Apr 2, 2021
Priyamvada Gopal Book Adda — Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar
Center for Contemporary South Asia
The Center for Contemporary South Asia promotes research, teaching and public engagement on key issues of modern South Asia in an interdisciplinary framework and in a historically and culturally grounded manner.
Mar 26, 2021
Susan Ostermann — Capacity Beyond Coercion: Regulatory Pragmatism and Compliance Along the India-Nepal Border
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar
Mar 19, 2021
Ghulam Hussain — Anthropology of Activism: Engaging with the Narrative of Forced Conversion in Pakistan
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar
Mar 12, 2021
Junaid Kamal Ahmad — Indian Federalism and Service Delivery: Navigating the Challenge of Covid 19
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Mar 5, 2021
Audrey Truschke — Hindutva History and Other Modern Problems with the Indian Past
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Feb 26, 2021
Nirvikar Jassal — Policing and Gendered Cases in India
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Feb 19, 2021
Film Screening of Baato & discussion with Directors Lucas Millard and Kate Stryker
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Film will be available for viewing from
4PM EST 2/16 - 11:50PM EST 2/19
Feb 12, 2021
Aditi Priya & Vineeta — The Pedagogy of Economics and Caste in India
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Feb 11, 2021
Declan Walsh Book Adda — The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Feb 9, 2021
Tanushree Goyal — Gender Quotas and Political Inclusion in India's Weakly Institutionalized Party System
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar
Feb 5, 2021
Aditya Dasgupta — Weapons of the Weak: The Violent Consequences of Biased Technological Change
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Feb 3, 2021
Ijlal Naqvi — Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to attend the webinar.
Center for Contemporary South Asia
Development and Governance Seminar
Jan 29, 2021
Ashish Jha — COVID-19 in South Asia
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Jan 22, 2021
Irfan Nooruddin — Evolving news media landscapes in India and Pakistan: Implications for regional peace and stability
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Dec 4, 2020
Gautam Nair — Business, Voters, and Distributive Politics in Developing Democracies
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Dec 3, 2020
Nov 20, 2020
Rikhil Bhavnani — Gandhi's Gift: Successful Mass Nonviolence and India's Decolonization
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Nov 13, 2020
Naeem Mohaiemen & Eszter Szakács — Solidarity Must Be Defended
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Nov 12–13, 2020
Nov 6, 2020
Sameer Lalwani — Second Coming? Testing the Nuclear Revolution in Pakistan’s Strategic Debates
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Watch the event on YouTube.
Oct 30, 2020
Feroz Khan — Regional Security and Strategic Stability in Southern Asia
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Oct 27, 2020
Mohamad Junaid & Samreen Mushtaq — Kashmir In the Time of COVID-19
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Oct 23, 2020
Mashail Malik — Discrimination and Defiant Pride: How the Demand for Dignity Creates Slack for Poor Governance
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Oct 16, 2020
Madhav Khosla Book Adda — India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Watch the event on YouTube.
Oct 9, 2020
Sharmin Hossain — Caste in Bangladesh and Bangladeshi Diaspora
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.