May 21, 2021
Diane Coffey — The Consequences of Caste and Untouchability for Health and Human Capital
12 p.m. – 1:30 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.
May 14, 2021
POSTPONED TBD — Kalaiyarasan A. — Caste and Racial Inequality: Competing Narratives
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Apr 30, 2021
Gayatri Gopinath — Unruly Visions: Queer Archives, Affective Histories
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Apr 26, 2021
The COVID-19 Crisis in India: A Time to Act
11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Watch on Watson's YouTube channel.
Apr 16, 2021
Uday Mehta — Gandhi’s Critique of Political Rationality
12 p.m. – 2 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Apr 14, 2021
Apr 9, 2021
Representation from Below: How Women Mobilize Inside Parties
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
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
Mar 30, 2021
Gayatri Gopinath — Unruly Visions: Queer Archives, Affective Histories
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Mar 26, 2021
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 16, 2021
A Conversation with Rahul Gandhi
10 a.m. – 11 a.m. Brown email required to register for webinar, or watch the livestream (registration not required).
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