Feb 9, 2018
Shahzad Bashir ─ India as a Sufi Timespace in the work of Jamali of Delhi
2pm – 4pm Joukowsky Forum, 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.
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
Mar 3, 2017
Manan Ahmed ─ A Conquest of Pasts
3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Feb 27, 2017
Mahesh Rangarajan – Nature's Present Environment, Society and Science in Contemporary India
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Feb 24, 2017
Kris Manjapra ─ Apprentice, Pauper, Coolie, Convict: Laboring Subjects and the Global Plantation Complex in the 19th Century
3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Feb 10, 2017
Sudipta Kaviraj ─ Must we say what we don't mean? On the language of Indian social science
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsy Forum, Watson Institute
Dec 2, 2016
Gail Omvedt ─ Contemporary Relevance of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar's Theory for Annihilation of Caste Today
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Nov 4, 2016
Saeed Naqvi ─ Being the Other: The Muslim in India
2pm – 4pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Oct 21, 2016
P. Sainath ─ The Everyday Lives of Everyday People
Reporting and researching the world's most complex region in the digital age
2:30pm – 4:30pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St, Providence, RI 02912
Oct 20, 2016
Sunila Galappatti ─ A Long Watch: War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka
5pm – 6:30pm Birkelund Board Room, Watson Institute
Oct 12, 2016
Barkha Dutt, NDTV | India ─ Pakistan: Can they come back from the brink?
4pm – 6pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02912
Oct 7, 2016
Kamran Asdar Ali ─ On Female Friendships: Saheli and Sexual Politics in 1960s Cinema
2pm – 4pm Birkelund Board Room, Watson Institute
Sep 30, 2016
Lawrence Liang ─ Just and Not Just Animals: The Legal Challenge of Animals in Contemporary Cases in India
10am – 12pm Birkelund Board Room
Apr 8, 2016