Reconstitutions: Women’s Performance and Aestheticized Caste Politics in Urban South India 
Friday, February 28
12pm - 1pm
Boswell Hall (formerly Morton Hall), 140C

APIA Banh Mi Lecture Series presents Dr. Davesh Soneji of UPenn who will discuss how discursive, political, historical, and aesthetic performance converge in the work of Nrithya Pillai of Chennai. Co-sponsored by AMES: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies.

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Gem of the Ocean
Thursday, February 27 - Sunday, March 1
Location not specified

In Wilson’s penultimate play of the American Century Cycle, the ancestral past is reseeded within the community through Aunt Ester who guides Citizen on a journey to owning his individual past and remembering his collective history.