[act-ma] Politics of Development: South Asia Today - Sept 15 4pm, MIT

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The Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia
&

The South Asia Forum at MIT

 

Cordially invite you to our
 

Annual South Asia Day celebration

 

Politics of Development: South Asia Today

 
 

4pm September 15, 2007

 

Bldg. 10-105 - MIT

 
Panelists:

 
Farida Khan , Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Sahar Shafqat - Associate Professor of Political Science at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Garga Chatterjee , Graduate Student in Neurobiology, Harvard University

 
 

Farida Khan is an economist with specialization in international trade and development, and has
worked and written on environmental and indigenous peoples' movements in Bangladesh . 

 
Sahar Shafqat is a scholar of nationalism and ethnic conflict and is an active member of the
progressive Pakistani community in the US .

 
Garga Chatterjee is a doctoral student of Cognitive Psychology at Harvard University.  He has been
active in the resistance to neoliberal forces in West Bengal and is one of the founders of
www.sanhati.com

 
For further information e-mail: asur at mit.edu