The Department of Anthropology will host a talk by Ishani Dasgupta, the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities in Leadership Learning Series (HILLS) at Case Western Reserve University. Dasgupta will present “To Starve, to Strike, To Mobilize: Hunger Strikes and National Mobilization Amongst Tibetans in Exile” Thursday, April 11, at 4 p.m. in Mather Memorial Building, Room 201.
Dasgupta will discuss how Tibetan hunger strikes symbolize a wide range of political actions that mobilized the Tibet political body dispersed across distinct communities.