Amar Kanwar
Of Poems and Prophesies January 12 – February 23, 2003
Thursday, January 30, 2003, 6:30 pm
Lecture
Gandhi's Last Words Vinay Lal
Location: Cobb Hall, Room 402 (down the hall from the gallery)
Lal is a professor of History at University of California, Los Angeles. He writes on a wide variety of subjects for periodicals in the U.S., India and Britain. Some of his recent essays have been collected in The Poetics and Politics of Dissent: Essays on Indian History and Culture. Other publications include Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in a New Global Economy and the forthcoming History of History: The Career and Politics of a Form of Knowledge in Modern India. His talk will focus on the context and latent politicization of Gandhi's death.
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