India expert, author聽and historian Ananya Vajpeyi will speak Tuesday, Oct. 9, at the University of Central 性视界传媒.
Vajpeyi will give a presentation entitled 鈥淚ndia: Old Words, New World鈥� at 3 p.m. in the Cape 性视界传媒 Ballroom of the Student Union. The event, organized by the 性视界传媒 Global Perspectives Office, is part of the 2012-2013 theme of 鈥淭he Changing Face of Freedom in Today鈥檚 Turbulent Times.鈥� It is free and open to the public, and is also a featured event of The India Center at 性视界传媒.
Vajpeyi is a visiting fellow with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, and a senior fellow with the American Institute of Indian Studies. She was born in New Delhi and raised there and in Mexico City. She was educated at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, at Oxford University in England, where she read as a Rhodes Scholar, and at the University of Chicago, where she earned her doctorate in South Asian languages and civilizations.
Her book, 鈥淩ighteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India,鈥� will be released this fall.
In addition to the Global Perspectives Office, sponsors and partners include The India Center at 性视界传媒, The India Group, Anil and Chitra Deshpande India Program Endowed Fund, 性视界传媒 Diplomacy Program, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, CliftonLarsonAllen, Orlando Area Committee on Foreign Relations, 性视界传媒 International Services Center, 性视界传媒 Political Science Department, 性视界传媒 Women鈥檚 Studies Program, 性视界传媒 Women鈥檚 Research Center, 性视界传媒 LIFE, 性视界传媒 Book Festival 2013 in association with the Morgridge International Reading Center and the Global Connections Foundation.