FALL 2024
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 9 @ 12:15 pm EDT | A Good Shelf: Book Collections and the Spatial Culture of Reading in British Colonial India | Swati Chattopadhyay (History of Art & Architecture, University of California-Santa Barbara)
Monday, September 16 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Quinine’s Remains: Empire’s Medicine and the Life Thereafter | Townsend Middleton (Anthropology, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill)
Monday, September 23 @ 12:15 pm EDT | The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom - Who, Really, Were India’s Anti-colonial Raj Fighters? | P. Sainath (Founding Editor, People’s Archive of Rural India)
Monday, September 30 @ 12:15 pm EDT | One Day/Thirty Years: Theoretical Storytelling Between Tibet, Kathmandu, and Toronto | Carole McGranahan (Anthropology, University of Colorado)
October
Monday, October 7 @ 12:15 pm EDT | TBA | Kaveh Yazdani (History, University of Connecticut)
*Thursday, October 10 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Colonizing Kashmir | Hafsa Kanjwal (History, Lafayette College)
Monday, October 21 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Feminist Friendships and Third World Solidarity: Bangladesh, South Asia, and Worldmaking in the Late Twentieth Century | Elora Shehabuddin (Gender & Women's Studies and Global Studies, University of California, Berkeley)
Monday, October 28 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Women, Work and the Role of Technology | Farzana Afridi (Economics, Indian Statistical Institute)
November
Monday, November 4 @ 12:15 pm EST | Why Don’t Indian Voters Hold Politicians Accountable For Air Pollution? | Tariq Thachil (Political Science, University of Pennsylvania)
Monday, November 11 @ 12:15 pm EST | ‘Gandhiji, I have no country’: Caste, Nation, and Decolonisation | Priyamvada Gopal (Postcolonial Studies, University of Cambridge)
Monday, November 18 @ 12:15 pm EST | "Speculations on a Shirt":* The Photographic Ecology of the Working Classes in Bombay/Mumbai/Bambai, 1970s-1990s | Ayesha Matthan (History of Art, Cornell University)
Monday, November 18 @ 12:15 pm EST | TBA | Bhavani Raman (History, University of Toronto)
December
Monday, December 2 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Individuating Identity in Postcolonial Pakistan | Zehra Hashmi (History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania )