Two-day Copenhagen workshop on Spectacle of Globality in India
The Centre of Global South Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen organised a two day international workshop in collaboration with the National Museum, Copenhagen, focusing on ”Spectacle of Globality”, 29–30 August 2012. The two day workshop brought together a range of cutting edge research on post reform India. The workshop was part of a research programme ‘Nation in Motion’ (2010-2014) funded by the Danish Council of Independent Research (FSE), being the first in a series of four international workshops.
The line-up of participating speakers and session convenors was impressing:
– Thomas Blom Hansen, Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Stanford University;
– David Ludden (photo), Professor of Political Economy and Globalization in the Department of History at New York University;
– Esther Fihl, Head of Centre for Comparative Cultural Studies at Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen;
– Uwe Skoda, Chairperson, Contemporary India Study Centre Aarhus (CISCA) at the Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University;
– Anthony D'Costa, A.P. Möller-Mærsk Foundation Professor in Indian Studies and Research Director at the Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School;
– Bengt Karlsson, Head of the Dept. of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University;
– Arild Ruud, Professor of Anthropology, Oslo University;
– William Mazzarella, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago;
– Gopal Guru, Professor of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi;
– Saloni Mathur, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles;
– Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Professor of the Humanities, School of English, University of Leeds;
– Dilip Menon, Mellon Chair of Indian Studies and the Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa;
– Srirupa Roy (photo), Professor and Chair of State and Democracy at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen;
– Frida Hastrup, Postdoc Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen;
– Kajri Jain, Associate Professor of Indian Visual Culture and Contemporary Art in the Department of Visual Studies and the Graduate Departments of Art History and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada;
– Manuela Ciotti, Assistant Professor in Global Studies at Aarhus University;
– Aniket Alam, Senior Assistant Editor of the Economic and Political Weekly;
– Ravinder Kaur, Director of Centre for Global South Asian Studies, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen; and
– Nicolas Jaoul, CNRS, Paris.
