Architecture and Amnesia in Indian Modernity

Arjun Appadurai, Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University, will give the Keynote Address for the conference, Emerging Exchanges: New Architectures of India.

The preeminent social-cultural anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, whose work focuses on modernity and globalization, has held professorial chairs at the New School, Yale University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Pennsylvania. Appadurai is the founder and now the President of PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research), a non-profit organization based in and oriented to the city of Mumbai. His books include Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule (1981), Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (2006), and Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996). Appadurai earned his B.A. from Brandeis University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

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Sponsored by the Architectural League of New York, the India China Institute of The New School, and Parsons The New School for Design. The sponsors thank The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Mark Fletcher, and AD magazine for their support of the conference. The Great Hall of The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street