Venue: Theatre D, Old Arts Building
Presenters: Dr Jane Dyson
Inspire 1. To fill someone with the urge or ability to do or feel something, especially to do something creative. 2. To breathe in, inhale (Oxford English Dictionary Online 2015).
India has always had the capacity to inspire people and ideas. This is true of the ‘old India’ of pre-Independence times and the new India that emerged out of partition in 1947, and of which Nehru spoke so eloquently in his famous speech ‘Freedom at Midnight’. More recently, people within and outside the country have identified India as a place where there are inspiring events occurring, in the economic field, socially, politically and culturally.
This series brings together individuals who have had a dramatic effect on the development of modern India in either the economic, political or cultural spheres and in the areas, for example, of business, government, or civil society. The aim of the series is not only to inform audiences about examples of innovative practice but to inspire them.
Dr Jane Dyson is a Lecturer in the School of Geography, University of Melbourne. She has worked for over a decade in the high Himlayas in India examining gender, work, and social transformation from the perspective of social geography, cultural anthropology and development studies.
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https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/6370-inspiring-india
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