October
22, 2004
Upcoming
Lectures…
God
and Government
Tuesday, October 26
“God and Government: Religion in the 2004 Presidential Campaign” will
be the subject of a panel discussion in the New York Room, Mary
Woolley Hall, October 26 at 4 pm. In explaining the significance
of this discussion, Andrea Ayvazian, the College’s Protestant
chaplain, pointed to the liberal use of references to God in the
election and the large role organized religion seems to be playing
in the presidential race. “How and why,” she asked, “has
this intersection between religion and politics become so overt?”
Ayvazian will moderate the discussion among the panelists, all Mount Holyoke
faculty and staff: Joan Cocks, Lisa Freitag-Keshet, Jim Hartley, and Sohail Hashmi.
Cocks, a political philosopher, is chair of the program on critical social thought.
Freitag-Keshet is a rabbi and College chaplain. Hartley and Hashmi are, respectively,
professors of economics and of international relations. Hartley is chair of the
Five College Round Table on Spirit and the Academy, while Hashmi has written
extensively on the politics of Islam. Among the questions the panel will address
are: How separate are church and state? What has become of religious pluralism
in the United States? Will religion decide the election?
John Lax Memorial Lecture
Thursday, October 28
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service
Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University
of Chicago, will deliver the twenty-second John Lax Memorial
Lecture. His talk, “After History: Archiving, Experiencing,
and Destroying the Past,” will take place Thursday, October
28, at 4:30 pm in the New York Room in Mary Woolley Hall.
Considered one of the most influential scholars in Asian studies, Chakrabarty
is known for his work in modern South Asian history and historiography, postcolonial
theory and its impact on how history is written, and comparative questions
and politics of modernity. He has published numerous essays and reviews and
has addressed conferences throughout the U.S., Europe, Australia, and South
Asia. He is a founding member of the series Subaltern
Studies, coeditor of Critical Inquiry, and a founding editor of the journal Postcolonial
Studies.
He has also served on the editorial committee of Public
Culture and the American
Historical Review. Chakrabarty received his B.Sc. from Calcutta University
and his Ph.D. from Australian National University.
Black Dean: Leading for Social Justice
Sunday, October 31
Jonathan D. Jansen, dean of education and professor of curriculum
studies at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, will give
a talk, titled “Black Dean: Leading for Social Justice,” Sunday,
October 31, at
7 pm in the New York Room in Mary Woolley Hall.
Jansen’s current research focuses on the study of mergers and restructuring
in higher education, school improvement studies, comparative studies of multicultural
classrooms, the state and intellectuals after apartheid, and the politics of
education policy in South Africa. He is the author of Knowledge
and Power in South Africa (1991) and Changing Curriculum:
Studies on Outcomes-Based Education in South Africa (1999). In 2000–2001, Jansen received a Fulbright Senior
Africa Research Scholar Award. He serves on the boards of various NGOs and
is both editor and editorial board member for numerous national and international
journals. Jansen’s lecture is sponsored by the psychology and education
department.
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