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| TITLE: | Lecture by Professor Geraldina Forbes- Camels, Cars, and Curiosities: Unusual Family Photographs from India |
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| DESCRIPTION: | A Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the State University of New York, Oswego, Dr. Geraldine Forbes has edited and introduced several Indian women’s memoirs and autobiographies, including Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal’s An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls Her Life (1994), Sudha Majumdar’s A Pattern of Life: the Memoirs of an Indian Woman (1974) and Because I Am a Woman: A Child Widow’s Memoirs from Colonial India (2011). Her books, Women in Modern India (1996) and Women in Colonial India: Essays on Medicine, Politics, and History (2005), are seminal texts on women in Indian history. Professor Forbes’ current research is on the photographic imagery and the history of Indian women and families. | ||
| DATE: | Thursday, March17, 2011 | ||
| TIME: | 2:15pm to 3:45pm | ||
| LOCATION: | Woody Tanger Auditorium | ||
| CONTACT: | Swapna Banerjee, 718.951.5303 | ||
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| PRICE: | $Free | ||
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