Converting Cultures, Fall 2002.  Dartmouth College
     

The lecture information:

The Fall 2002 Humanities Institute, "Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology and Transformations of Modernity,"is hosting a series of public lectures in October and November.

Wed. Oct. 9
4:30pm
3 Rockefeller
Prof. Gauri Viswanathan
Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities
Department of English & Comparative Literature
Columbia University
New York, NY
"Hinduism and the Challenge of Conversion"
  
Wed. Oct. 23
4:30pm
3 Rockefeller
Prof. Serif Mardin
Professor, Arts & Sciences
Sabanci University
Istanbul, Turkey
"The Public and the Imaginary: the New Literature of the Tanzimat"
  
Wed. Oct. 30
4:30pm
Thornton 105
Prof. John Treat
Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University
New Haven, CT
"Turning Japanese: Kim Munjib (1907-19??)"
  
Wed. Nov. 6
4:30pm
Thornton 105
Prof. James Laine
Professor of Religious Studies
Macalester College
St. Paul, MN
"Shivaji and the Roots of Hindu Nationalism in Western India"
  
Mon. Nov. 11
4:30pm
Thornton 105
Prof. Naoki Sakai
Professor of Japanese Literature and History
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
"Literature as Conversion"
  

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