Friday, May 1, 2009.
5:00 pm Keynote address
Swati Chattopadhyay
Associate Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture
University of California Santa Barbara
Saturday, May 2, 2009
9:00 am Introduction
Michael Fisher
Robert S. Danforth Professor of History, Oberlin College.
9:30 am: Pedestrian Problems in early Twentieth Century Bombay
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria, Assistant Professor, Department of
Anthropology, Smith College.
10:15 am: Water and Waste as Shahjahanabad Becomes Old Delhi
Michael Fisher, Robert S. Danforth Professor of History, Oberlin College.
11:00 am to 11:30 am: Discussion led by Vandana Baweja, OKUM Postdoctoral
Fellow, Department of Art, Oberlin College.
1:00: Architectural History in South Asia: Critical Perspectives and Prospects
Madhuri Desai, Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian Studies,
Department of Art History, Penn State University.
1:45: Stones, Stories and Science: Archaeology and the Invention of the
“National” Monument in Colonial India
Mrinalini Rajagopalan
Assistant Professor/ Faculty Fellow of ‘The City’ , John W. Draper
Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Humanities and Social Thought,
New York University
2:30 Discussion and closing remarks led by Paula Richman
Danforth Professor of Religion, Oberlin College
The Astronomy club and Physics department are looking for student artists who would like to help build a scale model of the Solar system. These to-scale models will be set up on Tappan Square during Commencement Week. If you’re interested in helping build representations of the planets, Sun, and moon (no word yet on Pluto), contact 
