FALL 2022
This semester the South Asia Program is hosting both in person and virtual events. All in person events are open to the Cornell community members only. All virtual events are open to the public and require registration.
All in person events are on Mondays @ 12:15 pm Eastern (New York) Time, in G08 Uris Hall (*unless otherwise indicated)
All virtual events are on Mondays @ 11:00 am Eastern (New York) Time, on Zoom (*unless otherwise indicated)
August - In Person
*Thursday, August 25 @ 5:30 pm EDT | Afghanistan One Year Later: Reflections on Life Under the Taliban| Sharif Hozoori, (South Asia Program, Cornell University) & Zinab Attai (Government, Cornell University)
September - In Person
*Saturday, September 10 @ 9:30 am EDT, Kahin Center | Kashmir in the Global Humanities: Genres, Poetics, Ecologies
Monday, September 12 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India | Lalitha Gopalan (Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin)
*Thursday, September 29 @ 5:15 pm EDT | Stoikov Lecture on Asian Art | Johnson Museum of Art Lecture Hall | Navina Haidar (Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah Curator in Charge, Department of Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
September - Virtual
*Thursday, September 8 @ 11:25 am EDT | Built to Fail: How Bureaucratic and Institutional Origins Undermined State Building in Afghanistan | Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili (Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh)
Monday, September 19 @ 11:00 am EDT | Locating the Affluent Middle Class in Dhaka, Bangladesh | Seuty Sabur (Anthropology, BRAC University, Bangladesh)
October - In Person
Monday, October 3 @ 12:15 pm EDT | The (Un)Livable City: Food and Embodied Ambivalence in India's IT Capital | Camille Frazier (Anthropology, Clarkson University)
*Friday, October 7 and Saturday, October 8 | Syracuse University | State and Society in Asia: Past and Present New York Conference on Asian Studies
*Wednesday, October 12 @ 4:45 pm EDT, 401 PSB | Mother Ocean, Father Nation | Nishant Batsha (Novelist) in conversation with Durba Ghosh (History, Cornell University)
Monday, October 17 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Apparel Innovations, Sustainable Interventions, and Ethical Aspirations: Garment Manufacturing in Sri Lanka | Denise Green (Fiber Science and Apparel Design, Cornell University)
Monday, October 24@ 12:15 pm EDT | Life After Death: Ritual and Placemaking in Old Delhi | Kalyani Devaki Menon (Religious Studies, DePaul University)
October - Virtual
*Thursday, October 20 @ 11:25 am EDT | Why and How Gandhi Civilized Disobedience | Karuna Mantena (Political Science, Columbia University)
Monday, October 31 @ 11:00 am EDT | Deep solidarity? Reflections on post-colonial solidarities in a moment of national and global crisis | Harshana Rambukwella (English, Open University of Sri Lanka)
November - In Person
*Tuesday, November 1 @ 4:45 pm EDT | A.D. White House | Colonial State-Building in a Persianate World: Mughal Law and the Making of British India | Robert Travers (History, Cornell University)
Monday, November 7 @ 12:15 pm EST | BOOK TALK: Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders | Isabel Huacuja Alonso (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University)
Monday, November 14 @ 12:15 pm EST | Rabindranath Tagore's Pirate Surrealism and the 1930 Paris Exhibition | Rakhee Balaram (Global Art & Art History, University of Albany)
*Tuesday, November 15 @ 3:30 pm EST | Panel Discussion: The Context and Legacy of the Partition of India through Works of Art | Iftikhar Dadi (History of Art and Visual Arts, Cornell University), Durba Ghosh (History, Cornell), Ellen Avril (Judith H. Stoikov Curator of Asian Art, Johnson Museum), Zain Abid, (Visitor Services Intern, Johnson Museum)
Monday, November 28 @ 12:15 pm EST | The closed and the Open Prison: Contested Imaginaries and the Limits of Openness | Trishna Senapaty (Anthropology, Cornell University)
November - Virtual
Monday, November 21 @ 11:00 am EST | Refugee Cities: How Afghans Transformed Pakistan | Sanaa Alimia (Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, UK) in conversation with Aziz Hakimi (Sociology, Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Norway)
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Photo by Nipun Prabhakar