[acc-cca-l] Public Online Lecture: Race in Film & Media Lecture (University of Calgary)

[Department Head, Communication, Media and Film]

The Department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary presents its annual Race in Film and Media Lecture by Ramnarayan S. Rawat, University of Delaware:

"Caste, Untouchability, and the Language of Liberalism: Recovering the Dalit Public Sphere in British North India"

Friday, February 2, 2024 (2:00-3:30 p.m. MT) Online via Zoom.

Register at: https://ucalgary.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcuf-CurTksG9UZMh5j53X6TWqErjHEbRtc

This event will be streamed via Zoom but not recorded.

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Bio: Ramnarayan S. Rawat is a historian of South Asia at the University of Delaware with research interests in caste, race, and democratic practices. He is completing his second book, ‘The Language of Liberalism: The Lost History of the Dalit Public Sphere in Late Colonial India’. He is also co-editing the second Dalit Studies volume, Dalit Journeys of Dignity: Religion, Freedom, and Caste’ which is forthcoming in fall 2024. Rawat recently co-edited book, Dalit Studies, with colleague, K. Satyanarayana, based in Hyderabad (India), and published by Duke University Press, 2016. His first book, Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India (2011), was awarded Joseph W Elder Book prize (2009) in Social Sciences given by the American Institute of Indian Studies and it also received Honorable Mention in the Bernard Cohn book prize (2013), Association of Asian Studies.




Dr. Samantha C. Thrift

Associate Professor (Teaching)
Head, Department of Communication, Media and Film
University of Calgary
Mohkinstsis (Calgary)



The University of Calgary, located in the heart of Southern Alberta, both acknowledges and pays tribute to the traditional territories of the peoples of Treaty 7, which include the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprised of the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations). The City of Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta (districts 5 and 6).
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