Apr 11, 2025TM Krishna — Gender and Caste in Music: Tradition, Social Identities, Representation & Aesthetics
Apr 02, 2025TM Krishna — Lecture-demonstration: Understanding a Musical Form: An Exploration of Carnatic Music
Mar 07, 2025Tanushree Goyal — Representation from Below: The Grassroots Origins of Women’s Political Power
Feb 28, 2025Smitha Radhakrishnan — Hidden Precarities: Indebtedness, Caste, and Breadwinning in Urban Uttarakhand, India
Feb 07, 2025Pradeep Chhibber — Shallow Democracy: Political Parties and the Crisis of Representation in India
Nov 01, 2024Sidra Kamran — The In-Between Workers: Femininity and Class Flux in Pakistan’s Service Economy
Oct 25, 2024Sumitra Badrinathan — Countering Misinformation Early: A Media Literacy Intervention for School Children in India
Apr 26, 2024OP Jindal Distinguished Lecture with Atul Kohli — Modi in Power: More Continuity than Meets the Eye
Apr 25, 2024OP Jindal Distinguished Lecture with Atul Kohli — Modi’s March to Power: How Congress Paved the Way
Mar 22, 2024Rajmohan Gandhi — Resisting Supremacy: The Dogged and Unfinished Life of Rev. James M. Lawson
Mar 15, 2024SherAli Tareen Book Adda — Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire
Mar 08, 2024Arvind Subramanian, Devesh Kapur — One-Sixth of Humanity: The Development Odyssey of India’s Precocious Democracy
Feb 23, 2024Soledad Artiz Prillaman — The Patriarchal Political Order - The Making and Unraveling of the Gendered Participation Gap in India
Feb 09, 2024Shikhar Singh — In-group Anger or Out-group Ambivalence: Voters and Cross-ethnic Distribution
Dec 08, 2023Siddhartha Deb — A New Kind of Indian Novel: A Discussion on the Light at the End of the World
Dec 01, 2023Melani Cammett and Poulomi Dar Chakrabarti — Defensive Cooperation: Understanding Pro-Social Attitudes in Indian Muslims
Dec 01, 2023Crafting Cuisine: A Celebration of Food and Art in South Asia with Andrea Gutierrez, Sarah Khan, Sylvia Houghteling and Yael Rice
Nov 08, 2023Yamini Aiyer — Citizen vs Labharthi (beneficiary): Interrogating India’s Emerging Welfare State
Sep 22, 2023Gemma Dipoppa & Saad Gulzar — Fires: The Political Economy and Health Impacts of Crop Burning in South Asia
Sep 15, 2023Anirvan Chowdhury — Religiously Conservative Parties and Women’s Political Mobilization: Gender Norms, Party Activism, and Democratization in India
May 04, 2023Panel Discussion — Architectures of Devotion: The Secular In Contestation Webinar | May 4th 2023
May 03, 2023Ahona Palchoudhuri ─ Classical Everyday: An Anthropology of Music in Rural and Urban West Bengal
Feb 17, 2023Aasim Khan and Zehra Hashmi — Prehistories of the Information Age and the Politics in South Asia
Dec 09, 2022“More of us might be killed—but we will win”: Hazara Persecution and Resistance in Afghanistan
Dec 01, 2022Jocelyn Bell — Reimagining within-movement conflict: Ideology and the anti-sex trafficking movement
Nov 11, 2022Projit Mukharji — Brown Skins, White Coats: Genes, Castes and Medical Risk in Twentieth-century India
Nov 04, 2022Vineeta Yadav — How Elite Risk Preferences Shape Democracy: Evidence from India and Pakistan
Oct 28, 2022Tanu Kumar — Housing as welfare: How subsidized homeownership generates social mobility through wealth, voice, and dignity in India
Oct 24, 2022Rukmini S. — Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India
Oct 21, 2022Kamila Shamsie — From Greeks to Indo-Greeks to Greco-Britains’: 2,000 years of Hellenic culture in South Asia
Sep 09, 2022 until Sep 10, 2022 Saxena Center Inauguration | Marginalization & Inclusion in South Asia: Economics, Politics and Culture
May 06, 2022Nikhar Gaikwad — Bridging the Gulf: Experimental Evidence on Migration’s Impact on Tolerance and Internationalism
May 02, 2022Rajesh Veeraraghavan Book Adda — Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India
Apr 29, 2022Shrayana Bhattacharya — Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India’s Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
Apr 15, 2022Siddharth Varadarajan — The Media and India’s Democracy Today an OP Jindal Distinguished Lecture
Apr 06, 2022William Lodge — Intersectionality, Multilevel Syndemics, and HIV Medication Adherence Amongst Transwomen in India
Mar 15, 2022Jinah Kim (Harvard University): “Color Coding Knowledge: Five Colors of Indian Esoteric Buddhism”
Mar 14, 2022Pallavi Raghavan — Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-52
Mar 11, 2022Paul Staniland Book Adda — Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation
Feb 25, 2022Karen Coelho — Remaking the Urban in the Margins: Resettlement Colonies and Differential Inclusion in India
Feb 24, 2022 until Feb 25, 2022 Modern Languages Conference 2022 Cross-Talk: Conversations on Race and Language
Feb 18, 2022Sangeeta Banerji — Fixing Mumbai: Broker-life, Expertise, and Technology in the Urban Bureaucracy