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If you would like to attend via Zoom, registration is required. Once you've registered, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https:\/\/myumi.ch\/Mpp95\n\nOver the past four decades, the U.S. has become increasingly dependent on international priests to help run Catholic parishes, schools, hospitals, missions, and more. 90% of dioceses in the U.S. today rely on foreign born priests. Many of these priests are from India and they come on the R-1 temporary religious worker visa - a lesser researched visa category in South Asian diaspora studies that does not require a salary, only compensation. Thomas' research shows that 64%+ of missionary priests from India come from dominant caste backgrounds. 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To Ambedkar, the larger Indian society denied manuski to Dalits. The caste mechanism restricted Dalits claims to personhood as Dalit humanity itself was constituted as a state of injury and punishment. The consequences were particularly dangerous for Dalit women lacking even minimal security. As a result, Ambedkar and his associates focused on both\u2014external and internal\u2014changes to cultivate manuski. Ambedkar constituted a new Dalit woman through these inner resources and interrelated ideas of an intrinsically caring and civilized humanity. He along with his associates robustly worked on a multi-pronged strategy\u2014social, educational, political, legal, and religious, to regenerate Dalits and not merely reform them like in the case of elite touchable reformers.\n\nShailaja Paik is Charles Phelps Taft Distinguished Professor of History and affiliate faculty in women\u2019s, Gender, and sexuality studies, sociology, and Asian studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation \u201cgenius\u201d Fellow. Paik is also the founding executive director of the Institute for Just Futures. Her work analyzes the politics of caste, gender, class, and sexuality, by focusing on the ideas, actions, and lives of Dalits (\u201cUntouchables\u201d). She is the author of the prestigious awards-winning book *The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity* (Stanford University Press, 2022) and *Dalit Women's Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination* (Routledge, 2014). Paik is co-editing the *Cambridge Companion to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar* (forthcoming) and *Caste, Race, and Indigeneity in South Asia and Beyond* (Forthcoming Routledge). Her research is funded by the MacArthur Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Stanford Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Institute of Indian Studies, Yale University, Emory University, the Ford Foundation, and the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, among others. Paik has published several articles on a variety of themes, including kissing and nationalism, the politics of naming, Dalit and African American women\u2019s solidarity, Dalit women\u2019s education, and new Dalit womanhood in colonial India. Her scholarship and research interests are concerned with contributing to and furthering the dialogue in anti-race, anti-caste, and anti-patriarchy, human rights, anti-colonial struggles, transnational women\u2019s history, and women-of-color feminisms.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. 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Thiranagama will discuss how new forms of caste disparities, as well as caste formations, have become sedimented not in the \u201cpublic,\u201d the center of most contemporary work, but rather in the new kinds of private spaces and private lives that arose after Kerala\u2019s land reforms and communist transformation. Thiranagama suggests new ways to think about contemporary inequalities within historical economies of humiliation and subordination, as well discussing the dignity projects embarked upon by Kerala\u2019s Dalit communities.\n\nSharika Thiranagama is professor of anthropology at Stanford University. Her research explores violence, inequality, and intense political mobilization through a focus on intimacy, gender and generation. She has been the author of multiple works on Sri Lanka including *In My Mother\u2019s House: Civil War in Sri Lanka* (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). 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If you would like to attend via Zoom, registration is required. Once you've registered, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https:\/\/myumi.ch\/4xmz3\n \nThis talk offers a preview of Ganti\u2019s forthcoming book, *Thinking in English, Speaking in Hindi* (Duke 2027), centered on Bollywood and the dubbing industry based in Mumbai. Ganti illustrates the essential role played by translation in the political economy of media industries through an examination of screenwriting and dubbing practices in Mumbai. Investigating the translation practices, linguistic ideologies, and regimes of value structuring mainstream media production, she argues that translation is not merely a linguistic bridge but a constitutive and material force in media production. Foregrounding the symbiotic relationship between Hindi and English within Mumbai\u2019s media industries, Ganti demonstrates that translation operates beyond notions of linguistic purity or inherent hierarchy and is a dynamic and multimodal process of creating social, aesthetic, and economic value.\n\nTejaswini Ganti is professor of anthropology and core faculty in the Program in Culture & Media at New York University. A media anthropologist specializing in South Asia, her research and teaching interests include Indian cinema, media industries, production cultures, translation studies, visual culture, cultural policy, elites, political economy, and theories of development and globalization. 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