Cullum Lecture Series continues

The Cullum Lecture Series focusing on South Asia will continue with speaker Dr. Harold Gould Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 11:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. in the Butler Lecture Hall.

As the speaker for Tuesday’s Cullum Lecture Series event, Dr. Gould will present Why Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia? Where It All Went Wrong at 11:30 a.m., and The Kashmir Tragedy: Why It Won’t Go Away at 7 p.m. Other speakers for the month of February include Dr. Gautam Kundu, Dr. Michael Bishku, and Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad.

Dr. Harold Gould is a native of Boston and is a visiting scholar in South Asian Studies at the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. He received his doctorate in philosophy and anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis. As part of his focus on South Asian studies, Dr. Gould has written seven books, 100 journal articles, and over 50 opinion and editorial pieces.

An associate professor of English at Georgia Southern University, Dr. Gautam Kundu obtained a terminal degree in modern American literature and film. His specialty is literature of the 1920s and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Dr. Kundu attended the School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College and has published essays on Indian cinema.

Dr. Michael Bishku is an associate professor of history at Augusta State University. He received his PhD in 1981 from New York University in history and Middle East languages and literature. Dr. Bishku has received Fulbright grants to study in Morocco and Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Turkey, and Pakistan, and has received National Endowment for the Humanities grants to do research at Duke University and the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently the vice president-elect of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies.

Professor of Political Science at Hampton University Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad has been a senior research associate at MRM, Inc., a social science research and consulting firm focusing on contemporary South Asian and Middle Eastern developments. He also is an associate professor at the National Institute of Public Administration in Karachi, Pakistan. He received a PhD in political science from the University of Chicago and has published seven books and numerous papers and articles on politics of Islamic resurgence and Islamic developments in South Asia and the Middle East.

For more information, call Dr. Michael Bishku at 737-1709 or Automation Librarian Jeff Heck at 667-4905, or go online to http://www.aug.edu/library/cullum2004/about.html.

Cullum Lecture Series Calendar
Tuesday, Feb. 10 – Dr. Harold Gould, University of Virginia
11:30 a.m. – Why Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia? Where It All Went Wrong
7 p.m. – The Kashmir Tragedy: Why It Won’t Go Away

Tuesday, Feb. 17 – Film and speaker
11:30 a.m. – Ghare Baire (English title, Home and the World)
7 p.m. – Dr. Gautam Kundu, Georgia Southern University; The Politics of Indian Nationalism in Fiction and Film: Rabindranath Tangore, Satyajit Ray and Ghare Baire

Tuesday, Feb. 24 – Film and commentary
11:30 a.m. – Dr. Michael Bishku, Augusta State University; commentary on Muhammad Ali Jinnah (first half of film)
7 p.m. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah (second half of film)

Thursday, Feb. 26 – Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad, Hampton University
11:30 a.m. – Religion and Politics in Pakistan
7 p.m. – The Prospects for Democracy in Pakistan

Tuesday, March 2 – Dr. Sudha Ratan, Augusta State University
11:30 a.m. – Ethnic Identity and the Politics of Sri Lanka

Tuesday, March 9 – Film and commentary
11:30 a.m. – Dr. Mary McCormack, Augusta State University; commentary on A Passage to India (first half of film)
7 p.m. – A Passage to India (second half of film)

Monday, March 15 – Performance in Performing Arts Theater
7:30-9 p.m. – Nritaya Malika (Garland of Dances); cosponsored by Lyceum and Cullum committees

Thursday, March 18 – Festival (location TBA)
Time (TBA) – International Festival; cosponsored by the International Club and the Cullum Committee

Thursday, March 25 – Dr. Jacob Abadi, U.S. Air Force Academy
11:30 a.m. – The British and the Muslim League
7 p.m. – The British and the Indian National Congress

Thursday, April 1 – Dr. Selima Sultana, Auburn University
11:30 a.m. – Bangladesh: A Small Land, but with Large Dreams
7 p.m. – The Status of Women in Bangladesh: The Dark and Lighter Sides of Bengali Nationalism

Tuesday, April 13 – Dr. Muralidharan Jagadeesan, Medical College of Georgia
7 p.m. – Health Issues in South Asia

Thursday, April 15 – Film and speaker
7 p.m. – Drs. Janice and Ray Whiting, Augusta State University; speak on Erotic Art of India

Tuesday, April 20 – Dr. Michael Bishku, Augusta State University
11:30 a.m. – Modern History and Politics of Afghanistan

Tuesday, April 27 – Film
11:30 a.m. – Mystic Masseur – introduction by Dr. Sudha Ratan, Augusta State University
7 p.m. – Mystic Masseur

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