Ather Zia is an Assistant Prof in Dept of Anthropology at University of Northern Colorado. In addition to being an anthropologist, Dr. Zia is a renowned Kashmiri journalist, poet, and activist. Dr. Zia has been a journalist with BBC World service. She has also done a brief stint as a civil servant with the Kashmir government which in a lighter vein she refers to as her *pre-pre-preliminary fieldwork*. She is a published author and columnist. Her essays and creative work including fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of magazines. In 2011 she co-founded Critical Kashmir Studies, an interdisciplinary network of scholars working on the Kashmir region. Dr. Zia is also the founder/editor of e-zine based on Kashmir titled Kashmir Lit at www.kashmirlit.org. Follow her latest blog at Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.in/bloggers/ather-zia/
12 - 1:30 PM
Lunch will be provided.
Co-sponsored by RITM.
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