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International Student & Scholar Services is posting this announcement as a public service. Please contact the Asian American Studies Institute, 860-486-4751, if you have any questions. Thank you. Bob Chudy ********************************************************************************************************************* Monday, April 21, 4:00 pm, Class of 1947 room. Pawan Dhingra, Chair, Sociology Department, Tufts University. Topic related to his book: Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream. His first book on second-generation immigrant communities was the award-winning Managing Multicultural Lives: Asian American Professionals and the Challenge of Multiple Identities . His co-curated exhibition, Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation opened at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History at the end of February. Co-sponsoring with Asian and Asian American Studies Institute and Sociology Department. Thursday, April 24, 4:00 pm, Class of 1947 Room, Library, Visiting Guest Professors, Nandita Gandhi and Nandita Shah, Co-Directors, Akshara Women's Center, Mumbai, India, "The Changing Nature of Activism in the Women's Movement in India." Sponsored by Asia and Asian American Studies Institute, El Instituto: Latin American, Latina/o Studies Institute, Human Rights Institute, India Studies Program, Dept. of Sociology, School of Social Work, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies