Nov 9, 2018
Tapati Guha Thakurta — A Goddess, a Chief Minister and a City: Reflections on a Festival-Mode of Populist Politics in Contemporary India
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
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.
Nov 8, 2018
Nov 2, 2018
Vijayendra Rao — Deliberative inequality: a text-as-data study of Tamil Nadu's village assemblies
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Harvard University
Nov 2, 2018
Elora Shehabuddin — Women's Activism in Cold War East Pakistan: A Transnational History
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 30, 2018
Natasha Eaton – Decolonial Mimesis in South Asia
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 26–27, 2018
Oct 19, 2018
Sonalde Desai – Does Rising Education Lead Changing Gender Norms in India?
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 12, 2018
Ayesha Jalal – Can Muslims be Liberal? Insights from Colonial India
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 11, 2018
Oct 3, 2018
Queer Shorts and Conversations: Indian Supreme Court Decriminalizes Homosexuality
5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Birkelund Board Room
Sep 28, 2018
Radhika Govindrajan – Animal Intimacies a Book Adda
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Sep 27, 2018
CCSA's Undergraduate Returning Fellow Presentations
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Sep 25, 2018
Naila Mahmood – Inner City Kitchens in Karachi: A Microcosm of the Crowded City
6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Old RISD Library, College Building 521, 236 Benefit Street, Providence, RI
Sep 21, 2018
Srimati Basu – Looking through Marriage: Men's Rights Activists, Feminism and Vulnerability
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Sep 14, 2018
Returning Graduate Fellow Presentations
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Sep 7, 2018
May 11, 2018
Hafsa Kanjwal and Mohamad Junaid – State and Political Subjectivity in Kashmir
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
May 4, 2018
Farina Mir – Genres of Muslim Modernity: Urdu Ethics literature and the Diversity of Muslim Thought in Colonial India
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Birkelund Board Room
Apr 27, 2018
Alison Post ─ Infrastructure Networks and Urban Inequality: The Political Geography of Water Flows in Bangalore
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Harvard University, CGIS S354, Cambridge, MA 02138
Apr 25, 2018
Abhilash Medhi ─ Sovereignty and space along infrastructure frontiers: Notes from the Indo-Afghan borderlands and northeast India
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Birkelund Board Room
Apr 20, 2018
Ornit Shani – How India Became Democratic
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 20, 2018
Anthropology & PSTC Present: Michele Friedner – Love and Disability Otherworlds in Urban India
12 p.m. – 2 p.m. Giddings House 212, Department of Anthropology, 128 Hope Street, Providence, RI
Apr 19, 2018
Performance & Presentation: Tishani Doshi & Vivek Narayanan
12 p.m. – 2 p.m. Peterruti Lounge, Stephen Robert Campus Center
Apr 18, 2018
Poetry Reading by Tishani Doshi and Vivek Narayanan
6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 13, 2018
Amitav Ghosh ─ In Conversation with Leela Gandhi
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Pembroke Hall, Room 305