2025 Fall Lecture Series

Fall 2025 Schedule

Sep 11, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CT

Mark Kenoyer

Changing Perspectives on the Indus Civilization: Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Pakistan and India

206 Ingraham Hall

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Sep 18, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CT 

David DiValerio

The Three-Year, Three-Month Retreat in Globalized Tibetan Buddhism: Early Findings and Ongoing Questions

206 Ingraham Hall

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Sep 25, 2025, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Rahul Rastogi

206 Ingraham Hall

My Grandma the Idiot? : An Informance on Charting Ante-modern Epistemologies through North-Indian Oral Storytelling Traditions.

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Oct 2, 2025, 12 pm CT

Tariq Ali

Imagining and Producing the Pakistani Economy in East Bengal, 1940-1950

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Oct 9, 2025, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Todd Michelson-Ambelang

Decolonizing South Asian Collections via Collective Purchasing and Digitization Projects

206 Ingraham Hall

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Nov 6, 2025, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Adil Mawani

Devotion in Colonial Islam: Representations of Muhammad in Urdu Sira

206 Ingraham Hall

Nov 13, 2025, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Sneha Annavarapu

Licenses for Sale: on brokerage, bureaucracy, and driving in India

Nov 20, 2025, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Rikhil Bhavnani (with Saloni Bhogale and Amit Jadhav)

Musical Chairs: How Frequent Judge Transfers Shape Judicial Decision-Making in India

206 Ingraham Hall

Dec 4, 2025, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Shahana Munazir

Crafting ‘Behtar Zindagi:’ Rethinking aspiration and ethical labor of Muslim women in Urban India

206 Ingraham Hall