BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;South Asia Center pr esentsMathangi Subramanian and Maura FinkelsteinSecret Stories of the City : Bangalore and Bombay in Conversation Cities - particularly mega-cities l ike Bangalore and Bombay\n- contain identities\, profiles\, and stories th at circulate through official\,\npublic channels. But both cities\, like a ll cities\, have hidden worlds\, unseen\ncorners\, and marginalized reside nts whose stories are devalued or erased\nbecause they do not map onto acc epted narratives of space and demographics.\nThis conversation between Mat hangi Subramanian and Maura Finkelstein will\ndiscuss how ethnographic sto rytelling can challenge accepted narratives by\nhighlighting legitimized a nd marginalized voices\, both through fiction and\nnonfiction. Drawing on Subramanian’s novel A People’s History of Heaven and\nFinkelstein’s ethnog raphy\, The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land\nMumbai\, this conversation will ask: how can ethnography be used as a tool for\nrecovery and visibility? Whose stories get told and whose remain hidden? How do\nw riters choose what stories to tell and why? How can we think beyond the\ni magined bounds of these Indian cities - and\, by extension\, cities around the\nglobe - through ethnographic storytelling?Mathangi Subramanian is an award winning South Asian\nAmerican author and educator who believes stor ies have the power to change the\nworld. Her novel A People’s History of H eaven was longlisted for the\nPEN/Faulkner Award and the Center for Fictio n First Novel Prize\, and was a\nfinalist for the Lambda Literary Award an d the Valley of Words Prize. Her\nmiddle grades novel Dear Mrs. Naidu won the South Asia Book Award and\nwas shortlisted for the Hindu-Goodbooks pri ze. A former public school teacher\,\nFulbright-Nehru Scholar\, and senior policy analyst for the New York City\nCouncil\, she holds a doctorate in education from Columbia University Teachers\nCollege.\n\nMaura Finkelstein a cultural anthropologist\,\nethnographer and writer\, as well as an Assi stant Professor of Anthropology at\nMuhlenberg College\, in Allentown\, PA . I have an MA in anthropology from\nColumbia University (2005) and a PhD in anthropology from Stanford University\n(2012). Her first book\, The Arc hive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land\nMumbai\, was published with D ue University Press in 2019.Click here to registerFor more information or to request accessibility arrangements\, please contact Emera Bridger Wilso n (elbridge@syr.edu). DTEND:20201012T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260719T235531Z DTSTART:20201012T160000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Secret Stories of the City: Bangalore and Bombay in Conversation UID:RFCALITEM639200877312233263 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;

South Asia Center presents


Mathangi Subram anian and Maura Finkelstein


Secret Stories of the City: Bangalore and Bombay in Conversation


Cities - particularly mega-cities like Bangalore an d Bombay\n- contain identities\, profiles\, and stories that circulate thr ough official\,\npublic channels. But both cities\, like all cities\, have hidden worlds\, unseen\ncorners\, and marginalized residents whose storie s are devalued or erased\nbecause they do not map onto accepted narratives of space and demographics.\nThis conversation between Mathangi Subramania n and Maura Finkelstein will\ndiscuss how ethnographic storytelling can ch allenge accepted narratives by\nhighlighting legitimized and marginalized voices\, both through fiction and\nnonfiction. Drawing on Subramanian’s no vel A People’s History of Heaven and\nFinkelstein’s ethnography\, The Arch ive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land\nMumbai\, this conversation wil l ask: how can ethnography be used as a tool for\nrecovery and visibility? Whose stories get told and whose remain hidden? How do\nwriters choose wh at stories to tell and why? How can we think beyond the\nimagined bounds o f these Indian cities - and\, by extension\, cities around the\nglobe - th rough ethnographic storytelling?


Mathangi Subramanian< /b> is an award winning South Asian\nAmerican author and educator who beli eves stories have the power to change the\nworld. Her novel A People’s History of Heaven was longlisted for the\nPEN/Faulkner Award and the C enter for Fiction First Novel Prize\, and was a\nfinalist for the Lambda L iterary Award and the Valley of Words Prize. Her\nmiddle grades novel D ear Mrs. Naidu won the South Asia Book Award and\nwas shortlisted for the Hindu-Goodbooks prize. A former public school teacher\,\nFulbright-Neh ru Scholar\, and senior policy analyst for the New York City\nCouncil\, sh e holds a doctorate in education from Columbia University Teachers\nColleg e.


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Maura Finkelstein< /strong> a cultural anthropologist\,\nethnographer and writer\, as well as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at\nMuhlenberg College\, in Allent own\, PA. I have an MA in anthropology from\nColumbia University (2005) an d a PhD in anthropology from Stanford University\n(2012). Her first book\, The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land\nMumbai\, was publishe d with Due University Press in 2019.


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For more information or to request accessibility arrangements\, ple ase contact Emera Bridger Wilson (elbridge@syr.edu).

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