Feb 20, 2020
Atul Kohli — Imperialism and the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery
12pm – 2pm Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St
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.
Feb 14, 2020
Sahana Ghosh — Four Weddings and a Rice-eating ceremony: A biography of the India-Bangladesh border
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Rm, 111 Thayer St
Dec 6, 2019
Jayita Sarkar — The Ploughshares and Swords in India’s Nuclear Explosion of 1974
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Rm, 111 Thayer St
Nov 15, 2019
Shandana Khan Mohmand — Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters: Democracy Under Inequality in Rural Pakistan
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St
Nov 8, 2019
Namita Dharia — The Politics of Pyaar (love) in India's Construction Industry
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St
Oct 25, 2019
Zia Mian – Crossing the Line: Kashmir, Pakistan and India Under the Nuclear Shadow
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St
Oct 4, 2019
Andrea Jain – Peace, Love, Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St
Sep 27, 2019
Mani Shankar Aiyar — Recent Developments in Kashmir
2pm – 4pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St
Sep 20, 2019
Aatish Taseer & Karan Mahajan – The tyranny of place: A conversation
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St
Sep 13, 2019
James McHugh – The History of Alcohol and Drugs in Pre-modern South Asia
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St
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