May 3, 2019
POSTPONED – Namita Dharia — Unruly Urbanism: gods and real estate at the edge of India's National Capital
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
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.
May 3, 2019
Ahsan Butt – Secession and Security in South Asia
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. MIT, Cambridge, MA
Apr 26, 2019
Sanjay Subrahmanyam — The Long Roots of Indian Capitalism: Portfolio Capitalism and Political Capitalism
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 23, 2019
Sanjay Subrahmanyam — The Long Roots of Indian Capitalism: The Indian Ocean as a Framework
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Stephen Robert '62 Hall, Room 101, 280 Brook Street
Apr 19, 2019
Llerena Searle — Power to the karigar? Craft in elite Indian home decor
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 18, 2019
CCSA Undergraduate Paper Prize Presentations
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 12, 2019
Tariq Omar Ali — A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 12, 2019
Sarah Khan — De Facto Suffrage: A Field Experiment to Improve Women's Turnout in Pakistan's General Elections
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Room S153, CGIS South, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Apr 5, 2019
Ankhi Mukherjee — Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, a Practice of Freedom: Free Clinics in Urban India
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 2, 2019
Worlding the World of Art: A Conversation between Latin America and Asia with Florencia Malbran and Natasha Ginwala
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 19, 2019
Poulomi Saha — An Empire of Touch: Feminine Political Labor & The Fabrication of East Bengal
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Room 110, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Mar 15, 2019
Jason Cons — Dakat Climates: Climate Change, Piracy, and the Politics of Capture in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 14, 2019
Aarti Sethi — Mahadev's Gift: Men, Bullocks and the Community of Cultivation in Central India
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Room 110, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Mar 8, 2019
Finn Moore-Gerety — Between Sound and Silence in Early Yoga: Meditation on the Sacred Syllable ‘OM’ at the Moment of Death
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 7, 2019
Film Screening of Manto with Director Nandita Das
5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. List Art Building, Room 120
Mar 6, 2019
Decolonizing the Museum: A Teach-in
4:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 1, 2019
Gowri Vijayakumar — The Mobilizing State: HIV/AIDS and Sexual Identity in India
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 28, 2019
Aruna Roy – Indian Democracy: The Role of Civil Society and Social Movements in Strengthening Democracy
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 26, 2019
Nasifa Nur — Analysis of Diphtheria Outbreak in Displaced Rohingya from Myanmar in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 22, 2019
Sarah Khan — Personal is Political: Gendered Preference Expression in Pakistan
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 20, 2019
Hammad Nasar — Art and Migration: Curating Entangled Histories and Q&A with Barrymore Bogues & Leela Gandhi
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 15, 2019
Smitha Radhakrishnan — Making Financial Citizens? Gendered Livelihoods and Commercial Microfinance in Urban India
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 8, 2019
Bilal Baloch — Crisis and Credibility: The Politics of Ideas in India and Developing Democracies
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Room S450, CGIS South, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Feb 8, 2019
Srinivas Reddy — Poems of Empire: The Remarkable Reign of Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara (1509-1529)
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 8, 2019
South Asian Studies Concentration & CCSA Fellowship Info Session
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Room 220, Stephe Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street