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Anthropologist, Partha Chatterjee

The Black Hole of Empire

Director, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

About the Speaker

Excerpt from the webpage curated by William Wheeler on the Presidential Lectures site hosted by Stanford University Libraries:

Partha Chatterjee was born in Calcutta in 1947. He completed a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Rochester in 1972. He is currently Director and Professor of Political Science at The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta, and Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. In addition to a rich bibliography, his curriculum vitae documents, over a number of pages, a career of academic positions in India and the United States; a wealth of visiting professorships across Europe, Asia and North America; and a dizzying list of invited lectures that span the globe. Read More »

Program

Wednesday, November 7 , 7:00 p.m.

Lecture
Bechtel Conference Center
Encina Hall
616 Serra Street
Stanford University


Thursday, November 8 , 9:30 a.m.

Discussion
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
Stanford University

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