Arjun Appadurai serves as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at The New School in New York City\, where he also holds a Disting uished Professorship as the John Dewey Professor in the Social Sciences. Ap padurai was born and educated in Bombay. He earned his B.A. from Brandeis U niversity in 1967\, and his M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1976) from the Universit y of Chicago.
During his academic career\, he has held professorial c hairs at Yale University\, the University of Chicago\, and the University o f Pennsylvania. He has authored numerous books and scholarly articles inclu ding Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (20 06\, Duke University Press) and Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization\, (1996\, University of Minnesota Press\; 1997\, Oxf ord University Press\, Delhi). His previous scholarly publications have cov ered such topics as religion\, cuisine\, agriculture and mass culture in In dia.
A reception following the Arjun Appadurai lecture will be held a t\, and is sponsored by\, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery\, UBC.
Arjun Appadurai’s lecture is co-sponsored by the Affect Research Gr
oup (UBC and SFU)\;
the India and South Asian Research Group\; the Cen
tre for the Study of Historical Consciousness\; the Museum of Anthropology\
; the Department of Anthropology\; and the Department of Theatre\, Creative
Writing and Film\, UBC.
Organized by Manuel Pina a nd William Wood\, Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory\, The U niversity of British Columbia.
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