{"249351":{"#nid":"249351","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Fulbright Lecture - ANITA SINGH","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Outreach Lecturing Fund (OLF) allows Fulbright Visiting Scholars who are currently in the United States to travel to other higher education institutions across the country.\u0026nbsp; Each year some 800 faculty and professionals from around the world receive Fulbright Scholar grants for advanced research and university lecturing.\u0026nbsp; The purpose of the OLF is to allow these scholars to share their specific research interests, speak on the history and culture of their home country, exchange ideas with U.S. students, faculty and community organizations, become better acquainted with U.S. higher education, and create linkages between their home and host institutions and CIES.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnita Singh\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Professor in the Department of English and Co-coordinator of the Centre for Women\u2019s Studies and Development at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Her areas of interest are Gender Studies and Performance Studies. She is published both as a critical and creative writer. She is engaged in a project sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, on \u2018Staging Gender: Performing Women in the \u003Cem\u003ERamlila \u003C\/em\u003Eof Ramnagar\u2019. Her recent book is \u003Cem\u003EGender, Space and Resistance: Women and Theatre in India\u003C\/em\u003E. \u0026nbsp;She has also published interviews with Indian women theater artistes in \u003Cem\u003EAsian Theatre Journal\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe has been a visiting Professor at the Department of English under UGC SAP-III DRS Phase-1 Project at Vidyasagar University (West Bengal).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe has also been the Academic Counselor at Indira Gandhi National Open University. Her Short story \u2018The Wait\u2019 won the \u2018Special Commendation Award\u2019 in \u2018Muse India Fiction Contest\u2019 for the year 2008.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe is presently a Fulbright Nehru Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003EFulbright campus representatives and interested faculty are encouraged to attend.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELecture is Titled: \u201cFeminist Film Theory and Praxis: Reading \u003Cem\u003ERudali\u003C\/em\u003E at the Intersection of Class, Caste and Gender\u201d\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The scholar will lecture on her interests as a scholar, her home country of India, and her Fulbright experience thus far."}],"uid":"27752","created_gmt":"2013-10-28 11:37:26","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:05:26","author":"Maggie Miller","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-11-07T16:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2013-11-07T17:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-11-07T17:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-11-07 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-11-07 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-11-07 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1297","name":"Office of International Education"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"369","name":"Fulbright"},{"id":"2998","name":"India"},{"id":"167860","name":"Spelman College"},{"id":"12874","name":"women\u0027s studies"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1792","name":"Arts and Performance"},{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"},{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETed Cook\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOutreach Lecturing Fund Coordinator, Fulbright Scholar Program\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECouncil for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ecook@iie.org\u0022\u003Eecook@iie.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}