"The Capacity to Aspire" is the title of a University Lecture to be presented by Arjun Appardurai, the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of International Studies at Yale University, March 28, on campus.
The lecture, which begins at 12:15 p.m. in 158 Sibley Hall, is free and open to the public.
Appardurai is a nationally known scholar, whose research is at the center of critical debates on ethnic violence within the context of globalization, wrote Alaka Basu, associate professor and director of Cornell's South Asia Program, in a letter nominating Appardurai for the University Lecture series.
Appardurai is a historical anthropologist who addresses such themes as emergent transnational organizational forms and new practices of sovereignty.
His "cross-disciplinary work will appeal to students and scholars of anthropology, political science, sociology, economics and city and regional planning," Basu said. "This broad appeal, as well as his interests in international civil society, demonstrate both the range and accessibility of his work."
Prior to joining the Yale faculty, Appardurai taught at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 2002 as the Samuel N. Harper Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. He is founding director of the Chicago Humanities Institute and founding editor of the interdisciplinary journal Public Culture.
Born and educated in Bombay, he earned an intermediate arts degree from Elphinstone College before coming to the United States. He received his B.A. from Brandeis University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Appardurai is the author of Worship and Conflict Under Colonial Rule: A South Indian Case and Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. He also is editor of numerous journals and papers.
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