Monday, February 5, 2001
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By Lloyd Winstead
winstead@uga.edu

The 2001 Center for Humanities and Arts international symposium will focus on “Globalization and Change in South Asia.”
Scheduled for Feb. 7–9 in Masters Hall of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education, the event will bring together more than 20 artists, scholars and diplomats from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the United States to discuss nationalism in the region, economic priorities, and art and literature in the diaspora.
The opening address will be delivered by Jayantha Dhanapala, undersecretary general of the United Nations, at 8 p.m. on Feb. 7. Murli Manohar Joshi, minister of human resource development and science and technology in India, will speak at 9 a.m. on Feb. 8.
Novelist Bharati Mukherjee will take part in a roundtable discussion on “The South Asian Diaspora in the Arts” with scholars of literary study and the visual arts.
Traditional music will be performed after the evening address on Feb. 7 and at 4 p.m. on Feb. 8. On exhibit will be antique rugs of the region, provided by Premium Rugs of Athens.
The planning committee for this year’s symposium was co-chaired by Gary Bertsch, director of the Center for International Trade and Security, and Betty Jean Craige, director of the Center for Humanities and Arts. Committee members included Carmon Colangelo, art; Seema Gahlaut, Center for International Trade and Security; Andy Kavoori, journalism; Milton Masciadri, music; and Anupam Srivastava, Center for International Trade and Security.
The symposium is free and open to the public.
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