September 15
CSA Film Series Allahabad’s Mela: The People and Their Great Fair
Time: noon-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
September 22
Sarpa Satra/Sarpa Sutra: The Mahabharata, Arun Kolatkar, and an Experimental Play
Gowri Ramnarayan (Deputy Editor, The Hindu)
Time: noon-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
September 29
Legal Consciousness in Medieval Indian Narratives
Donald R. Davis Jr. (Associate Professor of Languages & Cultures of Asia, UW–Madison)
Time: noon-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
October 6
Gifted: Merit and Caste in the making of Indian Technical Knowledge
Ajantha Subramanian (Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Studies, Harvard University; and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies, Duke University)
Time: noon-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
October 13
Lakhan-Jo-Daro, Sindh: New Excavations at an Urban Center of the Indus Civilization
Qasid Mallah (Professor of Archaeology, Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur)
Time: noon-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
October 27
Who Participates in Higher Education in India? Rethinking the Role of Affirmative ActionExcavations at the Harappan Cemetery at Farmana: New Insights on Relationship Between the Harappan and Local Cultures in the Ghaggar Plain, Haryana, India
Akinori Uesugi (Independent Scholar)
Time: noon-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
November 3
Toward an Aesthetic of Monastic Recruitment: The Monastery as an Avenue for Upward Mobility?
Jeffrey Samuels (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Western Kentucky University)
Time: noon-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
November 10
CSA Film Series Dadi and Her Family: A Rural Mother-In-Law in North India
Time: noon-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
November 17
The Role of Marine Shell in Ornament, Art, and Ritual of the Indus Civilization: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective
J. Mark Kenoyer (Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Director of Center for South Asia, UW-Madison)
Time: noon-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
December 1
Constructing States and Citizens: Partition as a Social Project
Shelley Feldman (President of American Institute of Bangladesh Studies and Director Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies & Professor, Development Sociology, Cornell University)
Time: noon-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
December 8
Censorship and Scholarship: The Indian Case of A.K. Ramanujan’s “300 Ramayanas”
Vinay Dharwadker (Professor, Languages and Cultures of Asia), Sandeep Kindo (Ph.D.student, Languages and Cultures of Asia), and John Stavrellis (Ph.D. student, Languages and Cultures of Asia)
Time: noon-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall