Happening @ Michigan

CSAS Lecture Series | Changes in Dowry Practices?: Insights on Dowry and Its Regulation

Vikramaditya Khanna, William W. Cook Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

The Law in India has prohibited demands for dowry since 1961 and expected penalties have been increased multiple times since then, but from...

CSAS Lecture Series | Sarandib, Lanka, Ceylon: Banishment and Belonging

Ronit Ricci, Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The small, Indian Ocean island known as Sarandib, Lanka, and Ceylon has figured as an important site of banishment in different periods and...

CSAS Lecture Series | Summer in South Asia Fellowship Symposium

Ten undergraduate students were selected to be 2017 Summer in South Asia Fellows. Fellows designed, implemented, and enacted their proposals...

CSAS Lecture Series | ‘Marriage’, ‘Trafficking’ and the Transnational Family: Moral and Legal Regulation of Nineteenth Century Women’s Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean

Farhana Ibrahim, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology

This paper examines the trans-oceanic migration of women between the Bombay Presidency, Persian Gulf and East Africa during the course of...

CSAS Lecture Series | Inordinate Knowledge: Intimacy and Publicity in a Slum in Delhi

Veena Das, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University

This paper starts with a local incident of the abduction of a young girl, her bodily mutation, and her eventual return to her parents. I...

CSAS Lecture Series | Film Screening and discussion of Khoon diy Baarav (Blood Leaves its Trail)

Iffat Fatima, Filmmaker

The film Khoon Diy Baarav enters the vexed political scenario in Kashmir through the lives of families of the victims of enforced...

ISP Lecture. The Eager Fundamentalist: Muslim Mimicry in the Caribbean

Aliyah Khan, assistant professor of English, U-M

This talk explores the application of the figure of the postcolonial “mimic man,” as conceived by V.S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, Homi...

ISP Lecture. Eating the Audience’s Brain: Persianate Sociability in 18th-Century Delhi’s Poetry Salons

Nathan Tabor, assistant professor of history, Western Michigan University

The grave of 18th-century Persian-language poet ʿAbd al-Qadir Bedil (d. 1720) hosted a posthumous literary salon from 1721 to roughly 1760....

CSAS Lecture Series | Self and the World in a Life Narrative: Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah's Aatish-i-Chinar

Chitralekha Zutshi, James Pinckney Harrison Professor of History, College of William and Mary

This talk examines the autobiography of Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, the Kashmiri political leader, from the perspective of life narrative as...

CSAS Lecture Series | “Minimum Government, Maximum Governance”: Modi’s Statue of Unity and the Sense of Scale

Kajri Jain, Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto

Kajri Jain is Associate Professor of Indian Visual Culture and Contemporary Art at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on images...

CSAS Lecture Series | India's Archaeological Heritage Since Independence: Challenges and Dilemmas

Nayanjot Lahiri, Ashoka University

India’s archaeological heritage has continued to to grow in many different ways since independence, even as the monuments and relics,...

CSAS Lecture Series | Atmospheric Citizenship: Distributions of Life in the Wake of Delhi’s Airpocalypse

Asher Ghertner, Department of Geography, Rutgers University

D. Asher Ghertner is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and director of the South Asian Studies Program at Rutgers...

CSAS Lecture Series | Reactive Viewing: Screens and Publics in 21st Century India

S.V. Srinivas, Azim Premji University

Film and television in India have engendered excessive responses from sections of the audience for well over half a century now. There are...

CSAS Lecture Series | Lucknow in Letters: Endeavors, Achievements, and Tragedies

Sanjay Muttoo & Saman Habib

"Lucknow in letters: endeavours, achievements, and tragedies" is a multilingual (Urdu, English and Hindi) reading of personal letters...

CSAS Lecture Series | The Rise of the Imperial Eunuchate under Emperor Aurangzeb, 1658-1707

Munis Faruqui, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

This talk examines the development of the imperial eunuchate during Emperor Aurangzeb's reign (1658-1707). Although the imperial eunuchate...

CSAS Lecture Series | Consumer Citizenship: The Social Life of Industrial Foods in India

Amita Baviskar

Amita Baviskar is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of...