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Higher Education in the Crosshairs

Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice

September 12, 2005, 4:15 pm • Founders Room, McConnell Center

Keynote Speaker

Akhil Gupta , Anthropology and Humanities Center Fell0w, Stanford University
“The Inscribed State: Literacy and Inequality in a Postcolonial Society”

Dealing with questions of literacy and social justice in the context of rural India, Professor Gupta examines how low literacy rates, education qualifications, and the ability to write function as tools of oppression wielded by bureaucrats.

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E-mail: Interdisciplinarity@pitzer.edu

 

 
 
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