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Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 21:04:50 -0700 From: Laurie Sears <ljsears at msn.com>
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The Project for Critical Asian Studies and the Simpson Center for the
Humanities at the University of Washington present:

The Crisis in the Study of History and Epigraphy of Early ("Classical")
South and Southeast Asia in North American Universities

A Roundtable Discussion in Honor of Romila Thapar, Katz Distinguished
Visiting Professor in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of History,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 Communications 202 1:00-3:00 pm Reception to follow

Chaired by Boreth Ly (Assistant Professor of Asian Art, University of Utah
and Project for Critical Asian Studies Fellow, UW) and Laurie Sears
(Professor of History, UW)


This roundtable discussion seeks to present and to analyze the crisis in
the transmission and the teaching of the early or so-called "classical"
history of South and Southeast Asia in North American universities. In
addition, we hope to get an assessment of comparable situations in other
academic contexts from different parts of the world. Scholars focusing on
early South and Southeast Asian history from different disciplinary
backgrounds will present short discussions about their respective fields
of study, and then a distinguished panel of discussants working on East
Asian and European subjects will offer their thoughts in light of
comparative studies in their respective fields. Some of the questions that
this roundtable seeks to raise are:

· What implications does this "crisis" have regarding required training or
well-rounded scholars of early histories?

· Is the study of epigraphy simply one of the colonialist projects?

· Is there room for a true interdisciplinary scholar-intellectual in North
American universities?

· Is the academic world becoming increasingly myopic?

· What comes after the "Faustian drive"?

· How might we bridge the gap between the past and the more immediate
present?

· What can we do to fill in the necessary lacunae?

  Participants: Romila Thapar, Katz Distinguished Visiting Professor in the
Humanities Richard Salomon, Professor of Asian Languages & Literature and
Buddhist Studies Colett Cox, Professor of Asian Languages & Literature and
Buddhist Studies Charles Keyes, Professor of Anthropology and Buddhist
Studies Peter Lape, Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Curator, Burke
Museum Vicente Rafael, Professor of History K. Sivaramakrishnan, Associate
Professor of Anthropology

Discussants: Patricia Ebrey, Professor of Chinese History, Carol Thomas,
Professor of Ancient Greek History, Robert Stacey, Professor of Medieval
History, Sandra Joshel, Associate Professor of Roman History, and William
Boltz, Professor of Asian Languages & Literature and Classical Chinese

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