{"id":9846,"date":"2023-09-05T11:42:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T18:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=9846"},"modified":"2023-09-05T11:42:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T18:42:40","slug":"event-info-invitation-to-a-talk-by-dr-faisal-devji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-9846","title":{"rendered":"Event Info | Invitation to a talk by Dr. Faisal Devji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>We hope you are doing well and wish you a wonderful start to the Winter semester.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To start the term off, we invite you to join to\u00a0a talk by <strong>Dr.\u00a0Faisal Devji <\/strong>from Oxford on<strong>\u00a0&#8220;Gandhi&#8217;s Silence&#8221; <\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>September 8th, 2023,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>2:00-4:00 PM<\/strong> at\u00a0<strong>Asian Centre Auditorium.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RSVP Here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/phb3AQ9YJMg273Ee6\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/phb3AQ9YJMg273Ee6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Devji is\u00a0interested in the intellectual history and political thought of modern South Asia as well as in the emergence of Islam as a global category. He focuses on\u00a0the cultural and philosophical meanings of violence and the emergence of non-violence as a political project.<\/p>\n<p>The talk is\u00a0part of the\u00a0UBC\u00a0South Asia Colloquium 2023-2024, sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We hope to see you there!<\/p>\n<p>Best Regards,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Malavika Kannan <\/strong>(She\/Her\/Hers)<\/p>\n<p>Program Assistant<\/p>\n<p>UBC Centre for India and South Asia Research (CISAR)<\/p>\n<p>Institute of Asian Research | C.K. Choi Building, Room 251<\/p>\n<p>1855 West Mall | Vancouver BC\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z2 Canada<\/p>\n<p>Tel 604 822 4688 | Fax 604 822 5207<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:cisar.iar@ubc.ca\">cisar.iar@ubc.ca<\/a> | <a href=\"cisar.iar.ubc.ca\">cisar.iar.ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CISARatUBC\/\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ubcCISAR\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ubccisar\/?hl=en\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCugM7Ko6vyBcfh-ejPjRZ5g\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, We hope you are doing well and wish you a wonderful start to the Winter semester. &nbsp; To start the term off, we invite you to join to\u00a0a talk by Dr.\u00a0Faisal Devji from Oxford on\u00a0&#8220;Gandhi&#8217;s Silence&#8221; on\u00a0September 8th, 2023,\u00a02:00-4:00 PM at\u00a0Asian Centre Auditorium.\u00a0 &nbsp; RSVP Here:\u00a0https:\/\/forms.gle\/phb3AQ9YJMg273Ee6 &nbsp; Dr. Devji is\u00a0interested in the intellectual history&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9847,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846\/revisions\/9847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}