Events

TBA: on American Isam

Prof. Ingrid Mattson
Director of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Hatford Seminary

Date: April 11th
Time: 7pm
Place: McCord Auditorium

India's Economic Miracle: Will It Endure?

The Tower Center invites you to attend a briefing on the Indian economy with Professor Prakash Sarangi

Date: Weds. Nov. 2nd
Time: 5:30-8:00pm
Place: Jones Great Hall, Meadows Museum

Prakash Sarangi is Director of International Affairs at the University of Hyderabad and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor. Professor Sarangi will evaluate India’s 21st century economic boom in terms of internal economic and political development. Dr. Sarangi is spending this year at SMU as a visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science and as a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Tower Center. Dr. Sarangi specializes in Indian Party Politics, Globalization, and Political Theory.

Register here

Archaeological Reflections on the History of Central Asia

by Lothar von Falkenhausen

Date: Thursday, 20 October 2011

Time: 6:00 pm

Place: Jean and Bob Smith Auditorium, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University

Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen is Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History and Associate Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. He obtained his MA in East Asian Studies and his PhD in anthropology from Harvard University, and has also attended the University of Bonn, Peking University, and Kyoto University. His specialty is East Asian archaeology, with an emphasis on the great Bronze Age of China (ca. 2000-200 BC), and his volume, "Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius" was awarded the SAA Book Award in 2009.

This lecture explores some of the grand themes in Central Asian archaeology in light of new scholarship.  As we begin to look more closely at the actual inhabitants of the region, we find that we may have to abandon currently widespread romantic notions emphasizing the role of long-distance trade and the prosperity it allegedly brought to the region.

China IP: Now!

Dedman School of Law Presents:
Annual Symposium on Chinese Intellectual Property Law

Featuring panels of international speakers including academics, judges, and lawyers from the major players in the Chinese intellectual property arena.

Date: Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011
Time: 9am-4pm
Place: Hillcrest Classroom, Underwood Law Library

Registration cost is $100.  Register here.

Tower Center Roundtable

One Hundred Years since the 1911 Republican Revolution: Nation and State Building in Republic of China

Where: Room 200, Collins Executive Education Center, SMU, 3150 Binkley Ave.

When:  4:30 – 6:00pm, Thursday, September 15, 2011                                                                                   

The year 1911 was a pivotal moment in history that marked China’s transformation from a traditional empire to a modern nation state, thereby ending the two thousand yearlong era of Chinese Imperialism and unleashing a host of economic, political, and social changes in China and in other areas of the world which continue to reverberate today.  In many important ways, the 1911 Revolution was the culmination a protracted struggle for national independence, nation and state building, constitutionalism, republicanism, and economic development, all of which continue to be central to current political discussions in Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan), People’s Republic of China, and indeed in much of the rest of the world.

Discussants:

Anne Chao, Rice University,

Joseph Esherick, University of San Diago

Ling Shiao, SMU

Harold Tanner, North Texas University

Peter Worthing, Texas Christian University

Moderator:

Hiroki Takeuchi, SMU

Alternative Ramayanas

Variations in an Epic Tradition

A One-Day Conference Sponsored by South Asia Research and Information Institute and the Asian Studies Program

When: Saturday, Sept. 24th, 9-5pm
Where: McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall

Presentations: 

The Ramayana in Southeast Asian Performance and
Reworking the Ramayana in Puppetry in West Java
Kathy Foley (UC Santa Cruz)

A la mode: Medieval Jain Ramayanas
Phyllis Granoff (Yale University)

Diving into the Lake: On the Necessity, Joy, and Terror
of (Re)Translating Tulsidas' Ramcaritmanas
Philip Lutgendorf (University of Iowa)

On the Implications of Kulacekara Alvar's Praise of
Rama's Killing of Sambuka
S. Palaniappan (SARII)

When All is Said and Done: Rama is still God
V. Narayana Rao (Emory University)

Classical and Modern Ramayana Stories in S. India
Paula Richman (Oberlin College)

Chaired by: Steven Lindquist (SMU)

Attendance is free and open to the public, but registration is required by Sept. 17th.  Please include names and number of people by email at: ramayanas@sarii.org

Download flier here
Paper abstracts here
More info at: www.sarii.org

Entangled Empires

The Department of History Presents:

Entangled Empires: Thoughts on the Iberians in Three Oceans in the 16th Century
Dr. Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History, UCLA

Date: Tuesday, Sept. 20th, 2011
Time: Reception at 5:30pm, Lecture at 6pm
Place: McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall



Past Events 

TOWER CENTER SEMINAR
with coffee & cookies

“Globalized Economy and Localized Politics:
New Trends in the Indian Party System”
Prakash Sarangi, Ph.D.

Professor Prakash Sarangi is Director of International Affairs at the University of Hyderabad and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor.  He is spending this year at SMU as a visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science and as a Senior Fellow in the Tower Center.  Dr. Sarangi specializes in Indian Party Politics, Globalization, and Political Theory.

Date: Thurs., March 24th
Time: 4pm
Place: Tower Center Boardroom

RSVP to the Tower Center (tower@smu.edu) required.

Justice Without Lawyers

Everyday Life in the Kolkata, India Family Court

Srimati Basu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Women's Studies and Anthropology
University of Kentucky

Date: March 25, 2011
Time: 5pm
Place: McCord Auditorium

Sponsored by the Anthropology Club, Anthropology Department, Women's and Gender Studies, Asian Studies Program, and Amnesty International

Double Agents, Body Doubles, and Bad Brahmins

A Brief History of Brahminical Anti-Brahminism in India

Christian Novetzke, Ph.D.
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington

Date: Friday, April 8th, 2011
Time: 3:30pm
Place: Fondren Science 153

Sponsored by Asian Studies and Felix Chen

The Japanese Earthquake

Speakers:
3/11 + The Future of Japan: Personal Reflections
Dr. William M. Tsutsui, Dean of Dedman College:

Scientific Insight into the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Dr. Brian W. Stump, Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences:

Date: Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
Time: 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Place: Room 123, Fondren Science Building

Admission:   Free for students with SMU ID or under 18; $10 for others (tickets will be on sale between 6:00pm and 6:30pm).

All funds raised by Japanese Association will go to American Red Cross through SMU’s Institute for the Study of Earth and Man

Khubilai Khan: The Man and the Myth

Morris Rossabi, Ph.D.
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Columbia University

Date: Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
Time: 4pm
Place: Dedman Life Sciences 132

Sponsored by Asian Studies and Felix Chen

Wartime Displacement

Wartime Displacement in the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945: 
Refugees and Conscripted Laborers

Keith Schoppa, Ph.D.
Doehler Chair in Asian History
Loyola College

Date: Friday, March 4th, 2011
Time: 4pm
Place: Fondren Science (FOSC) 155

Sponsored by Asian Studies and Felix Chen

Co-sponsored by the History, Human Rights, and the Tower Center

Islam and Power in Colonial India

The Making and Unmaking of a Muslim Prince(ss)

Barbara D. Metcalf, Ph.D.
President, American Historical Association
Professor of History Emerita, University of Michigan

Date: Nov 11, 2010
Time: 4pm
Place: McCord Auditorium (Dallas Hall 306)


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