Conversation on Courage Dinner Series, with Sanjib Baruah
Hosted by: The Hannah Arendt Center
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Arendt Center
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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Acts of Courage as Acts of Citizenship
“The history of the world can be best observed from the frontier.” Following this insight from Pierre Vilar --a historian of Modern Catalonia and Spain – I have been working for the past few years on the Indo-Burmese borderland region. I will talk of a few stories of political courage from this region. I think of them as acts of citizenship. Unlike ordinary practices of citizenship such as voting or paying taxes, they expand the horizons of citizenship over time.
BIO: Sanjib Baruah
B.A., Cotton College, Gauhati, India; M.A., University of Delhi, India; Ph.D., University of Chicago. Concurrent appointment: Honorary Professor, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi, India. At Bard since 1983.
“The history of the world can be best observed from the frontier.” Following this insight from Pierre Vilar --a historian of Modern Catalonia and Spain – I have been working for the past few years on the Indo-Burmese borderland region. I will talk of a few stories of political courage from this region. I think of them as acts of citizenship. Unlike ordinary practices of citizenship such as voting or paying taxes, they expand the horizons of citizenship over time.
BIO: Sanjib Baruah
B.A., Cotton College, Gauhati, India; M.A., University of Delhi, India; Ph.D., University of Chicago. Concurrent appointment: Honorary Professor, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi, India. At Bard since 1983.