India: Democracy = Human Rights? A Panel Discussion on October 15

[Prerna Grover]

Dear all,

AID Pittsburgh, in collaboration with Amnesty International Group 39, is excited to be hosting a panel discussion on :

India: Democracy =  Human Rights?

A panel discussion addressing whether democracy provides a voice to poor people, women, and ethnic minorities in India and other developing countries. 

Time: Wednesday, October 15, at 7:00 pm

Venue: Allen Hall (Room 321), 3941 O'Hara Street, University of Pittsburgh

Panelists:

Dr. Robert Hayden is an anthropologist of law and politics, and is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. He has done extensive fieldwork in India, Yugoslavia, and among the Senecas of New York state and the subject matter of his research has ranged from religion and culture at the Allegany Reservation, to an ethnographic study of the council of a caste of nomads in rural India, to an ethnographic study of a socialist labor court in Yugoslavia. His current research is focussed on an international, interdisciplinary and comparative study on competitive sharing of religious sites, called “Antagonistic Tolerance”, in multiple countries including Bulgaria, India, Portugal and Turkey. Professor Hayden also holds appointments on the faculty of the Law School and in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and is Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies.

Ms. Pavithra Tantrigoda is a Ph.D. Student in Literary and Cultural Studies at the Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University. She is interested in theories of globalization, more specifically, the racialization and feminization of labor within the structures of transnational capital. Her research examines the spaces occupied by third world women and female migrants within the transnational sites of labor and capital, their embodied relation to work, the physical and mental costs of labor, and their modes of resistance to exploitation.

  

Please see the attached flyer for details, or visit the event page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/464894183650499/

Please also share this event with anyone who would be interested! We hope to see many of you at the event!

Thanks,

Prerna Grover

AID Pittsburgh

For questions or more details, please contact us at aidpit...@gmail.com