September 18, 2008
Patently Modern – The Evolving Debates Over Intellectual Property Law in India
Shubha Ghosh (Professor, Law, and Associate Director, INSITE, Business School, UW-Madison)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
September 22, 2008
Living in a Tough Neighborhood: Pakistan’s War among the People
Ejaz Haider (Editor and Independent Lecturer)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
September 25, 2008
Customary Organizations and the Foundations of State Building in Afghanistan: The Role of Maliks, Mullahs, and Jirgas in Local Governance
Jennifer Brick (Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, UW-Madison)
Time: 4-5:15 PM
Location: 336 Ingraham Hall
October 2, 2008
Museological Mahabharata: Visualizing the Vedic Past in the Epic Legends of Visvamitra
Adheesh Sathaye (Assistant Professor, Asian Studies, University of British Columbia)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
October 16, 2008
Recent Excavations at Kanmer: A New Look at the Harappan Settlements in Kutch, India
Akinori Uesugi (Researcher, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
October 23, 2008
Meditating Minds and Bodies in Space: Making Room for Ritual in Early Medieval Monasteries
Dr. Tamara I. Sears (J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
November 6, 2008
Sites of Conflict: The Politics of Identity and Insurgency in Post-Colonial Northeast
Suryasikha Pathak (SUNY Oswego and Assam University, India)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
November 13, 2008
The Sufi Scene in Sri Lanka
Dennis McGilvray (Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Colorado-Boulder)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
November 20, 2008
Uncovering the Great Secret: Dara Shikuh, Hinduism, and Politics in Mughal India
Munis Faruqui (Assistant Professor, South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
December 4, 2008
Hari and Kumar Go to HLS: The South Asian Graduate Experience at Harvard Law School
Swethaa Ballakrishnen (Research Fellow, Harvard Law School Visiting Researcher, UW-Madison)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall