Sheth Lecture in Indian Studies
The Halle Institute for Global Research was pleased to host the 18th annual Sheth Lecture in Indian Studies with Chitra Divakaruni, best-selling author and professor of creative writing at the University of Houston. She spoke on "Celebrating Diversity, Building Bridges" and shared her immigrant experience through the themes found in her books: loneliness, racism, the desire to conform, the excitement of being in a new country, the opening up of possibilities as a woman, and the loss of extended family.
The 2018 Sheth Lecture in Indian Studies is sponsored by the Sheth Family Foundation, the Hightower Speaker Fund, and the Emory Global and Postcolonial Studies program.
Established in 2000, the annual Sheth Lecture in Indian Studies is made possible by the generous support of the Sheth Family Foundation, which is dedicated to raising awareness of the culture and history of India and South Asia and to serving the Indian community in Atlanta and the Southeast.
Past speakers have included distinguished guests such as author Salman Rushdie, internationally acclaimed film director Deepa Mehta, and prominent environmental human rights activist Medha Patkar, among others.
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk |
September 23, 2018 | Chitra Divakaruni, author and professor of creative writing | "Celebrating Diversity and Building Bridges" |
September 24, 2017 | T.N. Ninan, Chairman and former Editor of Business Standard | The Challenges of Being a Latecomer: When the rules have changed |
October 2, 2016 | Nipun Mehta, founder of ServiceSpace | Gandhi 3.0: Bridging the Internet and the Inner-Net |
October 5, 2014 | Sumantra Ghosal, film maker, and Malavika Sarukkai, dancer-choreographer | The Unseen Sequence: Exploring Bharatanatyam through the Art of Malavika Sarukkai |
April 14, 2013 | Sadhguru Vasudev, founder, Isha Foundation | Inner Management: The Missing Link to Leadership Excellence - VIDEO |
February 12, 2012 | K. Srinath Reddy, president, Public Health Foundation of India | Universal Health Coverage in an Emerging Economy: Will India Accomplish Its Goal? - VIDEO |
2010 | Deepa Mehta, filmmaker | Approaching Midnight: Making Salman Rushdie’s Novel, Midnight’s Children, into a Feature Film |
2009 | Medha Patkar, environmental and human rights activist | People's Movements: The State and Civil Society |
2008 | Shashi Tharoor, former UN diplomat, author, novelist, and political leader | The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cell Phone: The Transformation of India in the 21st Century |
2007 | Salman Rushdie, novelist | The Composite Artist |
2006 | Mira Nair, filmmaker | Between Two Worlds |
2005 | Gyan Prakash, historian | The Modern City in Ruins: The Memory of Cosmopolitan Bombay |
2004 | Vidya Dehejia, art historian | The Body Adorned: Secular and Sacred |
2003 | Ashutosh Varshney, political scientist | Hindu-Muslim Violence: Gujarat Riots in Perspective |
2002 | Amitav Ghosh, novelist | The Greatest Sorrow: Times of Joy Recalled in Wretchedness |
2001 | Vasudha Narayanan, history of religions scholar | Diversity, Diaspora, and Dharma |