May 12, 2023
Film Screening: Joyland
6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia
The Saxena 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 4, 2023
Tanvi Madan ─ Sino-Indian Relations in the 21st Century
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Please note the event will now begin at 2:30
Register here to attend the webinar.
Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia
China Initiative
Virtual Events
May 4, 2023
May 3, 2023
Ahona Palchoudhuri ─ Classical Everyday: An Anthropology of Music in Rural and Urban West Bengal
2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Leung Conference Room, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
May 2, 2023
Nandita Das — Film Screening of Zwigato
4 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. List 120, List Art Building, 64 College St
Apr 28, 2023
**POSTPONED** Palanivel Thiaga Rajan — The Future of Indian Federalism
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 26, 2023
Ramachandra Guha — Sport and the Nation: Cricket and the Making of Modern India
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 21, 2023
Bhrigupati Singh — Is India going through an Opioid Epidemic? Examining Currents of Life and Death in Contemporary India
2 p.m. – 3 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 20, 2023
Apr 18, 2023
Arvind Subramanian ─ Sino-Indian Relations in the 21st Century
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Leung Conference Room, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street, or watch live on Watson's YouTube channel.
Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia
China Initiative
Senior Fellows
Apr 14, 2023
Apr 7, 2023
Parismita Singh ─ Crisis Comics: Drawing and Writing Non-Fiction in South Asia
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 20, 2023
Resuf Ahmed — Does Political Quota lead to Development? Evidence from India
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 17, 2023
Aasim Khan and Zehra Hashmi — Prehistories of the Information Age and Politics in South Asia
2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 16, 2023
Nida Kirmani— Documentary Screening of Shadowlands and Discussion
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 2, 2023
Dipti Khera — Monsoon Downpours: From Monumental Moods to Micro Histories, c. 1700-1900
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 24, 2023
Faiza Moatsim - Planning Bureaucracy and its Encroachments: The Making of Islamabad as a Master-planned City
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 22, 2023
Ieva Zumbyte ─ Adapted Delivery: How Childcare Workers and Parents Produce Care in the Neighborhoods of Chennai
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Leung Conference Room, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Feb 11, 2023
Research in Nepal: Opportunities and Barriers
4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. India Restaurant, 1060 Hope St, Providence, RI
Dec 9, 2022
“More of us might be killed—but we will win": Hazara Persecution and Resistance in Afghanistan
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies
Dec 9, 2022
Christopher Clary Book Adda — The Difficult Politics of Peace
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowksy Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Dec 2, 2022
Dec 1, 2022
Jocelyn Bell — Reimagining within-movement conflict: Ideology and the anti-sex trafficking movement
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Leung Conference Room, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Nov 18, 2022
Nov 11, 2022