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International Institute Information Fair and Networking Reception

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CSAS Lecture Series | Widows under Hindu Law: an Overview

David Brick, Assistant Professor of Sanskrit Literature, University of Michigan

This talk will present a broad history of the Hindu widow, as she is treated within works of the voluminous, two-millennia-long tradition of...

CSAS Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture | Early Readers and Early Readings of the Mahābhārata

Christopher Minkowski, Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford

The Sanskrit Mahābhārata did not receive a commentary until the eleventh century. Well before then, however, it had become a central...

CSAS Summer in South Asia Fellowship Symposium

Ten undergraduate students were selected to be 2019 Summer in South Asia Fellows. Fellows designed, implemented, and enacted their proposals...

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

In a longer project called The Postcolonial Commons, I am interested in the emergence of fluid political subjectivities around questions of...

Dismantling Caseism & Racism: Symposium

Continuing the Unfinished Legacy of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

The Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies (A/PIA) Program & the Ambedkar Association of North America have co-organized a symposium at...

CSAS Lecture Series | World Literature, the Global South and Indian Ocean Worlds

Debjani Ganguly, Professor of English and Director of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, University of Virginia

World Literature has emerged as a vital field in twentieth-first century critical and comparative literary studies, one that reflects on the...

CSAS Lecture Series | The Indian State that Fails and Delivers

Devesh Kapur, Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies and Director of Asia Programs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Devesh Kapur is the Starr Foundation South Asia Studies Professor and Asia Programs Director at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced...

EIHS Lecture: The Pen and a Sea of Pearls: Decolonizing Contemporary Historical Storytelling

Samia Khatun, University of London

A racist assumption powerfully shapes many history books today: the idea that European knowledge traditions and Enlightenment sciences are...

CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance...

CSAS Lecture Series | Islam and the Lessons of Pakistan’s History

Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion, Princeton University, Department of Religion

How have Islamic doctrinal orientations, religious institutions, and governmental policies relating to Islam evolved since the establishment...

CSAS 10th UM-Pakistan Conference

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CSAS Lecture Series | In Defense of Collateral Evidence: Refugees and Post-Partition IDs in Delh

Tarangini Sriraman, Professor of Politics and History, Azim Premji University, India

The Partition of India and Pakistan, which brought in its wake a sea of displaced populations, meant it was not merely refugees and their...

CSAS Lecture Series | The Price of Acceptability: On South Asian Inclusion and Exclusion in the US

Vivek Bald, Comparative Media Studies, MIT

Bald will draw upon his past and ongoing historical research to trace out the ways that, for more than a century, South Asians have been...

CSAS Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Who was a Muslim? Religious Ideas and Muslim Identities in Mughal North India

Muzaffar Alam, Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

What was a Muslim’s religious identity? What were the factors that influenced and shaped the making of his identity? Immediate, pragmatic,...