Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 7, 2000

Volume 28, Number 27

Lecture and panel to focus on South Asian affairs

The South Asian Studies Committee at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies will present two events this month on the heels of President Clinton's visit to the subcontinent.

The first is the Ghandi Lecture, an annual event designed to promote the discussion of ideas espoused by Mahatma Ghandi. This year's talk on Thursday, April 13, will focus on issues of peace and security.

The featured speaker will be Pakistani physicist Zia Mian from the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Princeton University, who will speak on "Mass Production, Mass Consumption and Mass Destruction: South Asia's Coming of Age" at 4 p.m in Rm. 119 at the McDougal Graduate Student Center in the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St.

The second event -- on Friday, April 14 -- will be the annual Rustgi panel on South Asian Affairs. This year's theme will be "South Asian Politics: Budget and Elections," a look at the recent upheavals in political systems in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

The panel will feature Anita M. Weiss, a professor in the International Studies Program at the University of Oregon; Devesh Kapur, professor of government at Harvard University; and Sumit Ganguly, a visiting fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. The panel will take place 1-3 p.m. in Rm. 203 of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

The Rustgi Lecture is funded by the Moti Lal and Kamla Rustgi Fund, which was established in 1994 by the Rustgi children, Vinod (Yale '75); his wife, Eileen (Yale '77); and Anil (Yale '80). The fund aims to enhance the teaching, research and dissemination of knowledge about South Asia within the Yale community and beyond. In addition to the annual panel, the fund also supports a travel grant to South Asia for Yale students.

The Rustgis have had a long history with Yale. The donors' father, Moti Lal Rustgi, a native of India, was a postdoctoral fellow in nuclear physics at Yale and went on to hold faculty positions at the University of Southern California, Harvard, Banares Hindu University, the State University of New York at Buffalo and Yale.

For more information please call (203) 432-5596 or email barbara.papacoda@yale.edu.

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