multi-day
Hindi-Urdu Language Table
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Are you learning Hindi-Urdu at Northwestern and want to practice your language skills? Would you like to meet other speakers/learners...
Past Events
multi-day
Hindi-Urdu Language Table
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Mondays 1/23, 1/30, 2/6, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/6. Annenberg G-31. Everyone is welcome, from beginners to native speakers!
multi-day
Hindi-Urdu Language Table
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Mondays 1/23, 1/30, 2/6, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/6. Annenberg G-31. Everyone is welcome, from beginners to native speakers!
Feb
28
2022
Gabriela Soto Laveaga - Hydraulic Erasures: Rivers, Irrigation and Experiment Stations in Northern Mexico and India
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Gabriela Soto Laveaga Title Hydraulic Erasures: Rivers, Irrigation and Experiment Stations in Northern Mexico and India Abstract In the mid 1960s seeds from an...
Mar
4
2022
GLOBAL LUNCHBOX | Race, Caste, and Colorism — A Conversation with Laura Brueck & Ivy Wilson
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/race-caste-colorism Please join us for the Global Lunchbox, a weekly conversation convened by the Weinberg College Center...
Apr
1
2022
2022 Nao Lecture | A Parallax View: The Racialization of Religion and the Religionization of Race in Caribbean Hosay — Aisha Khan
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Please note that this event, though originally scheduled to take place in-person, will take place on Zoom. Register for the Zoom...
Apr
7
2022
Screening of WRITING WITH FIRE (2021)
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Journalism’s urgency and power in the face of oppression are thrillingly conveyed in the eye-opening documentary WRITING WITH FIRE. In...
Apr
12
2022
Right that Dares to Speak its Name: The Challenging Life of Sexual Minorities in Society
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
A Zoom talk by Akkai Padmashali in conversation with Gayatri Reddy Akkai Padmashali is a transgender activist based in Bangalore, India,...
Apr
21
2022
Myers Foundations Lecture: Melissa Kerin in conversation with Catherine Becker, "Coming and Going: Marble Sculpture in the Creation and Memorialization of Lives in the Western Himalaya and the US"
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
In her presentation, Melissa Kerin, Associate Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University, will examine how her specific...
Apr
25
2022
Shobita Parthasarathy - "The Politics of Inclusive Innovation in International Development: Menstrual Hygiene Management and Sanitary Pads in India"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Shobita Parthasarathy, University of Michigan Title "The Politics of Inclusive Innovation in International Development: Menstrual Hygiene Management and Sanitary Pads in India" Abstract International...
Apr
28
2022
Misalliance: Race, Caste, and the Rhetoric of Afro-Asian Comparison
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Tanya Agathocleous is Professor of English at Hunter College, at the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research interests...
May
4
2022
Hindi-Urdu Workshop: Space, Speech and Subjectivity in Jan Sahib's Jashn-e-Benazir by Razak Khan
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by South Asia Research Forum
Please join the South Asia Research Forum for this Hindi-Urdu Workshop. The speaker will be remote with an in-person audience. This...
May
5
2022
Is Caste a Useful Category of Global Analysis?
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Ania Loomba is the Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She researches and teaches early modern...
May
12
2022
An Uneasy Embrace: Africans, Indians, and the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam (Shobana Shankar)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
This is a hybrid event. No registration needed to attend in person. Location: Forum Room (2nd Floor), University Library, Evanston Campus Register...
May
26
2022
CANCELLED “Don't Let the Wind Touch it:” A Dalit Pneumatics of Caste in Rural Rajasthan
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by South Asia Research Forum
Please join the South Asia Research Forum for this event. About the speaker: Andrew McDowell is an assistant professor in the Department...
Nov
17
2022
The Workers Cup: Film Screening & Talk Back with Director Adam Sobel
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Office of the Provost
Professors Laura Brueck and Ivy Wilson, co-directors of the Race, Class, and Colorism Project, host a screening of The Workers...
Feb
3
2023
In Ambedkar’s Wake: Frequencies, Fictions and Futures of Anti-Caste
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by RCCP
"How are collective anti-caste futures translated into intimate thresholds of imagination and embodiment, epistemology and praxis?" This, alongside other questions,...
Feb
4
2023
“Translating Caste”
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
We invite you to the inaugural session of Translators' Adda, a public humanities initiative on translating South Asian literatures. Our...
Feb
16
2023
The GECC Presents: A Talk by Dr. Ashley Cohen (USC)
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by English Department
Dr. Ashley Cohen, associate professor of English at USC, will give a talk titled "The Global Indies and Asian Empires...
Feb
21
2023
"The One from which we ought to learn: What South Asian Poets Imagined Latin American Literature Could Do": Roanne Kantor (Stanford) Virtual on Zoom
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM, sponsored by South Asia Research Forum
Please join the South Asia Research Forum and the Workshop in Transnational Culture History (WITCH) as they host a talk...
Feb
23
2023
"Enemy Files: Bollywood's Discovery of India": Rini Mehta (University of Illinois)
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM, sponsored by South Asia Research Forum
Please join the South Asia Resesarch Forum for this talk given by Rini Mehta (University of Illinois) Rini Bhattacharya Mehta is...
Apr
11
2023
MONER MANUSH: A Conversation with Ananya Chatterjea & Thomas F. DeFrantz
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by SLIPPAGE: Performance | Culture | Technology
MONER MANUSH (People of Heart): Synchronicities and Shared Vibration: A Conversation with Ananya Chatterjea and Thomas F. DeFrantz Join us for...
Apr
13
2023
Applied Microeconomics Lunch Seminar
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: Applied Microeconomics Lunch
Speaker: Ryu Matsuura Title: Public Services Delivery to Muslim Villages by BJP Government Abstract: We have seen the rapid rise of populism...
Apr
17
2023
"The Wind Has Gotten to Him:" A Dalit Pneumatics of Caste in Rural Rajasthan
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by South Asia Research Forum
Please join the South Asia Research Forum for this talk by Andrew McDowell (Tulane University) This presentation engages how Dalit (members...
Apr
28
2023
Economic History Lunch Seminar
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Economics: Economic History Lunch Seminar
Lakshmi Iyer (University of Notre Dame) Alex Lehner (UChicago) Lakshmi Iyer title: No Taxation Without Representation? Evidence from Colonial India Alex Lehner Title:...
May
11
2023
“What’s My Fucking Name?”: Diasporic Translation in the Rap Performances of Riz Ahmed
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by South Asia Research Forum
Please join the South Asia Research Forum for this in-person talk by Sara Grewal, Associate Professor of English (MacEwan University)...
May
11
2023
Edmund Perry Lecture "We are not here to know: Ways of Approaching Buddhist Art" (hybrid)
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Presented by Justin McDaniel (Professor of Southeast Asian and Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania) Professor McDaniel's research foci include...
Oct
5
2023
Department of Sociology Colloquium: Nicholas Wilson, Stony Brook University
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department
Professor Nicholas Wilson presents: "Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India” Hybrid Please contact the Department of Sociology for...
Oct
6
2023
Canons, Colleges, and Consecrations: Structures of Coherence and Measuring Impact in Contemporary Historical Sociology
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the Comparative Historical Social Sciences as they host Nick Wilson, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University. If...
Nov
7
2023
A Colloquium featuring Neeti Nair (University of Virginia) and J. Barton Scott (University of Toronto)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Global Religion and Politics Research Group
Please join the Global Religion and Politics Research Group, the South Asia Research forum and the Department of Asian Languages...
Nov
10
2023
“How I Wrote" Hybrid Sovereignty
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the International Relations Speaker Series and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities as they host Professor Swati...
Jan
31
2024
"The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge": A Book Talk by Joshua Ehrlich (University of Macau)
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM, sponsored by South Asia Research Forum
Please join the South Asia Research Forum for this online talk by Joshua Ehrlich, Assistant Professor of History at the...
Feb
28
2024
Intertextual Voices and the Shi’i Elegy: Gender, Language, and Desire in Early Modern Hindi-Urdu: A talk given by Peter Knapczyk (University of Colorado)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by South Asia Research Forum
Please join the South Asia Research Forum for this online talk by Peter Knapczyk (Wake Forest University), Assistant Professor, Hindi-Urdu...
Mar
26
2024
Faithful to the Salt: Mayalee Dancing Girl vs. the East India Company: A talk by Katherine Schofield (King's College, London)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by South Asia Research Forum
Please join the South Asia Research Forum for a talk given by Katherine Schofield, Department of Music (King's College, London). ...
Mar
28
2024
“Fixing Urban Property: Dispossession and the Right to the City in Twentieth-Century Hyderabad”
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by South Asia Research Forum
Please join the South Asia Research Forum for a talk given by Eric Beverley (SUNY Stony Brook) Indian cities are being...
Apr
8
2024
Myers Symposium Keynote: Tim Barringer (Yale University), "Art/Music/Empire/War: London and India 1910-14"
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Art History
Part of the Myers Symposium, "Objects, Histories, Archives: The Late Mughal Empire and Britain’s Company-Raj 1707-1911.” Public presentation and Q&A: 5-6:30...
Apr
17
2024
"Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" Sudev Sheth (University of Pennsylvania)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by South Asia Research Forum
In this talk, Sudev Sheth will trace how a family of diamond dealers deployed wealth to play off political leaders...