South Asia program events calendar ∙ spring 2025

SPRING 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.

January

Monday, January 27 @ 12:15 pm EST | What's Up with the Indian Economy? | Rohit Lamba (Economics, Cornell University)

February

Monday, February 3 @ 12:15 pm EST | Exploring Intersectional and Syndemic Barriers to HIV Care Among Transgender Women in Mumbai and New Delhi, India | William Lodge II (Public Policy, Cornell University)

Monday, February 10 @ 12:15 pm EST | A Subaltern Crematorium of India? Bombay, 1918 – 1953 | Sohini Chattopadhyay (History, Union College)

Monday, February 24 @ 12:15 pm EST | The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India | Pinky Hota (Anthropology, Smith College)

*Friday, February 28 @ 9:00 am EST | Syracuse University | Alternate Methodologies and the Future of Research in South Asia: Destabilizing Monolithic Imaginaries and Problematic Practices graduate student symposium

March

Monday, March 3 @ 12:15 pm EST | Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia | Rajbir Judge (History, California State University, Long Beach)

Monday, March 10 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Environmental Exception and Martyrdom in Sindh, Pakistan | Abdul Haque Chang (Social Sciences, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi)

Monday, March 17 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Rights, Sovereignty, and Resistance: Rethinking the Cantonment in Colonial South Asia | Prashant Kidambi (History, University of Leicester)

*Tuesday, March 18 @ 4:45 pm EDT | Seymour Lecture in Sports History: Cricket and the Idea of India | Prashant Kidambi (History, University of Leicester)

Monday, March 24 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Theory from the Trenches: Decolonization and the Promise of Subaltern Marxism | Shozab Raza (Anthropology, University of Toronto)

April

Monday, April 7 @ 12:15 pm EDT | “Have They Seen God in Cosmos?”: Science, Religion and Postcolonial Curiosities | Renny Thomas (Sociology & Social Anthropology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal)

Monday, April 14 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Seduced by God or Man? Framing Religious Conversions and Women’s Desire in Pakistan | Ghazal Asif (Anthropology, Lahore University of Management Science)

Monday, April 21 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India | Amanda Lanzillo (History, University of Chicago)

Monday, April 28 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Individuating Identity in Postcolonial Pakistan | Zehra Hashmi (History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania)

May

*Friday, May 2 @ 5:00 pm EDT | 142 Goldwin Smith Hall | Paradise film screening

*Saturday, May 3 @ 9:00 am EDT | Kahin Center | Sri Lanka in Context: Critical Perspectives graduate student conference

This seminar series is partially funded by a National Resource Center grant from the U.S. Department of Education

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