May 3, 2019
*Postponed* Namita Dharia — Unruly Urbanism: gods and real estate at the edge of India's National Capital
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
Llerena Searle — Power to the karigar? Craft in elite Indian home decor
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Apr 12, 2019
Tariq Omar Ali — A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Rm, Watson Institute
Apr 5, 2019
Ankhi Mukherjee — Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, a Practice of Freedom: Free Clinics in Urban India
2pm – 4pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Mar 19, 2019
Poulomi Saha — An Empire of Touch: Feminine Political Labor & The Fabrication of East Bengal
4pm – 6pm Room 110, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Mar 15, 2019
Jason Cons — Dakat Climates: Climate Change, Piracy, and the Politics of Capture in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans
2pm – 4pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Mar 8, 2019
Finn Moore-Gerety — Between Sound and Silence in Early Yoga: Meditation on the Sacred Syllable ‘OM’ at the Moment of Death
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Mar 7, 2019
Film Screening: Manto with Director Nandita Das
5:30pm – 8:30pm List Art Building, Room 120
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Feb 22, 2019
Sarah Khan — Personal is Political: Gendered Preference Expression in Pakistan
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Rm, 111 Thayer St
Feb 15, 2019
Smitha Radhakrishnan — Making Financial Citizens? Gendered Livelihoods and Commercial Microfinance in Urban India
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Insitute
Feb 8, 2019
Srinivas Reddy — Poems of Empire: The Remarkable Reign of Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara (1509-1529)
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer St
Feb 1, 2019
Roluahpuia — The nation and its no(n)-violent history: Violence and counter-insurgency in Mizoram, Northeast India
2pm – 4pm Birkelund Board Room, 111 Thayer St
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