CSAS Lecture Series | Buddhism, Secularism and the Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka
Ben Schonthal, Associate Professor of Buddhism and Asian Religions and Associate Dean (International) for the Humanities Division, University of Otago, New Zealand
More than half of all constitutions in South and Southeast Asia give special privileges and/or status to a single religion. Despite this...
CSAS Lecture Series | Summer in South Asia Fellowship Symposium
Ten undergraduate students were selected to be 2018 Summer in South Asia Fellows. Fellows designed, implemented, and enacted their proposals...
CSAS Lecture Series | Lucknow in Letters: Endeavours, Achievements, and Tragedies
Sanjay Muttoo, Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism, Kamla Nehru College, Delhi University
"Lucknow in Letters" is a multilingual (Urdu, English and Hindi) reading of personal letters written to/from Lucknow along with some...
CSAS Thomas Trautmann Endowed Lecture | Conflict, Violence and Resistance in Ancient India
Upinder Singh, Professor of History, Ashoka University (Sonepat)
Our understanding of the past changes dramatically when we recognize violence as an intimate and important part of human experience that...
International Institute Conference.
Indigenous Languages: From Endangerment to Revitalization and Resilience
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2019 as the Year of Indigenous Languages, and the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues...
CSAS Lecture Series | A Vigil Wasted? Notes on the Ruin-Sublime in Afghanistan
Mrinalini Chakravorty, Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia
As abandoned remnants of human activity, ruins evoke concerns about the durability of the past, a setting, and of human perception and...
CSAS DATLA Endowed Lecture | Dark Genealogies: Ambedkar's Struggles with History
Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Indian Politics and Intellectual History, Columbia University
I have been reading Ambedkar closely over the last few years, but intermittently. This will give me a chance to focus on a single question...
CSAS Lecture Series | “We Were Always Buddhist:" Caste Emancipation and Sexual Politics in South India
Lucinda Ramberg, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
I am a medical and sociocultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of several fields including...
CSAS Lecture Series | Digital Tamil Cinema: Tendencies, Trends, and Possibilities
Swarnavel Eswaran, Associate Professor, English and Media Information, Michigan State University
Dr. Swarnavel Eswaran is an associate professor in the English and MI (Media and Information) Departments at Michigan State University. He...
CSAS Lecture Series | Understanding the New Credibility Regimes of Development: The Politics of Sanitary Pads as a Pro-Poor Technology in India
Shobita Parthasarathy, Professor of Public Policy, U-M
Technology has long played a central role in efforts to alleviate global poverty, with international NGOs and developed world governments...
CSAS Lecture Series | Of Commodities and Frontiers: Looking for "Capitalism" on the Edges of Britain’s Indian Colonies
Subir Sinha, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Subir Sinha studied History at the University of Delhi (BA) and Political Science at Northwestern University (MS, PhD), and has taught at...
Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia 2019
Keynote by Indrani Chatterjee, Professor — PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
For complete details and the conference schedule, please see the conference website:...
CSAS Lecture Series | Practicing Vulnerability -- Men's Rights Activists, Embodiment and Appropriation
Srimati Basu, Professor, Gender and Women's Studies; Anthropology, University of Kentucky
Srimati Basu is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Anthropology, and a member of the Committee on Social Theory and the Asia...
CSAS Lecture Series | Film’s Mise-en-Scène as Labor’s Social Space
Priya Jaikumar, Associate Professor, Division of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
Cinema’s heterogeneous artifactual status—as a regulated and profit-making commodity, technological apparatus, representational medium...
