Friday, February 21, 2025
10:00-11:00 AM
Virtual
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https://umich.zoom.us/s/95904657103
How can a university best support the wider project of democracy? And what happens when the politics of the university and the governing logic of a democracy diverge? This event places experiences with democracy and the university in India in conversation with those in the United States.
Banojyotsna Lahiri will speak via zoom from New Delhi, followed by a collective discussion.
Banojyotsna Lahiri works as a senior researcher at Centre for Equity Studies, which is a non-profit and charitable organization. Lahiri graduated from Jawaharlal Nehru University and is currently based in New Delhi, India.
Lahiri is also the long-term girlfriend of Syed Umar Khalid, an Indian student activist, a former research scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University and the former leader of Democratic Students' Union (DSU) at JNU. He has been imprisoned in Tihar Jail for his alleged involvement in the 2020 Delhi Riots since September 2020 and has consistently been denied bail.
As mentioned in The Hindu on July 13, 2024, "Instead she (Lahiri) works tirelessly, using humour and compassion to keep Khalid’s story alive, sometimes telling funny stories that pit Khalid against her other true love, footballer Lionel Messi, and sometimes, sharing intimate conversations from their weekly meetings at Tihar Jail. Khalid is now a household name despite the aversion of mainstream media."
In addition, Alan Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus at U-M, will respond and discuss the similarities with the situation unfolding in the US right now.
Wald is a past Director of American Culture. His field of study was the 20th century US cultural Left and his research areas include Marxism and cultural studies in the mid-20th-century U.S., communism and socialism in U.S. culture, 1930s - 1960s, politics and culture of the New Left of the 1960, left-wing African American, Asian Pacific Islander/American, Latino, Native American, and gay and lesbian writers from the 1930s - 1960s,Jewish American literary radicalism and film noir and the Left.
Professor Wald holds a joint appointment in the departments of English Language and Literature and American Culture (AC).
How can a university best support the wider project of democracy? And what happens when the politics of the university and the governing logic of a democracy diverge? This event places experiences with democracy and the university in India in conversation with those in the United States.
Banojyotsna Lahiri will speak via zoom from New Delhi, followed by a collective discussion.
Banojyotsna Lahiri works as a senior researcher at Centre for Equity Studies, which is a non-profit and charitable organization. Lahiri graduated from Jawaharlal Nehru University and is currently based in New Delhi, India.
Lahiri is also the long-term girlfriend of Syed Umar Khalid, an Indian student activist, a former research scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University and the former leader of Democratic Students' Union (DSU) at JNU. He has been imprisoned in Tihar Jail for his alleged involvement in the 2020 Delhi Riots since September 2020 and has consistently been denied bail.
As mentioned in The Hindu on July 13, 2024, "Instead she (Lahiri) works tirelessly, using humour and compassion to keep Khalid’s story alive, sometimes telling funny stories that pit Khalid against her other true love, footballer Lionel Messi, and sometimes, sharing intimate conversations from their weekly meetings at Tihar Jail. Khalid is now a household name despite the aversion of mainstream media."
In addition, Alan Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus at U-M, will respond and discuss the similarities with the situation unfolding in the US right now.
Wald is a past Director of American Culture. His field of study was the 20th century US cultural Left and his research areas include Marxism and cultural studies in the mid-20th-century U.S., communism and socialism in U.S. culture, 1930s - 1960s, politics and culture of the New Left of the 1960, left-wing African American, Asian Pacific Islander/American, Latino, Native American, and gay and lesbian writers from the 1930s - 1960s,Jewish American literary radicalism and film noir and the Left.
Professor Wald holds a joint appointment in the departments of English Language and Literature and American Culture (AC).
| Building: | Off Campus Location |
|---|---|
| Location: | Virtual |
| Event Type: | Lecture / Discussion |
| Tags: | Asia, Democracy, India |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Center for South Asian Studies, International Institute, Asian Languages and Cultures |
