Global Issues Speaker Series: Dr. Joy Ochs--India's Past and Present

Date: 2/10/2015 TO 2/26/2015
Time: 7:00 PM TO 8:00 PM

Mount Mercy University
1330 Elmhurst Dr NE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402

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Event Description: As a Fellow with the National Endowment for the Humanities (July, 2013), and the Mellon Foundation (June, 2014) Dr. Ochs had a unique opportunity to travel to India and explore the rich history of India’s art, literature, and philosophy. During the two visits, she gained first-hand experience of how those forms of expression inform contemporary Indian literature as it becomes a presence for an international audience. While teaching British literature, Joy Ochs became interested in the stories emerging from the Indian subcontinent during and after the British Raj (1858 – 1947). British writers such as Rudyard Kipling and George Orwell chronicled the Anglo-Indian experience as distinctively non-British. Once the British had left, however, Indian writers adopted the English language to redefine for themselves what it meant to be non-British. In her multi-media presentation, Professor Ochs will share her first-hand experience with India’s rich and colorful culture and its equally colorful rural and urban environments as the country experiences


Directions:
Flaherty Community Room, Basile Hall

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