South Asian Speaker Series. Featuring David Gilmartin, professor of History, North Carolina State University. The establishment and legal regulation of voting practices provides a critical window for analyzing the distinctive meanings attached to the people’s sovereignty as an operative force in electoral democracies. In India, this is evident in the controversies that have surrounded the use of officially-sanctioned party electoral symbols in election campaigns. Thursday, April 19, 5 p.m., Hellems 199, CU-Boulder.