Ashish Nangia (Architecture)

Juned Shaikh (History)

Rowan Ellis (Geography)

Anand Yang (Jackson School of International Studies)

Katharyne Mitchell (Geography)

Vikramaditya Prakash (Architecture)

 

The Forum for Urban Studies in South Asia is a collective of humanities and social science students and faculty who share an interest in understanding the processes of urbanization in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Through its reading group, public lecture series, and online presence, the research cluster will reflect on the existing social theories of urbanization, critiquing historical and ethnographical research from the region, and initiate a dialog with students and scholars of urbanization within the UW community and beyond.

Forum for South Asian Studies Discussion Board

Readings are available on the discussion board.

Autumn Quarter
Winter Quarter
Spring Quarter

Autumn Quarter

Readings are available on the discussion board.

First Reading Group Meeting
Oct. 12, 2007, 3:30 pm
Thomson 403

Reading: Khilnani, S. 1997. "Chapter 3: Cities" in The Idea of India (New Delhi: Penguin Books).

Notes from first reading group (pdf)

Oct. 26, 2007, 3:30 pm
Thomson 403
Second Reading Group Meeting
Readings: Davis, Mike. 2006 "Chapter 1: The Urban Climacteric" in Planet of the Slums (London: Verso).

Nov. 16, 2007, 3:30 pm
Gould 208 J
Faculty Colloquium

Vikramaditya Prakash (Architecture)
"Harnessing Growth: Towards a Roadmap for Graphing the Future of India's Cities"

Nov. 29, 2007, 5:30 pm
Thomson Hall 317
Film Screening
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, by Kundan Shah

Winter Quarter

Jan. 28, 2008, 3:30 pm
Thomson Hall 403
Reading Group Meeting
Reading: Jacobs, Jane 1996. "Chapter 2: (Post)colonial Spaces" in Edge of Empire (London: Routledge).

Feb. 1, 2008, 2:00 pm
Communications 120
Faculty Colloquium
Frank Conlon (Professor Emeritus, History)
"Bombay Tramways and Urban Development"

Feb. 8, 2008, 3:30 pm
Thomson Hall 403
Reading Group Meeting
Reading: Mehta, Suketu 2004. Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (London: Vintage).

Feb. 22, 2008, 3:30 pm
Thomson Hall 403
Reading Group Meeting
Reading: Blom-Hansen, T. 2001. "Chapter 2: Bombay and the Politics of Urban Desire" in Wages of Violence: naming and identity in postcolonial Bombay. (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press).

Spring Quarter

April 3, 2008, 3:00 pm
Thomson 403
Reading Group Meeting
Reading: Lefebvre, H. 1991. "Chapter 1: Plan of the Present Work" in The Production of Space (Oxford: Blackwell).

April 24, 2008, 3:00 pm
Thomson 403
Eighth Reading Group Meeting
Reading: Hancock, M. 2002 "Subjects of Heritage in Urban South India" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20: 683-717.

May 15, 2008, 5:30 pm
Thomson 317
Film Screening
Satya, directed By Ram Gopal Varma


June 2, 2008
Location TBA
Reading: Chandra, Vikram, Sacred Games (2007)

June 6, 2008
9:30 am
Communications 202 "Writing a History of 20th Century Architecture: Questions and Methods"
Jean-Louis Cohen (History of Architecture, New York University)
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