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Indigenous Languages: From Endangerment to Revitalization and Resilience
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2019 as the Year of Indigenous Languages, and the area studies centers at the...
CSAS Lecture Series | A Vigil Wasted? Notes on the Ruin-Sublime in Afghanistan
Mrinalini Chakravorty, Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia
As abandoned remnants of human activity, ruins evoke concerns about the durability of the past, a setting, and of human perception and...
FLAS Fellowship Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
CSAS Kavita S. Datla Memorial Lecture | Dark Genealogies: Ambedkar's Struggles with History
Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Indian Politics and Intellectual History, Columbia University
I have been reading Ambedkar closely over the last few years, but intermittently. This will give me a chance to focus on a single question...
FLAS Fellowship Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
FLAS Fellowship Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
FLAS Fellowship Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
CSAS Lecture Series | “We Were Always Buddhist:" Caste Emancipation and Sexual Politics in South India
Lucinda Ramberg, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
I am a medical and sociocultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of several fields including...
FLAS Fellowship Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
CSAS Lecture Series | Digital Tamil Cinema: Tendencies, Trends, and Possibilities
Swarnavel Eswaran, Associate Professor, English and Media Information, Michigan State University
Dr. Swarnavel Eswaran is an associate professor in the English and MI (Media and Information) Departments at Michigan State University. He...
CSAS Lecture Series | Understanding the New Credibility Regimes of Development: The Politics of Sanitary Pads as a Pro-Poor Technology in India
Shobita Parthasarathy, Professor of Public Policy, U-M
Technology has long played a central role in efforts to alleviate global poverty, with international NGOs and developed world governments...
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
Subir Sinha studied History at the University of Delhi (BA) and Political Science at Northwestern University (MS, PhD), and has taught at...
Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia 2019
Keynote by Indrani Chatterjee, Professor — PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
For complete details and the conference schedule, please see the conference website:...
CSAS Lecture Series | Practicing Vulnerability -- Men's Rights Activists, Embodiment and Appropriation
Srimati Basu, Professor, Gender and Women's Studies; Anthropology, University of Kentucky
Srimati Basu is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Anthropology, and a member of the Committee on Social Theory and the Asia...
CSAS Lecture Series | Film’s Mise-en-Scène as Labor’s Social Space
Priya Jaikumar, Associate Professor, Division of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
Cinema’s heterogeneous artifactual status—as a regulated and profit-making commodity, technological apparatus, representational medium...
