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Nov. 1 Symposium to Examine Cultural
Representations of Asian Families

 GREENSBORO — An academic symposium entitled “Real and Imagined Families: Cultural Representation in South Asian /American Contexts” is scheduled for 1 – 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, in the Faculty Center of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. It is free and open to the public. Information and programs are available by calling (336) 334-5673, or on the Web at http://www.uncg.edu/wms.

Cosponsored by the Women’s Studies Program, the symposium draws together an international panel of authors, scholars and experts in Asian families from UNCG and other universities. Through  slide lectures, two panel discussions and a fiction reading, presenters will examine cultural narratives of family as depicted in photography, demography, fiction, memoir and feminist and gender theory.

Presenters include: Geraldine Forbes, author of “Women in Modern India: New Cambridge History of India,” and distinguished teaching professor and chair of the department of history at the State University of New York at Oswego; Sanjukta Dasgupta, visiting Fulbright Lecturer and professor of English and Women’s Studies Research Center at the University of Calcutta; Shamita Das Dasgupta, cofounder of MANAVI, an organization which addresses violence against South Asian women in the U.S.; Sudha Shreeniwas, assistant professor of Human Development and Family Studies at UNCG, and Janet Peery, author of “The River Beyond the World,” and “Alligator Dance,” and associate professor of English at Old Dominion University.

Other sponsors are the North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies, the Fulbright Commission and the College of Arts and Sciences at UNCG.

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