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The Los Angeles
Geographical Society would like to invite you and students to our October
lecture on Friday, October 2, 2009. The lecture will start at 8:00 pm in
the Chemistry Building Lecture Hall (Room 3 in the basement) at Los
Angeles City College. The monthly lectures are free and open to the
public. Please visit
www.lageographic.org for detailed information on the lecture room
location and directions.
This month’s lecture promises to be an interesting one on an important
topic. Join us as Dr. Bipasha Baruah presents a lecture entitled “Slumdogs
and Millionaires: Making Sense of Contemporary India”. Dr. Baruah will
describe some of the diverse challenges and opportunities that face the
second most populous country in the world. Dr. Baruah is an Assistant
Professor in the International Studies Program at California State
University, Long Beach (CSULB) and the Interim Director of the Center for
India Studies at CSULB. Dr. Baruah completed a Ph.D. in environmental
studies from York University, Canada, and a post-doctoral fellowship at
the University of Toronto. She is interested in the study of gender and
globalization, grassroots women’s organizations, urban land and housing
rights, urban basic service delivery, and informal sector labor issues in
South Asia. In addition to academic appointments, Dr. Baruah has served as
a consultant to the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and
the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT).
She has worked as a researcher and a development practitioner in India,
Indonesia and the Eastern Caribbean countries of St. Vincent and the
Grenadines, St. Lucia, and St. Kitts and Nevis.
We encourage you to invite your students to attend the lectures, which
feature research, travelogues, and other interesting geography topics from
around the nation and the world. The monthly lectures are free and are
usually held on the first Friday of each month during the academic year at
Los Angeles City College’s Chemistry Lecture Hall. |