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
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.
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
Dec 8, 2017
Sudhir Krishnaswamy ─ Directive Principles or Social Rights: Constitutional Approaches to Social Justice in India
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Dec 6, 2017
Adnan Naseemullah — The Colonial Construction of Political Orders: Uneven State-Building and its Consequences in South Asia
12pm – 2pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Nov 17, 2017
Nusrat Chowdhury – The Body of the Crowd
2pm – 4pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Nov 10, 2017
Raza Rumi ─ Democratic Transition in Pakistan: Prospects and Challenges
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Oct 26, 2017
Film Screening: Nostalgia for the Future with Directors Avijit Mukul Kishore & Rohan Shivkumar
6:30pm – 8:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Oct 13, 2017
Tarun Khanna – Crowdsourcing memories: Lessons from the 1947 Partition of British India
2pm – 4pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Oct 6, 2017
Steps Towards a Global Thought: Thinking from Elsewhere
9am – 5pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
May 5, 2017
Rahul Mediratta ─ Globalization in the Shadows: Smuggling and India-Pakistan Trade Normalization
3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Apr 21, 2017
Naisargi Dave ─ On Context and Contradiction: The Politics of Humans and Animals in Contemporary India
3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Kim Koo Library, Watson Institute
Mar 20, 2017
Nile Green ─ The Afghan Discovery of Buddha: Towards a Transnational Intellectual History
6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Mar 17, 2017
Film Screening of "There's Something in the Air" and Discussion with Director Iram Ghufran and Bhrigupati Singh
3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute