Lots of stuff going on at Northwestern University sponsored by South Asian Students Association -- festivals, our very own Third I coordinator Dr. Neeraja Aravamudan, Odissi, and talks on Asian-Black cultural exchange. Plus, a modern Bharat Natyam performance not listed below on May 4 at 8PM NWU McCormick Auditorium with www.RagaMala.net. Who wants to go with me and infiltrate the ranks?
1) ~~~HOLI~~~ Come celebrate and have a good time with friends!! When: Sunday, April 25th Time: 12:00PM - 2:00PM Where: The Firepit Presented By Asian & Asian American Student Services Asian Pacific American Heritage Brown Bag Series 2) Neeraja Aravamudan, PhD Assistant Director, Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University "The Dating Dilemma among South Asians, Accommodating and Resisting Social Expectations" Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:00 PM -- Multicultural Center Co-Sponsored by SASA For more information please contact Anita Banerji at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3) Ananya Chatterjea Professor of Theatre and Dance University of Minnesota Lecture: Contestations: Constructing an Historical Narrative for Odissi (Odissi is a "classical" Indian dance form of Orissa State in India) Date: Friday, April 16, 5pm Location: Ballroom, Marjorie Ward Marshall Dance Center Performance Workshop: Searching for the Secular in Dance: Notes from Dancing Sita/Reinventing a Body Disappeared (Sita is the celebrated and critiqued female protagonist of the Hindu epic, The Ramayana, and is the subject of a theatre piece that Professor Chatterjea wrote and directed.) Date: Saturday, April 17, 11:30 am Location: Ballroom, Marjorie Ward Marshall Dance Center Sponsored by The Department of Performance Studies, The Dance Program, The Asian American Studies Program, and Asian/Asian American Student Services 4) "Model" Minority Meets the "Real" Minority Speaker Series Presented by: Asian and Asian American Student Services & African American Student Affairs Ronald Richardson Director of African American Studies & Professor of History, Boston University Global Dimensions of the Black-Asian Experience: Cultural Exchanges Through Time Thursday, April 29, 2004, 7:00pm McCormick Tribune Center Forum-1870 Campus Drive & Michael Thornton Professor of Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison Asian American Press Perspectives of Blacks: Race, Class, & Isolation Thursday, May 6, 2004, 7:30pm McCormick Tribune Center Forum-1870 Campus Drive Co-Sponsored by: Asian American Studies, the Multicultural Center, Asian and Middle East Studies, Medill School of Journalism & African American Studies For more information please call 491-8062 or 467-7583 ------------------------------------------------ visit http://www.geocities.com/sapacchicago email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe sapac" in msg body to unsubscribe
