September 13, 2016
All Day
160 Enarson Classroom Building (2009 Millikin Rd)
Tinaz Pavri
Division Chair of Social Science and Humanities
Founding Director, Asian Studies Program
Spelman College
Abstract: “By the early nineties, India's economy had taken its first faltering steps towards liberalization, and globalization's reach had found and touched significant swathes of its society. The decades-long post-independence era of Nehru and Gandhi was finally and firmly over, and Bombay had become Mumbai” -- from Bombay in the Age of Disco: City, Community, Life.
Bio: Dr. Tinaz Pavri, Division Chair of Social Science and Humanities, Spelman College is an alumni of The Ohio State University and has been at Spelman College since 1995. Dr. Pavri’s research and publication interests lie in the area of security studies and conflict resolution (particularly ethno-nationalist and protracted conflicts), questions of national identity and the international political economy.
Bio: Dr. Tinaz Pavri, Division Chair of Social Science and Humanities, Spelman College is an alumni of The Ohio State University and has been at Spelman College since 1995. Dr. Pavri’s research and publication interests lie in the area of security studies and conflict resolution (particularly ethno-nationalist and protracted conflicts), questions of national identity and the international political economy.
Free and open to the public.
This event is sponsored in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant for The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.
