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!
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!
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: HELP Workshop
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...
Apr
30
2024
The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Fight for Justice and Democracy in Modern India
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by The Subcontinent Project
Dr. Alpa Shah, an anthropologist, BBC correspondent, and ethnographic at the London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science, will...
May
28
2024
Hip Hop Aspirations: Rap as Transcendence of Race, Class, and Religion in Gully Boy
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by South Asia Research Forum
Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy (2019) demonstrates the paradoxes that result from hip hop’s simultaneous negotiation of local, national, and global...
Nov
13
2024
“Life after Death: Ritual and Placemaking in Old Delhi.” A book talk given by Kalyani Menon (DePaul University)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Global Religion and Politics Research Group
Please join the Global Religion and Politics Research Group as they host Kalyani Devaki Menon, DePaul University. Kalyani Devaki Menon is...
Nov
18
2024
The Great Mughals Exhibition curated by Susan Stronge (Online event)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by South Asia Research Forum
Please join the South Asia Research Forum and the Department of Art History together with the American Council for Southern...
Feb
12
2025
A Sea of Scribes: Translation and the Creation of Trans-imperial archives in the Indian Ocean | Subah Dayal (New York University)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by South Asia Research Forum
This talk reconstructs the textual and material imprint of anonymous Persian-knowing scribes and clerks, who worked in the Dutch East...
Apr
15
2025
Inter-Lingual Theatre Circuits and Caste Contestations in the Bombay Deccan (1840s–1930s) Veena Naregal (Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by South Asia Research Forum
Abstract: The intertwined histories of Marathi and Kannada professional theatre (1840s–1930s) in the Deccan reveal theatre as a crucial space for...