CSAS South Asian Film Series | Girls Will Be Girls
First of our Spotlight On Women Directors series...
CSAS Lecture Series | Antar: Translation and the Afterlives of Gandhi’s Autobiography
Rita Kothari, Ashoka University
Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth, is one of the most translated...
Brotherless Night Book Reading: V. V. Ganeshananthan
Join American fiction writer, essayist, and journalist V. V. "Sugi" Ganeshananthan as she reads from her new book...
CSAS Lecture Series | Globalizing through the Vernacular: Kothis, Hijras and the Making of Queer and Trans Identities in India
Aniruddha Dutta, University of Iowa
This talk will analyze the relation between dominant frameworks of LGBTQ+ identity in India and non-elite, non-metropolitan communities such...
CSAS Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Criss-crossing narratives of empire: Sir Syed at Versailles and the French conquest of Algeria
David Lelyveld
In 1869, Sayyid Ahmad Khan (“Sir Syed”) made a brief stop in Paris on his way to a life-transforming journey to Britain. At Versailles,...
CSAS Summer in South Asia Symposium | 2024 Summer in South Asia Fellows
Beginning in 2006, and thanks to a generous gift from an anonymous donor, the Summer in South Asia Fellowship (SiSA) has provided more than...
CSAS Cultural Event | Varta Storytelling Festival
Peerbagh
Peerbagh is a young nonprofit committed to diversifying bookshelves and developing storytellers. It primarily spotlights South-Asian...
CSAS Lecture Series | Coming of Age in Macholand: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Transnationality in Post-Conflict Punjab
Harjant Gill, Towson University
In Indian Punjab, a culture dominated almost entirely by men, learning to become a man is a process fraught with violence. Disillusioned by...
CSAS Lecture Series | Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought
Nazmul Sultan, University of British Columbia
This lecture will explore how a foundational set of disputes over the terms of modern peoplehood underwrote the formation of the democratic...
CSAS Lecture Series | Countering Misinformation Early: A Sustained Media Literacy Intervention for School Children in India
Sumitra Badrinathan, American University
As evidenced during the Covid-19 crisis, medical misinformation and false beliefs in alternative treatments may have dramatic consequences,...
