The third part of the six-part series entitled “Languages and Literature of India” is scheduled to commence in November, 2007, and run through February, 2008.  The lectures will be held on the second Saturdays of the month at 3:00 PM in Hall A of the Harvard University Science Center. The Science Center is located at 1 Oxford Street in Cambridge and is easily accessible by the MBTA Red Line.  On-street parking may be available within a short walk from the location.

The series celebrates the living and style in different regions of India as expressed in the language and the literature.  The 2006-2007 lectures included Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati and Nepali languages.   The 2007-2008 series will include lectures on Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Sindhi and Konkani languages and their literature.  Scholars from the local area will be invited to lead the lectures followed by discussion and Question and Answer.  Each lecture is supplemented by recitation of sample literature in the language and conversation skits depicting the use and tone of the language.

The lecture on Marathi will be offered by Ms. Anupama Tipnis on Saturday, November 10. The Bengali lecture will be offered by Ms. Maya De and is scheduled on December 8. Mr. Jaspal Singh will offer the lecture on Punjabi on January 12 and Mr. Lalit Koul will offer the lecture on Kashmiri on February 9.  The fourth part of the series will commence in March with the lecture on Sindhi followed a lecture in Konkani in April.  The Annual India Poetry Reading at Harvard will be hosted in May with the topic “My Language”, where poems composed by the participants or from the literature can be presented.

The Outreach Committee at the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies invites everyone to participate in the lectures and contribute to the literary discussion.  The lectures are free and are sixty minutes in duration.  With the recitation, skit and Question and Answer, each lecture event is likely to end around 5 PM.  The hall is handicapped accessible.   The directions to the hall can be obtained from the Harvard University website http://www.harvard.edu.  The lecture listings and the archives are available at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~sanskrit/outreach.html.  You may contact Dr. Bijoy Misra at bmisra@fas.harvard.edu with any questions or any further information.  

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