Feb 3, 2023
POSTPONED: Gemma Dipoppa and Saad Gulzar — Fires: The Political Economy and Health Impacts of Crop Burning in South Asia
This event has been postponed. New date TBA.
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
South Asia Seminar
The South Asia Seminar series is a central interdisciplinary offering of the Saxena 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.
Dec 9, 2022
“More of us might be killed—but we will win": Hazara Persecution and Resistance in Afghanistan
4:00pm - 5:30pm EST McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer St
Dec 2, 2022
POSTPONED - Akhil Gupta — Changing Relations Between the State and Rural India
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST Postponed.
Nov 11, 2022
Projit Mukharji — Brown Skins, White Coats: Genes, Castes and Medical Risk in Twentieth-century India
10:00am - 11:30am EST / 8:30 - 10:00pm IST Register to attend the webinar
Nov 7, 2022
Oct 24, 2022
Rukmini S. — Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India
12:00pm – 1:30pm EST McKinney Conference Rm, 111 Thayer St
Oct 7, 2022
Sanjay Kak — Archives of the Present: Witness in Kashmir and Palestine
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St
Sep 30, 2022
Nayanika Mathur — Writing the Anthropocene from the Indian Himalaya
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST McKinney Conference Rm, 111 Thayer St
Sep 28, 2022
TM Krishna — Art & Activism - Meaning and Purpose
4pm – 5:30pm McKinney Conference Rm, 111 Thayer St
Sep 16, 2022
P. Saravanamuttu — Sri Lanka in Crisis: Democratic Governance Imperiled?
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St.
Sep 9, 2022
Ali Sethi — Live in Concert
5:30pm to 6:30pm EST Starr Plaza, behind Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St.
Rain location: Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook St.
Sep 9–10, 2022
Saxena Center Inauguration | Marginalization & Inclusion in South Asia: Economics, Politics and Culture
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St
Apr 8, 2022
Ramachandra Guha in Conversation with Leela Gandhi
10:00am - 11:30am EST / 7:30 - 9:00pm IST
Mar 18, 2022
Farhana Sultana — Critical Climate Justice
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST Register to join the webinar
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 Rm, 111 Thayer St
Feb 25, 2022
Karen Coelho — Remaking the Urban in the Margins: Resettlement Colonies and Differential Inclusion in India
10:00am - 11:30am EST/ 8:30pm-10:00pm IST
Feb 18, 2022
Sangeeta Banerji — Fixing Mumbai: Broker-life, Expertise, and Technology in the Urban Bureaucracy
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer St
Feb 4, 2022
Dec 10, 2021
Debjani Bhattacharyya — Climate Ledgers: Law and Imperial Finance in the Indian Ocean World
Nov 15, 2021
Swarnim Wagle — The Twin Challenge of Development Catch-up and Democratic Consolidation in Low-Income Countries: The Case of Nepal
Oct 15, 2021
Mushfiq Mobarak — Returns to International Migration: Evidence from a Bangladesh-Malaysia Visa Lottery
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer St
Oct 15, 2021
Oct 13, 2021
Understanding the Crisis in Afghanistan
4:00pm - 6:00pm EST True North Classroom, Stephen Robert Hall '62, 280 Brook St
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Oct 8, 2021
Arvind Subramanian & Raghuram Rajan (Discussant) – Is the Indian Economy Back?
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St
Oct 1, 2021
Debashree Mukherjee — Bombay Hustle: Labor and Ecological Entanglements in 1930s Cinema
2:00pm - 4:00pm EST McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer St