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 AffairsSouth Asia Center presentsA udacious Raconteurs of Colonial India: A Discussion with\nLeela Prasad\n\n The Audacious Raconteur (Cornell University Press\,\n2020) engages history \, anthropology\, literary studies\, and religion to argue\nthat even the most hegemonic circumstances cannot suppress “audacious\nraconteurs”: skil led storytellers who fashion narrative spaces that allow\nthemselves to re main sovereign and beyond subjugation. \; Four Indian narrators of dif ferent castes and\nreligious backgrounds who lived in colonial India—an ay ah\, a lawyer\, an\narchaeologist\, and a librarian—show that the audaciou s raconteur is a necessary\nethical and artistic figure in human experienc e.\n\nJoanne Punzo Waghorne\, Professor of Religion at Syracuse\nUniversit y\, will talk with Dr. Prasad about her book and its contributions. \; Leela PrasadProfessor\, Religious Studies \;Duke UniversityLeela\nPras ad is \;Professor of Religious Studies\nat Duke University.  \;Her  \;primary\ninterests are the anthropology of ethics\, with a focus on South Asia\,\ncolonialism &\; decoloniality\, \;prison pedagogy &a mp\; Gandhi\, and\nreligion &\; modernity. Her work is at the intersect ions of religious studies\,\nanthropology\, history and literature. \; \n\n Co-sponsored by the Department of Religion.Click here to registerFor more information\, please contact Emera Bridger Wilson\, elbridge@syr.edu or to request additional accommodations\, please contact Morgan Bicknell\, mebickne@syr.edu. DTEND:20210223T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260510T232233Z DTSTART:20210223T173000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Audacious Raconteurs of Colonial India: A Discussion with Leela Pra sad UID:RFCALITEM639140377534560894 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

South Asia Center presents


Audacious Raconteurs o f Colonial India: A Discussion with\nLeela Prasad


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The Audacious Raconteur (Cornell University Press\,\n2 020) engages history\, anthropology\, literary studies\, and religion to a rgue\nthat even the most hegemonic circumstances cannot suppress “audaciou s\nraconteurs”: skilled storytellers who fashion narrative spaces that all ow\nthemselves to remain sovereign and beyond subjugation. \; Four Ind ian narrators of different castes and\nreligious backgrounds who lived in colonial India—an ayah\, a lawyer\, an\narchaeologist\, and a librarian—sh ow that the audacious raconteur is a necessary\nethical and artistic figur e in human experience.


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Joanne Punzo Waghorne\, Professor of Religion at Syracuse\nUniversity\, will talk with Dr. Prasad about her book and its contributions. \;


Lee la Prasad

Professor\, Religious Studies \;

Duke U niversity


Leela\nPrasad is \;Professor of Religious Stud ies\nat Duke University.  \;Her \;primary\ninterests are the anthr opology of ethics\, with a focus on South Asia\,\ncolonialism &\; decol oniality\, \;prison pedagogy &\; Gandhi\, and\nreligion &\; mode rnity. Her work is at the intersections of religious studies\,\nanthropolo gy\, history and literature. \;

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Co-sponsored by the Department of Religion.


Click here to register


For more information\, please contact Emera Bridger Wilson\, elbridge@syr .edu or to request additional accommodations\, please contact Morgan Bickn ell\, mebickne@syr.edu.

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