FALL 2025
All events are in person on Mondays @ 12:15 pm Eastern (New York) Time in G08 Uris Hall (*unless otherwise indicated). All events are open to the public.
September
Monday, September 8 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Bande Mataram!: Song, Slogan, Sentiment | Ronojoy Sen (Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore)
*Friday, September 12 @ 4:00 pm EDT | A. D. White House | Cultivating a Southasian Public: Film Screening and Discussion | Beena Sarwar, (SAPAN), and Ronojoy Sen (Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore)
Monday, September 15 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Errant youth: Circling the subcontinent, 1968 | Ann Gold (Religion, Syracuse University)
*Friday, September 19 @ 4:30 pm EDT | Guerlac Room, A. D. White House | 15th Annual Tagore Lecture--Mixed Metaphors: Adventures in Translationland | Daisy Rockwell (Artist, writer, and Hindi-Urdu translator)
Monday, September 29 @ 12:15 pm EDT | On Being Bengali: Abul Mansur Ahmed’s Politics of Language | Ahona Panda (History, Claremont McKenna College)
October
Monday, October 6 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Book Introduction Workshop: Selective Welcome: Pakistani Hindus in India | Natasha Raheja (Anthropology, Cornell University)
Monday, October 20 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Delta Futures: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier | Jason Cons (Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin)
Monday, October 27 @ 12:15 pm EDT | The Paradox of Economic Nationalism: How India's Quest for Self-Reliance Constrains its Global Ambitions | Rohit Lamba (Economics, Cornell University)
November
Monday, November 3 @ 12:15 pm EST | Crafting the Empire’s Echo: Design, Labor, and Politics in Contemporary India | Llerena Searle (Anthropology, University of Rochester)
Monday, November 10 @ 12:15 pm EST | Peasant History and the Accumulation of Difference in Colonial Panjab | Navyug Gill (History, William Paterson University)
Monday, November 17 @ 12:15 pm EST | Ante/ Anti-Border: Literatures of Resistance in India and Pakistan | Sara Kazmi (English, University of Pennsylvania)
December
Monday, December 1 @ 12:15 pm EST | Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made | David Engerman (History, Yale University)
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Image: Bangladesh Road Safety Protest 2018 by Jubair 1985