II Career Event: Thinking about Think Tanks? International Policy and Research Opportunities
Liz Malinkin, U-M
Liz Malinkin discusses nearly 10 years working for the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C...
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...
The role of science and technology policy in developing countries
Dr. T. Ramasami, former secretary of science and technology for India
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow....
EVENT CANCELLED | CSAS Special Event | Jalsa: Indian Women and their Journeys from the Salon to the Studio
Vidya Shah, Singer and Musician
This event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.
II Career Event. Career Conversation with Kunizo Oka
Kunizo Oka, Director , Business Center, Continental Automotive Japan
Kunizo Oka is the head of the business center at Continental Automotive Corporation in Japan. He received his BA in sociology from Waseda...
CSAS Lecture Series | The Highway, Automobility and New Promises in 1960s Bombay Cinema
Ranjani Mazumdar, Professor of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
A fascination for color in the 1960s led to Bombay cinema’s mobilization of the hinterland as the site for a new future. With the...
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...
