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Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses
Southeast Asia Studies Seminar series: “Refugee Worlding: Vietnamese American (dis)place-making since 1975”
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… Texas. It examines transnational financial, migratory and material flows among Vietnamese Americans, and how and why … concurrently longing to establish roots and presence. This unmoored lens offers insight into the complex and comparative … examining connections between financial, bodily and material mobilities in and between Southeast Asia and the …
South Asian Studies Council
Graduating Students Recognized for Research on South Asia
… With a remarkable scope that moves from primary source material in 11th century languages to an analysis of the role … major advised by Phyllis Granoff. His essay, titled “Memory in Indian Narrative: A Collection of Essays”, is a … a diversity of positions in the economic, cultural and social worlds of people. In an economic landscape of …
Council on African Studies
Bringing an early-modern African queen into the limelight
… In her scholarship, Fromont specializes on the visual, material, and religious culture of Africa and Latin America … Great Civilizations.” Fromont recently spoke with Yale News about the new docuseries and its relationship to her own … with you about? Fromont:  One example had to do with the social politics of modesty. Many of the women portrayed, for …
Program in Agrarian Studies, South Asian Studies Council
Agrarian Studies Colloquium: Dixita Deka "Arms to Farms: Making of the Farming Collectives and Post-Insurgency Recovery in Northeast India"
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… between countryside and city, and patterns of cultural and material exchange, extraction, migration, credit, legal … these meanings changed historically and what symbolic and material weight do they bear? Meetings are Fridays, 11am -1pm … she has completed her MPhil (2017) and PhD (2021) in Social Sciences from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences …
Fox International Fellowship
Bella Zisere
… Zisere Ms. Zisere will analyze the concept of collective memory of a community using as an example the Jewish … Baltics is dispersed and placed in different political and social contexts and corresponds to a certain number of … phenomenon, and extremely sensitive to a political and social context rather than a historic truth. Ms. Zisere is …
Council on Southeast Asia Studies
Refugee Worlding: Vietnamese American (dis)place-making since 1975
… Texas. It examines transnational financial, migratory and material flows among Vietnamese Americans, and how and why … concurrently longing to establish roots and presence. This unmoored lens offers insight into the complex and comparative … examining connections between financial, bodily and material mobilities in and between Southeast Asia and the …
Council on Middle East Studies
Iran: A Modern History
Publication Year 2017
… of the language, Iran managed to preserve a collective memory of its past, which is also rather unusual. For … at the same time, but both adopted Arabic. Basically, the memory of Islamic conquest became the foundation myth for the … them. What was poetry’s role in preserving this collective memory? Iran developed a strong poetry tradition very early. …