[Fdu] Dissent in Modi's India and crisis in JNUniversity

[Cynthia Wright]

*Dissent in Modi's India*

10am - 12pm, Friday March 11, 2016
Jackman Humanities Building, Main Floor Conference Room (100A), 170 St.
George Street

Speakers: Chinnaiah Jangam (Carleton University), Idrisa Pandit
(University of Waterloo), Malavika Kasturi (University of Toronto)

Moderator: Radhika Mongia (York University

Please join scholars of South Asia from U of T, York, Waterloo and
Carleton for a discussion on freedom of speech and the public sphere in
contemporary India: the JNU crisis and threats to cultural and
educational institutions; the targeting of Dalits and the events leading 
to the suicide of Rohith Vemula; the status of Muslims and the 
situationin Kashmir.

The event aims to foster a cross-regional, interdisciplinary, and public 
conversation on the university's role as a space for critical thinking 
and minority voices. All are welcome.





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