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Special Seminar
Date and Time
May 3, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Open to the public
No RSVP required
Speaker
Achin Vanaik - Professor of International Relations and Global Politics, Political Science Department at Delhi University
About the speaker: Achin Vanaik, fellow and board member of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam is one of the most important analysts of contemporary Indian politics. The author of The Painful Transition: Bourgeois Democracy in India (1990), The Furies of Indian Communalism: Religion, Modernity and Secularization (1997) and Globalization and South Asia (2004.)
Vanaik has served on the board of directors of GreenPeace (India), and as an assistant editor for The Times of India. He writes regularly for the Economic and Political Weekly, The Times and The Telegraph and has written extensively on the nuclear question in south Asia.
Dr. Vanaik's lecture is co-sponsored with the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University.
Location
Daniel and Nancy Okimoto Conference Room
Encina Hall, 3rd floor, east wing
616 Serra St.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
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Topics: Democracy | Globalization | International Relations | Secularization and modernity | India | South Asia
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