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December 2016

Fri
Dec 9
7:30am-12:00pm

Vijay Prashad | Western Bombs, Eastern Destruction: What the idea of regime change has wrought from Iraq to Libya

Book Launch and discussion with Vijay Prashad on the geopolitics of the Middle East in the broader context of revolutionary history,  featuring Aaron Jakes and Ahmad Shokr. Vijay Prashad is George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies, Trinity College. Aaron Jakes is assistant professor of historical studies at the New School, where he is also a faculty fellow at the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. Ahmad Shokr is a Junior Research Fellow at the Crown Center…

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Institute for Public Knowledge, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 United States
Fri
Dec 2
7:30am-9:00am

Lawrence Liang | Viral Indignation and Immediate(d) Justice : The Politics of Legal Trials and Social Media in Contemporary India

Talk by Lawrence Liang, Professor of law at Ambedkar University, Delhi, co founder of the Alternative Law Forum, and Rice Visiting Fellow in the South Asian Studies Council at the MacMillan Center, Yale University

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Institute for Public Knowledge, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 United States

November 2016

Fri
Nov 18
7:30am-9:00am

Shaloo Rakheja | New Science and Disruptive Technologies

Talk by Shaloo Rakheja, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering

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Institute for Public Knowledge, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 United States
Fri
Nov 11
7:30am-9:00am

Rohini Pande | Working for Women: Can Benefits Payment Policy Encourage Female Labor Force Participation? Evidence from India

Talk by Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

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Institute for Public Knowledge, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 United States
Thu
Nov 3
8:30pm-10:00am

Decolonial Computing: Histories and Futures

Decolonial Computing: Histories and Futures Against dominant developmentalist approaches, panelists present critical research on computing from the global South. Conference on the history and anthropology of computing With Simone Browne, Sociology, UT Austin, Lily Irani, Communication, UCSD, Jack Qiu, Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Anita Say Chan, College of Media, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Half Day Conference Hosted by Department of Media, Culture and Communication Friday, November 4, 12:30-2pm Location TBA

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October 2016

Mon
Oct 31
8:00am-10:00am

Emerging Asia

A panel discussion on the Geopolitics of India, South Asia, the US and China with Shivshankar Menon Former Foreign Secretary and National Security Advisor to the Government of India, former Indian Ambassador to China and Israel and High Commissioner to Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and author of Choices: Inside the Making of Indian Foreign Policy (2016) and David Malone Rector of the United Nations University, former Canadian High Commissioner to India and non-resident Ambassador to Bhutan and Nepal, and co-editor…

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Institute for Public Knowledge, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 United States
Fri
Oct 28
1:00pm-3:30pm

P. Sainath | The People's Archive of Rural India

Discussion Featuring: P. Sainath is India’s most highly awarded journalist and a winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Prize. Sainath’s book Everybody Loves A Good Drought was declared a Penguin Classic in 2013 and remains Penguin India’s highest selling non-fiction volume.   He is the founder and editor of the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI). Siddhartha Deb is the author of two novels and The Beautiful and the Damned. A columnist for the The New York Times Book Review and a contributing editor the The New Republic, his writing has…

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Cantor Boardroom, 11th floor, Stern School of Business, 44 West 4th Street NY United States
Fri
Oct 28
8:30am-10:30am

Arif Yousuf | Blockade: Nonviolent Resistance for the Liberation of Bangladesh

Film Screening: 'Blockade: Nonviolent Resistance for the Liberation of Bangladesh' Discussion by Arif Yousuf, Filmmaker and discussant Timothy Naftali, Clinical Associate Professor of Public Service & Co-Director of NYU’s Center for the United States and the Cold War

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Institute for Public Knowledge, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 United States
Fri
Oct 21
4:00am-1:00pm

India and Pakistan: A Subcontinental Affair

Ever since the Partition in 1947, India and Pakistan's relationship has been bound by conflict. Let's talk about it. NYU has come together for a conference that brings an expected 400+ attendees throughout the two days with 30+ speakers. For the first time, United States' undergraduate students from both countries join with top Indian and Pakistani leaders to discuss Indo-Pak relations on themes like: Kashmir, Cinema, Nuclear Warfare, Corruption, Jugaad, Politics, China and the US in regards to India and Pakistan, Partition, the United…

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NYU Kimmel 369 United States
Fri
Oct 14
8:30am-10:00am

Subasri Krishnan | What the Fields Remember

Film Screening: 'What the Fields Remember', on the Nellie Massacre of Muslims in Assam in 1983 Discussion by Subasri Krishnan, FilmmakerDiscussion and QA will be led by Humayun Kabir, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY & Adjunct Lecturer, Political Science, Baruch College and Queens College, CUNY

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Institute for Public Knowledge, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 United States
Fri
Oct 7
8:30am-10:00am

Sangay Mishra | South Asian American Political Lives: 2016 Elections and Beyond

Panel Discussion on Sangay Mishra’s Desis Divided: The Political Lives of South Asian Americans (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) By Sangay Misra, Visiting Assistant Professor, Drew University and Paula Chakravartty, Associate Professor, MCC and the Gallatin School

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Institute for Public Knowledge, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 United States


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Third Annual IAAC Literary Festival

http://www.iaac.us/Literary-Festival2016/festival-schedule.htm Somini Sengupta, Suketu Mehta, Shashi Tharoor, Ruchir Sharma, Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, Bapsi Sidhwa, Barkha Dutt, Meena Alexander, Preet Bharara and many more! NYU Kimmel Center Ticketed Event

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NYU Kimmel 369 United States

September 2016

Fri
Sep 30
8:30am-10:00am

Sanjay Ruparelia | What Happened to the Indian Left?

Discussion on Sanjay Ruparelia’s book on the Indian left, 'Divided We Govern' (Hurst, 2016) By Sanjay Ruparelia, Associate Professor of Politics, New School, Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor, Indian Politics and Intellectual History, Columbia University and Kanchan Chandra, Professor of Politics, New York University

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Institute for Public Knowledge, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 United States
Fri
Sep 23
8:30am-10:00am

Peter Sutoris | Visions of Development: Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75

This is a discussion of the Indian state’s ideology of development as represented in documentaries made by the Films Division of India. Discussion by Peter Sutoris, Author and Filmmaker, Nilita Vachani, Filmmaker and Teacher, Tisch School, and David Ludden, Professor of History.

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Institute for Public Knowledge, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 United States
Fri
Sep 16
8:30am-10:00am

Katepalli Sreenivasan | Abdus Salam and the Politics of the Atomic Bomb in South Asia

Cosponsored by: NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Pakistani Student's Association This is a talk by Katepalli Sreenivasan, President and Dean of Engineering at NYU, The Eugene Kleiner Professor for Innovation in Mechanical Engineering. Katepalli Sreenivasan is President of NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Dean of Engineering, where he also serves as Executive Vice Provost in charge of science and technology. Prior to coming to NYU, he served from 2003 to 2009 as the director of the International Centre for…

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Institute for Public Knowledge, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 United States


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Fall 2016 Events

Abdus Salam and the politics of the Atomic Bomb in South Asia Talk by Katepalli Sreenivasan, President and Dean of Engineering at NYU, The Eugene Kleiner Professor for Innovation in Mechanical Engineering Cosponsored by: NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Pakistani Student's Association Friday, September 16, 12:30-2pm 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor Visions of Development: Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75 Discussion of the Indian state’s ideology of development as represented in documentaries made by the Films Division…

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NYU – Various, 1 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003 United States
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