2026-2027 CSAS Lecture Series | Cultivating a Global Radical Imagination at the Grassroots: Communist Women’s Mobilization in Mid-20th-c. Assam/Eastern Bengal
Elora Shehabuddin, University of California, Berkeley
Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom, registration is required. Once...
2026-2027 CSAS Lecture Series | Rummana Hussain's Feminist Cosmopolitics
Rattanamol Johal, University of Michigan
In her relatively brief career, the Indian artist Rummana Hussain (1952-1999) straddled painting, drawing, performance, video, and...
Nilima Sheikh: Picturing the Other
In conversation with Rattanamol Singh Johal
Join acclaimed visual artist Nilima Sheikh for a conversation with Rattanamol Singh Johal about her artistic practice and engagement with...
CSAS 2026 Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Minor Cosmopolitanisms: Islam, Urdu, and Secularism in Postcolonial India
Dr. Razak Khan; Senior Research Fellow in Global History, Department of History, Free University, Berlin
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2026-2027 CSAS Lecture Series | Beyond the Seas Blue
Asma Kazmi; Berkeley Center for New Media, University of California-Berkeley
In this lecture, Kazmi will discuss Beyond the Seas Blue alongside earlier projects that connect contemporary technologies to...
2026-2027 CSAS Lecture Series | Indians and Cowboys: Race, Caste, and Catholic Missionary Priests from India in Rural America
Sonja Thomas, Colby College
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2026-2027 CSAS Lecture Series | Annihilation of Caste: Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and the Making of a Radical Dalit Humanism
Shailaja Paik, University of Cincinnati
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2026-2027 CSAS Lecture Series | What is the Private Life of Caste in India? The caste economies of India's success story
Sharika Thiranagama, Stanford University
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2026-2027 CSAS Lecture Series | Thinking in English, Speaking in Hindi: Translation, Creativity, and Value in Bollywood and Beyond
Tejaswini Ganti, New York University
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CSAS Annual Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture 2027 | From the Ethic of Dying to the Ethic of Killing
Manu V. Devadevan, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi-Himachal Pradesh, INDIA
Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom, registration is required. Once...
