May 3, 2019
Llerena Searle — TBD
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
South Asia Seminar
The South Asia Seminar series is a central interdisciplinary offering of the Center. This series of public lecutres facilitaties a convergence of figures from accross the lines of academia, civil society, literature, public policy, and journalism to contribute to the discourse on contemporary issues in the region.
Apr 19, 2019
Apr 12, 2019
Apr 5, 2019
Mar 15, 2019
Mar 8, 2019
Finn Moore Gerety — TBD
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Mar 7, 2019
Film Screening: Manto with Director Nandita Das
5:30pm – 8:30pm List Arts Center, Room 120
Feb 22, 2019
Feb 1, 2019
Nov 30, 2018
Pakistan Elections Across Disciplines: A Teach-In and Discussion Forum
2pm – 4pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St
Nov 9, 2018
Nov 8, 2018
Tapati Guha Thakurta — A Goddess, a Chief Minister and a City: Reflections on a Festival-Mode of Populist Politics in Contemporary India
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Nov 2, 2018
Elora Shehabuddin — Gender and Modernization in Cold War Pakistan: A Transnational History
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room
Oct 12, 2018
Ayesha Jalal — Can Muslims be Liberal? Insights from Colonial India
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room
Oct 11, 2018
Sep 21, 2018
Srimati Basu — Looking through Marriage: Men's Rights Activists, Feminism and Vulnerability
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room
May 4, 2018
Apr 20, 2018
Ornit Shani ─ How India Became Democratic
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Apr 12, 2018
Tariq Modood — Ethno-Religious Equality, Islamophobia, Multicultural Equality and Moderate Secularism: Do these concepts have application in South Asia?
12pm – 2pm Birkelund Board Room, Watson Institute
Apr 9, 2018
Film Screening: An Insignificant Man
6pm – 8pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Mar 9, 2018
Vivek Dehejia — From the 'Idea of India' to the 'New Idea of India': The Political Economy of Federalism in India
2pm – 4pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Mar 2, 2018
Raile Rocky Ziipao ─ Roads, Region Formation, and the Question of Tribes in North East India
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Feb 16, 2018
Vivian Choi — Enduring Disasters: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Feb 9, 2018
Shahzad Bashir ─ India as a Sufi Timespace in the work of Jamali of Delhi
2pm – 4pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Feb 2, 2018
Husain Haqqani ─ Reimagining Pakistan
2pm – 4pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute