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Dr. Pamila Gupta on ‘Stories of Seduction in Touristic Goa’ at the Xavier Centre of Historical Research Monday, 13th January 2014 5:30 pm Bio-Note: Dr. Pamila Gupta is a senior researcher based at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She completed her Ph.D in Socio-cultural Anthropology from Columbia University in 2004 on the topic “The Relic State: St. Francis Xavier and the Politics of Ritual in Portuguese India”. She then took up a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Anthropology at WISER, where she is currently based. Her current research looks at Goan migration, Portuguese decolonization; Portuguese colonial nostalgia and tourism in Mozambique, etc. Synopsis: This presentation attempts to give an overview of the cosmopolitan tourist scene in Goa today by way of a series of stories or brief “ethnographic” encounters that reveal the numerous ways in which the tourist gaze in Goa is a complex one that cannot be tied down to a singular form of spectatorship. Rather, tourism is contributing to new forms of culture and power operating in Goa today and suggests less a story of totalizing or unified global success but rather one of disquieting interruptions. Venue: B B Borkar Road, Alto Porvorim, Goa – 403521 /+91-832-2417772, 2414971/[email protected]/ www.xchr.in /facebook.com/xchr.goa -- FN Phone +91-832-2409490 Mobile +91-9822122436 Blog: http://goabooks.wordpress.com
