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Calendar of Events

(List Chronologically | List by Type)

November 1 - November 7 (week one)

Monday, Nov. 2 from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Public Lecture: "Courtly Competition between ‘Muslim’ and ‘Hindu’ States in 16th-Century South Asia"   (link to video of presentation)

Tuesday, November 3 from 12 - 1:30 p.m.

Advanced Seminar: Reflections on "Courtly Competition between 'Muslim' & 'Hindu' States in 16th Century South Asia"

Wednesday, November 4 from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Flexner Dinner: Alumnae and Faculty History, East Asian Studies, and History of Art with Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Flexner Lecturer

- Wyndham Alumnae House, Private Dining Room.

Thursday, November 5 from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m.

Flexner Event:  "Rome 1735: Making Sense of the “Chinese Rites” Debates" with Historian Carlo Ginzburg

- Carpenter Library, Room 21

* Reception for campus community and guests to follow.

Friday, November 6 from 7:30 - 10:00 p.m.

Documentary Film Screening: "Words on Water" with Sanjay Kak, Independent Documentary Film Maker

- Carpenter Library, Room 21

* Campus dinner precedes 

Co-sponsored by Bryn Mawr Film Institute. 

Saturday, November 7 from 5:30 to 8 p.m.

Flexner Event:  "An Evening with Sanjay Subrahmanyam," a Campus Dinner for Bi-Co Students

Free and open to all members of the Bi-Co.

- Cambrian Row

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November 8 - November 14 (week two)

Monday, Nov. 9 from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Flexner Lecture:  "Courtliness, Conversion and Martyrdom in the Indian Ocean World" 

(link to video of presentation)

- Thomas Great Hall

* Reception for campus community and guests to follow.

Tuesday, November 9 from 12 to 1:30 p.m.

Advanced Seminar:  Reflections on “Courtliness, Conversion and Martyrdom in the Indian Ocean World"

- Campus Center, Room, 200

* Lunch served 

Wednesday, November 11 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.            

Advanced Seminar:  “Border Crossings:  Identities and politics through time and space” with Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Faculty Conveners:  Madhavi Kale; Michael Allen and Carol Hager; and Pauline Lin

- Multicultural Center Living Room and Conference Room

* Late lunch served 

 

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM

Flexner Colloquia: “Mr. Picart and the Religion of India,” a Colloquium in Visual Culture with Flexner Lecturer Sanjay Subrahmanyam:

Thomas Hall, Room 224

Thursday, November 12, 2009 from 12:30 to 1:45 pm.  

Thursday, November 12, 2009 from 12:30 to 1:45 pm.  

Flexner Colloquia:  "Telling Other People's Stories: The circulation of history and legend between Asia and Europe in the Sixteenth Century," a Library Colloquium with Flexner Lecturer Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Dalton Hall, Room 300

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November 15 - November 21 ( week three)

Monday, Nov. 16 from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Flexner Lecture:  "Translating the Mughal Court: Visual Representations by Europeans"

- Thomas Great Hall

* Reception for campus community and guests to follow

Tuesday, November 16 from 12 to 1:30 p.m.

Advanced Seminars:  Reflections on “Translating the Mughal Court: Visual Representations by Europeans"

- Campus Center, Room, 200

* Lunch served 

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