2019 Spring Lecture Series

Thursday, January 31, 2019 (rescheduled for February 21)
Spring Welcome Lunch
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

Thursday, February 7, 2019
Ishq Vishq, Pyaar Vyaar: Reading with a loving eye in the new India
Ulka Anjaria (Associate Professor, English, Brandeis University)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

Thursday, February 14, 2019
Silk, School, and Special Economic Zones: Children’s learning and earning trajectories in Kanchipuram, India
Miriam Thangaraj (Lecturer, Educational Policy, UW-Madison)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

Tuesday, February 19, 2019
India in the Age of the Indo-Pacific: New Alliances, New Challenges
Anand Yang (Professor, History, University of Washington)
Time: 12-1:30 PM
Location: 336 Ingraham Hall

Thursday, February 28, 2019
Engineering the Sacred Cow: Cow Protection and Cow Production since the Nineteenth Century
Cassie Adcock (Associate Professor, History, Washington University-St. Louis)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

Thursday, March 7, 2019 – POSTPONED UNTIL NOVEMBER 2019
Education: Its Status in India
Shivaji Sargar (Professor, English, University of Mumbai)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

Thursday, March 14, 2019
Abortion in South Asia, 1860-1947: A medico-legal history
Mitra Sharafi (Professor, Law, UW-Madison)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

Thursday, March 28, 2019
Basic Income and the Future of Social Welfare in India
Stephen Young (Associate Professor, Geography and International Studies, UW-Madison)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

Thursday, April 4, 2019
Reading India’s Rise: Genre, Neoliberalism, and Narrative Nonfiction
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan (Assistant Professor, English, University of Arizona)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

Thursday, April 18, 2019
Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia
Jennifer Dubrow (Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

Thursday, April 25, 2019
The Manuscriptistan Project: Aesthetics in India’s Archives
Anthony Cerulli (Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UW-Madison)
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall

Thursday, May 2, 2019
End of Semester Lunch
Time: 12-1 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall