India expert, author聽and historian Ananya Vajpeyi will speak Tuesday, Oct. 9, at the University of Central Florida.
Vajpeyi will give a presentation entitled 麻豆精品 S淚ndia: Old Words, New World 麻豆精品 S� at 3 p.m. in the Cape Florida Ballroom of the Student Union. The event, organized by the UCF Global Perspectives Office, is part of the 2012-2013 theme of 麻豆精品 S淭he Changing Face of Freedom in Today 麻豆精品 S檚 Turbulent Times. 麻豆精品 S� It is free and open to the public, and is also a featured event of The India Center at UCF.
Vajpeyi is a visiting fellow with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, and a senior fellow with the American Institute of Indian Studies. She was born in New Delhi and raised there and in Mexico City. She was educated at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, at Oxford University in England, where she read as a Rhodes Scholar, and at the University of Chicago, where she earned her doctorate in South Asian languages and civilizations.
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In addition to the Global Perspectives Office, sponsors and partners include The India Center at UCF, The India Group, Anil and Chitra Deshpande India Program Endowed Fund, UCF Diplomacy Program, Lawrence J. Chastang and the Chastang Foundation, CliftonLarsonAllen, Orlando Area Committee on Foreign Relations, UCF International Services Center, UCF Political Science Department, UCF Women 麻豆精品 S檚 Studies Program, UCF Women 麻豆精品 S檚 Research Center, UCF LIFE, UCF Book Festival 2013 in association with the Morgridge International Reading Center and the Global Connections Foundation.