Presented by The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy
Over the last few years, India has witnessed a resurgence of linguistic tensions nationally. Regional parties more frequently refer to linguistic identities to resist the centralization of political power and respond to India's delimitation plans. Language politics is now re-emerging on the national stage in ways that are both familiar and unfamiliar. This workshop examines language politics in contemporary India and our understanding of its postcolonial history.
Speakers include:
- Akhil P. Veetil, Ph.D. Candidate in South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- Deepika Padmanabhan, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Weatherhead Scholars Program at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
- Gregory Goulding, Associate Professor of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- Ketaki Jaywant, Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Chair, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- Lisa Mitchell, Professor of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- Maya Tudor, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Oxford
- Pritipuspa Mishra, Associate Professor of History, University of Southampton
- Rama Mantena, Professor of History, University of Illinois Chicago
- Sumathi Ramaswamy, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of History, Duke University
Cosponsored by Penn's Department of South Asia Studies, Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory, Center for the Advanced Study of India, and Wolf Humanities Center.
