South Asia program events calendar ∙ Fall 2024

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.

August

*Thursday, August 29 @ 12:00 pm EDT | Virtual | Bangladesh Now: Beyond the Headlines | Farhana Sultana (Geography, Syracuse University), Dina M. Siddiqi (Clinical Professor, Global Liberal Studies, New York University), Muhib Rahman (Postdoctoral Associate in Government, Cornell University) & Kazi Farzana Shoily, (PhD Candidate in History, Syracuse University)

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)

*Thursday, September 26 @ 7 pm EDT | The Soil Factory, 142 Ithaca Beer Dr, Ithaca | Journalism, Writing, and Inequality | P. Sainath (Founding Editor, People’s Archive of Rural India)

*Friday, September 27 @ 12:00 pm EDT | Milstein Auditorium | Migrants and the Moral Economy of the Urban Elite | 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 | The Socio-Economic History of the Parsis in Gujarat, c.17th to 19th Centuries | Kaveh Yazdani (History, University of Connecticut)

*Thursday, October 10 @ 12:00 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 homeland’: Caste, Nation, and Decolonisation | Priyamvada Gopal (English, 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 25 @ 12:15 pm EST | The Question of Treason: Just Rebellion and Colonial Law | Bhavani Raman (History, University of Toronto)

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

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