South Asian Religions Distinguished Lectureship

The Faculty of Religious Studies is please to host Prof. Sumathi Ramaswamy as this year's featured speaker for the South Asian Religions Distinguished Lectureship, and who will offer a presentation titled "An Historian among the Goddesses of Modern India." The event is open to all.

Sumathi Ramaswamy is Professor of History at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and Executive Director of the North Carolina Center for South Asian Studies. She is is the author of The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India (Duke University Press, 2010), The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories (University of California Press, 2004), and Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 (University of California Press, 1997), and is also co-founder of a trans-national digital network for popular South Asian visual culture called Tasveer Ghar (House of Pictures) (www.tasveerghar.net)

The South Asian Religions Distinguished Lectureship in the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, was established to complement the Faculty's strong undergraduate and graduate programs on South Asia, and to encourage public understanding of South Asian religions. It has been made possible by the generosity of Professor Robert Stevenson, Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill from 1966 to 1991.