<font face="'PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif'"><div style="text-align: center;">S<span style="font-weight: bold;">PECIAL FREE PUBIC LECTURE</span><br>Presented by <br>The Centre for Peace and Social Justice<br>The School of Arts and Social Sciences<br>Southern Cross University<br style="font-weight: bold;"><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gandhi's West: the West's Gandhi: The Limits of Intercultural Dialogue</span><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Vinay Lal</span><br></div><br>'The
‘citizen of the world’... takes the entire world as the canvas of his
or her action. This is how we are to understand [Gandhi's] implicit
injunction to ‘think locally, act globally’.' - Vinay Lal<br><br><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Byron Bay Community and Cultural Centre<br><br>Wednesday 8th December 2010<br><br>6.45pm to 8.00pm<br><br>Chair: Cr. Jan Barham, Mayor<br></div><br><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br>Vinay
Lal is Professor of History at Delhi University and also at the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He grew up in Delhi,
Tokyo, Jakarta, and Washington, D.C., and earned his B.A. and M.A.,
both in 1982, from the Humanities Center at The Johns Hopkins
University. He then studied cinema in Australia and India on a Thomas
J. Watson Fellowship before commencing his graduate studies at the
University of Chicago, where he was awarded a Ph.D. with Distinction
from the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations in
1992. <br><br>His views on American foreign policy and the
totalitarianism of American democracy have earned him a place in David
Horowitz’s book on the 101 ‘most dangerous’ professors in America today
alongside Noam Chomsky. He blogs at www.vinaylal.wordpress.com and
maintains an academic yet popular website on all aspects of Indian
civilization called MANAS at www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia. His
numerous books published by Cambridge University Press and others
include <span style="font-style: italic;">Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy</span> (London: Pluto Press, 2002; new updated edition, Sage Publishers, 2005).<br><br>This
public lecture is part of the Cultural Studies Association of
Australasia's Annual conference, this year being hosted by The School
of Arts and Social Sciences and Centre for Peace and Social Justice, Southern Cross University at
the Byron Bay Community and Cultural Centre, from 7-9 December. <br><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Visit the Website: http://www.scu.edu.au/research/cpsj/asa/index.html</span><br><br><br></font><br><br><br><br>