BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260806T110515EDT-8395nzkgrl@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260806T150515Z DESCRIPTION:The Faculty of Religious Studies is please to host Prof. Sumath i\nRamaswamy as this year's featured speaker for the South Asian\nReligion s Distinguished Lectureship\, and who will offer a\npresentation titled 'A n Historian among the Goddesses of\nModern India.' The event is open to al l.\nSumathi Ramaswamy is Professor of History at\nDuke University in Durha m\, North Carolina and Executive Director of\nthe North Carolina Center fo r South Asian Studies. She is is the\nauthor of The Goddess and the Nation : Mapping Mother India\n(Duke University Press\, 2010)\, The Lost Land of Lemuria:\nFabulous Geographies\, Catastrophic Histories (University of\nCa lifornia Press\, 2004)\, and Passions of the Tongue: Language\nDevotion in Tamil India\, 1891-1970 (University of California\nPress\, 1997)\, and is also co-founder of a trans-national digital\nnetwork for popular South As ian visual culture called Tasveer Ghar\n(House of Pictures) (www.tasveergh ar.net)\nThe South Asian Religions Distinguished\nLectureship in the Facul ty of Religious Studies\, 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ\nUniversity\, was established to compleme nt the Faculty's strong\nundergraduate and graduate programs on South Asia \, and to encourage\npublic understanding of South Asian religions. It has been made\npossible by the generosity of Professor Robert Stevenson\, Pro fessor\nof Comparative Religion at 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ from 1966 to 1991.\n DTSTART:20110311T223000Z DTEND:20110312T000000Z LOCATION:Birks Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2A7\, 3520 rue Universit y SUMMARY:South Asian Religions Distinguished Lectureship URL:/channels/event/south-asian-religions-distinguishe d-lectureship-171424 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR