TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 / 6:30 PM
UCHI 4th Floor, Homer Babbidge Library
"India Nationalism and Global Fascism Legacies of Solidarity from the 1930s (Spain, Ethiopia, and China)"
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Sponsored by Asian and Asian American Studies Institute
Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College. He is the author of over twenty books and the editor of twenty more books. This year he released Red October: The Russian Revolution and the Communist Horizon, edited for LeftWord Books, and late last year he published The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution for University of California Press. He is a journalist for The Hindu, Frontline, BirGün and Alternet as well as Chief Editor of LeftWord Books.
Indian nationalism – born in the struggle against British colonialism – was nonetheless capacious in its internationalism. In the crucible of anti-fascism campaigns of the 1930s, the Indian nationalist movement looks from Spain to Ethiopia to China to develop its understanding of world relations and of solidarity-diplomacy. This talk will provide an overview of the antifascist roots of Indian foreign policy in the 1930s.
This lecture occurs under the auspices of the Institute’s annual Ahimsa Nonviolence Seminar, which, since 2001, has aspired to connect the principle of nonviolence with its practice to address contemporary concerns. The Ahimsa initiative holds as an ideal Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy of social activism to achieve beneficial change in the world. This lecture will be preceded by a reception.
For more information, contact: Cathy J. Schlund-Vials at cathy.schlund-vials@uconn.edu