two George Polk Awards and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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AUG 17 2010 :
"Peculiar Embrace: India, South Africa and the theoretical significance of biometric government." - Keith Breckenridge

Time: 1500-1700     Venue: WISER Seminar Room, Richard Ward Building

NOV 1-3 2010 :
'WRITING POST NATIONAL NARRATIVES: OTHER GEOGRAPHIES, OTHER TIMES

Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg November 1-3 2010
Professors Prasenjit Duara (National University of Singapore) will present keynote lecture addressing the emerging perspectives on writing transnational histories, cosmopolitanism and the ironies of post colonial theorizing.
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EVENTS

August 31

Labour and Unfreedom in the era of colonial empires: the hunt for "coolies"
Speaker: Professor Jan Breman (Amsterdam School for Social Science Research)
Time: 17h00-19h00
Venue: Dorothy Suskind Auditorium, School of Architecture  

July 21 - August 6

Exhibition - Under the Umdoni Tree: the art of Ebrahim and Omar Badsha
20th July: Panel discussion: Omar Badsha, Thembinkosi Goniwe, Bheki Peterson, Jon Soske, 1500-1700 Graduate Seminar Room, SW Engineering Building
21st July: Exhibition opening 1800 hrs followed by wine and snacks
22nd and 23rd July: Walk-about with Omar Badsha: 1400-1600 hrs
24th July: Masterclass with Omar Badsha (by invitation)
Venue: Substation, Wits School of Arts

June 4

The Battle for Johannesburg (2010)
Speakers: Panel Discussion
Time: 18h00
Venue: GRADUATE Seminar Room, SW Engineering Building  

May 19

"The Life and Death of Dr. Abu Baker 'Hurley' Asvat, February 23, 1942-January 27, 1989"
Speakers: Jon Soske (Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, Wits)
Time: 18h30
Venue: WISER Seminar Room, East Campus  

May 18

Confronting Homophobia : A conversation between LGBTI activists from India and South Africa
Speakers: Gautam Bhan, Nivedita Menon, Anthony Manion , Busi Kheswa
Time: 15h00 - 17h00
Venue: CB 8  

May 11

Constitution, Law and Social Justice
Speakers: Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud (Judge Mumbai High Court), Dr. Ivor Chipkin (Director, Public Affairs Research Institute), Professor Jonathan Klaaren (University of Witwatersrand)
Time: 15h00 - 17h00
Venue:Chalsty Seminar Room, Law School  

May 10

"Reforms in Higher Education - parallel histories in India and South Africa"
Speakers:Prof. Deepak Nayyar, Prof. Yunus Ballim
Time: 15h30 - 17h30
Venue:Graduate Seminar Room, Ground Floor, SW Engg Building

For further information contact Prof. Dilip Menon, Mellon Chair in Indian Studies, dilip.menon@wits.ac.za ; 011-717-4020  

April 21

Writing Histories of Political Violence : The MK and Nationalism in South Africa
Speakers: Rasheed Seedat, Razia Saleh (authors of Men of Dynamite a history of Indians in the MK), Prof. Phil Bonner (University of Witwatersrand)
Time: 15h00 - 17h00
Venue: Media Room SH 3004

For further information contact Prof. Dilip Menon, Mellon Chair in Indian Studies, dilip.menon@wits.ac.za; 011-717-4020  

March 5

In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989)
Time: 20h00
Venue:286 Fox Street - one block down from Arts on Main Directed by Pradip Krishen
@ The Bioscope (www.thebioscope.co.za) in conjunction with the Centre for Indian Studies at Wits (www.cisa-wits.org.za) / Drinks and snacks will be served
For directions to Arts on Main, see: http://www.artsonmain.co.za/locations.html
 

March 4

Achal Prabhala (Writer and Researcher, Bangalore)
Ntone Edjabe (Editor, Chimurenga Magazine)
Jon Soske (Postdoctoral Fellow CISA)
Isabel Hofmeyr (African Literature and CISA)
Surveying the Wreckages of Utopia: New Aesthetics for Writing the Transnational
Time: 16h00-18h00
Venue: Central Block 8  

October 2

Dr Manas Ray (Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Kolkata)
Afterlife of the Partition of India: On Memory and Locality
Time: 13h15-14h15
Venue: Central Block 8  

July 9

Prof Randall Bird
Building the Merina World in 19th-century Central-Highlands Madagascar:
The Earth, the Ocean and the Ancestors.
Time: 13h00 - 14h00
Venue: Senate House 3004

August 15-18

Gandhi's Hind Swaraj
A Transnational History, conference in conjunction with WISER.
Time: 13h00 - 14h00
Venue: Senate House 3004  

2009

30 March 2009
Prof Anil Bhatti (JNU, New Delhi) and Prof Michael Titlestad (WISER, Wits)
Two Talks and a Discussion on Transnationalism and Postcolonialism, in conjunction with School of Literature and Language Studies

April 1 2009
Prof Neeladri Bhattacharya (JNU, New Delhi)
Social History and the Post Colonial Turn: A Perspective from India, in conjunction with the History Workshop

18 May 2009
Dr Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Indians Overseas? Governing Tamil Migration to Malaya, 1870-1941, in conjunction with WISER

19 May 2009
Dr Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck College, University of London), Prof Lakshmi Subramanian (Jamia Millia Islamia University)
Concepts in Transnationalism: A Workshop, in conjunction with the School of Literature and Language Studies

June 1 2009
Prof Suvir Kaul (University of Pennsylvania)
Three Literary Meditations on Hindu-Muslim Violence in Postcolonial India, in conjunction with WISER

June 3 2009
Prof Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania)
Cosmopolitan Legacies, in conjunction with WISER

June 5 2009
Prof Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois), Prof Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie (University of the Western Cape), Prof Shireen Hassim (Wits University), Prof Isabel Hofmeyr (University of the Witwatersrand), Prof Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania), Prof Mrinalini Sinha (Pennsylvania State University)
Critical Issues in Gender and Transnationalism, in conjunction with the School of Literature and Language Studies

May 28 2009
Prof Lakshmi Subramanian (Jamia Millia Islamia)
New Approaches to Social History: Looking at Music Histories in South Asia

Jan 14 2009
Professor Mushuril Hasan (Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia University)
Interfaith dialogue in South Asian Islam

Jan 15-17 2009
Conference co-hosted with Roskilde University, Denmark
Print Cultures, Publics and Nationalisms in the Indian Ocean

2008

Nov 11 2008
Dr Kavita Sharma (Hindu College, Delhi)
Affirmative Action in Indian Higher Education,

Oct 23 2008
Shanta Devarajan (Chief Economist for Africa, World Bank)
Africa and South Asia: Development Comparisons and Links

Oct 2-3 2008
Story of the Voyage, in conjunction with WISER

Sept 15-18 2008
Words on Water: India and South Africa in Conversation

Aug 28 2009
Prof Arjun Appadurai (New School, New York)
The Future as a Cultural Fact

Aug 18 2008
The Bonfire of 1908: Passive Resistance
Then and Now Colloquium and Public Lecture

Aug 18 2008
Prof Kader Asmal
Passive Resistance Then and Now

May 19 2008
Prof Ajay Dubey (JNU, Delhi)
India's Africa Policy

May 21 2008
Prof Gabeba Baderoon (Penn State University)
Slavery, Islam and the Construction of Race and Sex at the Cape

May 27 2008
Prof Dilip Menon (University of Delhi)
Besides Empire and Nation: Rethinking the History of Colonial India

May 28 2008
Prof Dilip Menon (University of Delhi)
A Local Cosmopolitan: "Kesari" Balakrishna Pillai and the Invention of Europe
for a Modern Kerala

2007

Jan 13-14 2007
The Indian Ocean as a Cultural Terrain
Held in Bangalore and co-hosted with the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society

March 12 2007
Dr Isher Judge Ahluwalia
Will the Indian Economic Miracle Sustain Itself?

March 12 2007
Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Reflections on India's Reform Process: Lessons for the Developing World

18 April 2007
Amartya Sen
The Nadine Gordimer Lecture: Poverty, War and Peace

20 April 2007
Amartya Sen, Nadine Gordimer, Trevor Manuel and Edwin Cameron in Conversation

Aug 4 2007
Vikas Swarup discusses his bestseller
Q&A as well as the work of Amitav Ghosh

August 20 2007
Prof Sugata Bose, Harvard University
Gandhi and the Indian Independence Movement

Aug 20 -23 2007
Conference Eyes Across the Water: Navigating the Indian Ocean

Aug 23 2007
Amitav Ghosh in Conversation

Aug 23 to 28 2007
Words on Water: Literary Festival of Indian Writers in South Africa

28 August 2007
Mukul Kesavan, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi
Looking Through Glass and Partition Fiction

31 July 2007
Stephen Gelb
The Edge Institute Economic Links between India and South Africa

30 October 2007
Prof Chats Devroop
University of Pretoria Indian-South African Musicians