SPRING 2026
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.
February
Monday, February 2 @ 12:15 pm EST | Where the Ghosts of War Sleep: Enemy Property and the Ruins of 1971 in Pakistan | Sadia Mahmood (South Asia Program, Cornell University)
Monday, February 9 @ 12:15 pm EST | Allure and Ambivalence: The Indian Aesthetic in Contemporary Thai Religious Worlds | Aditya Bhattacharjee (Asian Studies, Cornell University)
Monday, February 23 @ 12:15 pm EST | Assembling India’s Constitution: A New Democratic History | Rohit De (History, Yale University) and Ornit Shani (Asian Studies, University of Haifa)
March
Monday, March 2 @ 12:15 pm EST | Crafting the Empire’s Echo: Design, Labor, and Politics in Contemporary India | Llerena Searle (Anthropology, University of Rochester)
Monday, March 9 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Administering the Environment: The Expert-Panel Report as a Form of Knowledge | Aniket Aga (Geography, University at Buffalo)
Monday, March 16 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Lunglen: Writing with Community | Karen Donoghue (Journalism and Mass Communication, North Eastern Hill University)
*Thursday, March 19 @ 4:45 pm EDT | Guerlac Room, A. D. White House | Speculative Fiction from South Asia: A Conversation with Vajra Chandrasekera | Anindita Banerjee (Comparative Literature, Cornell University) and Suman Seth (Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University)
Monday, March 23 @ 12:15 pm EDT | “I am saying take the medicine”: Psychopharmaceutical Subjectivities in Contemporary Maldives | Anu Ahmed (Anthropology, University of Rochester)
*Tuesday, March 24 @ 4:45 pm EDT | G22 Goldwin Smith Hall | TBD | Murad Khan Mumtaz (Art, Williams College)
April
*Friday, April 10 @ 3:00 pm EDT | 120 Mary Ann Wood Drive B21 | TBD | Anand Taneja (Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University)
*Friday, April 10 & Saturday, April 11 @ 9:00 am EDT | Kahin Center | The Politics of Culture in Peninsular India and Sri Lanka, 900-1500 AD conference
Monday, April 13 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Architectural Epistemologies at Famine Relief Camps, India ca. 1890 | Ateya Khorakiwala (Architecture, Columbia University)
*Friday, April 17 @ 12:20 pm EDT | Milstein Auditorium | TBD | Nikhil Anand (Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania )
Monday, April 20 @ 12:15 pm EDT | The Birth of Indian Liberalism | Rahul Sagar (Political Science, NYU Abu Dhabi)
Monday, April 27 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Listening to Archives: Islam and Politics in Modern Kashmir | Suvaid Yaseen (Asian Studies, Hamilton College)