Oct 24, 2022
Kamila Shamsie — From Greeks to Indo-Greeks to Greco-Britains’: 2,000 years of Hellenic culture in South Asia
2 p.m. – 4 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.
Oct 21, 2022
Oct 7, 2022
Sanjay Kak — Archives of the Present: Witness in Kashmir and Palestine
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 30, 2022
Nayanika Mathur — Writing the Anthropocene from the Indian Himalaya
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 28, 2022
TM Krishna — Art & Activism - Meaning and Purpose
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 27, 2022
TM Krishna — Music Workshop
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 23, 2022
Gilles Verniers — The Making of UP’s New Politicians: The Elite Roots of Inclusion
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 16, 2022
Film Screening: The Providence Premiere of "A Night of Knowing Nothing"
6 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. True North Classroom, 280 Brook Street
Sep 16, 2022
P. Saravanamuttu — Sri Lanka in Crisis: Democratic Governance Imperiled?
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 9, 2022
Ali Sethi Concert
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Starr Plaza, 111 Thayer Street. In the event of rain: 280 Brook Street
Sep 9–10, 2022
Saxena Center Inauguration | Marginalization & Inclusion in South Asia: Economics, Politics, and Culture
Joukowsy Forum and Starr Plaza, 111 Thayer Street
Aug 22–23, 2022
South Asia Workshop: Indian landscapes circa 1750-1850
McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
May 6, 2022
May 2, 2022
Rajesh Veeraraghavan Book Adda — Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 29, 2022
Apr 22, 2022
Joy Ma & Dilip D' Souza Book Adda — The Deoliwallahs
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St
Apr 15, 2022
OP Jindal Distinguished Lecture with Siddharth Varadarajan
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St
Apr 8, 2022
Ramachandra Guha in Conversation with Leela Gandhi
10:00am - 11:30am EST / 7:30 - 9:00pm IST Register to join the webinar
Mar 25, 2022
Sanjoy Bhattacharya — Smallpox Eradication: A racially inclusive history
12:00pm – 1:30pm EST Register to join the webinar
Mar 18, 2022
Farhana Sultana — Critical Climate Justice
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. EST Register to join the webinar
Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia
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Virtual Events
Mar 14, 2022
Pallavi Raghavan — Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-52
4:00pm - 6:00pm EST McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 11, 2022
Paul Staniland Book Adda — Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St
Mar 4, 2022
Aashish Kumar — Body, Home, World: South Asian American LGBTQ+ Journeys
5:00pm - 7:00pm EST Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 4, 2022
Neelanjan Sircar — Colossus: The Anatomy of Delhi
12:00pm – 1:30pm EST Register to join the webinar
Mar 2, 2022
Anindita Adhikari — Claims, Complaints and Democratization of the Local State in India
12 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Leung Conference Room, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street