Organized by: NYU Research Group on Transnational Everyday Life

Co-sponsored by: Postcolonial Colloquium, Dept. of English, NYU; SouthAsia@NYU.

Speaker: Prof. Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. (Prof. rukmini-nair-cv)

Title: “In Search of Darwin’s Orient: A Cross-cultural Perspective on Emotional Registers in Everyday Indian Life, Literature, and the Arts” (Abstracts for Prof Rukmini Nair’s Lecture) 

Respondent: Dr. Toral Gajarawala, Dept. of English, New York University. The author of just published, Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste (Fordham University Press, 2012)

Date: 12 December, 2012

Time: 6.00 – 8.00 pm

Place: Room #222, NYU, 13-19 University Place, NYC, NY – 10003. [map]