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Spring 2017 Events
February 3, 2017, 3:00 am - May 27, 2017, 1:00 pm
The Future of India’s Land Wars
A talk by Michael Levien, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
Discussant: Aaron Jakes, Assistant Professor of Historical Studies, New School
Friday, February 3, 12:30-2pm
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
Life is Queerer Than a Chessboard: On Cows, Violence, and Love in Contemporary India
A talk by Naisargi Dave, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Friday, February 10, 12:30-2pm
20 Cooper Square, 2nd Floor
2017 South Asia Conference: Inequality in South Asia
Friday, February 24-25, 2017
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
Courtly Rituals And Material Culture In Medieval South India: “The Bearer Of The Betel Bag”
A talk by Daud Ali, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Friday, March 3,12:30-2pm
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
Colonial Knowledge and the Construction of Historical Memory
Talk by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (James Madison Universisty), Ben Hopkins (George Washington University), Robert Nichols (Stockton University)
Friday, March 10, 12:30-2pm
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
Bangladeshi Women Organizing for Social Change
Friday, March 24, 12:30-2pm
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
Bangladesh and Islam: Locating Difference
A roundtable discussion with Neilesh Bose, University of Victoria), Elora Shehabuddin (Rice University), Satadru Sen (Queens College, CUNY) and Saadia Toor (Staten Island, CUNY)
Friday, March 31, 12:30-2pm
20 Cooper Square, 2nd Floor
(EVENT CANCELLED)
Friday, April 7, 12:30-2pm
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
Swimmer Among the Stars
Discussion on Book by Kanishk Tharoor, moderated by Rajesh Parameswaran, chaired by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Friday, April 14, 12:30-2pm
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
Rethinking Dalit Politics in the New India
Discussion by Navyug Gill (William Patterson University), Purvi Mehta (Colorado College), and Suraj Yengde (Harvard University)
Friday, April 21, 12:30-2pm
20 Cooper Square, 2nd Floor
India’s Ruling Elite
Talk by Milan Vaishnav, Kanchan Chandra, Lisa Bjorkman, Simon Chauchard
Friday, April 28, 12:30-2pm
20 Cooper Square, 2nd Floor
