SPRING 2022
This semester the South Asia Program is hosting both in person and virtual events. All in person events are open to 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)
January - Virtual
Monday, January 31 @ 11:00 am EST | Art of Brand India: Aesthetics and Economy of Hope in the early Twenty-First-Century | Ravinder Kaur, Modern South Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen
February - In Person
Monday, February 21 @ 12:15 pm EST | Caricaturing Religious Difference and the Pop Culture Muslim | Samah Choudhury, Religious Studies, Ithaca College
February - Virtual
Monday, February 7 @ 11:00 am EST | An ‘Unlawful Object of Gathering’: Stealing a Corpse in 1927 Delhi | Kelsey Jane Utne, History, Cornell University
Monday, February 14 @11:00 am EST | Revolution and Slums in Bombay | Juned Shaikh, History, University of California, Santa Cruz
March - In person
*Wednesday, March 9 @ 4:45 pm EDT | Beyond the Camp and the Surgery: Cochlear Implants and Complex Dependencies in India | Michele Friedner, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
Monday, March 14 @ 12:15 pm EST |Political elites matter: an inside out approach explaining the peace, conflict and foreign policy of Afghanistan | Sharif Hozoori, Visiting Scholar, South Asia Program, Cornell University
*Friday, March 25 @ 9:00 am EDT, Syracuse University | Genealogies of Anti-Asian/Asia Violences symposium
March - Virtual
Monday, March 7 @ 11:00 am EST | Separating Sindh, Connecting Partitions: Territorializing Minority Representation before Partition | Uttara Shahani, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK
Monday, March 21 @ 11:00 am EDT | Crooked Cats: Beastly Tales from India | Nayanika Mathur, Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK
April - In Person
*Friday, April 15 @ 12:00 pm EDT, 274 Rockefeller Hall | Of Karma and Grace: Mediating Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka | Neena Mahadev, Anthropology, Yale-NUS College
*Saturday, April 16 & Sunday, April 17 @ 7:00 pm EDT, Cornell Cinema | Pebbles, film screening
*Friday, April 22 @ 4:45 pm EDT, Kahin Center | Rabindrinath Tagore Lecture in Modern Indian Literature | Cheran, Poet, Toronto, Canada
*Saturday, April 23 @ 9:00 am EDT, Kahin Center | Writing Sri Lanka graduate student conference
Monday, April 25 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Sectarianism or Separatism: The Shia Dilemma and the Discourse of Azadi in Kashmir | Syed Jaleel Hussain, Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia, India
*Wednesday, April 27 @ 4:45 pm EDT | Toilers' Movements, Freedom Dreams: Class, Gender, and Caste Struggles in India | Bharat Patankar, President, Shramik Mukti Dal
April - Virtual
Monday, April 11 @ 11:00 am EDT | Futures Past: Revolution, Communism, and Decolonization in Colonial India | Ali Raza, History, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
*Friday, April 15 @ 3:00 pm EDT | Anthropology Colloquium | Austin Lord, Anthropology, Cornell University
Monday, April 18 @ 11:00 am EDT | Collision Amid Collusion: Women’s Activism Across the Wings of Pakistan | Elora Shehabuddin, Transnational Asian Studies, Rice University
May - Virtual
Monday, May 2 @ 12:15 pm EDT | Gokul Joshi and Revolutionary Asceticism among Nepali “People’s Singers” | Anna Stirr, Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa