2016 Fall Lecture Series
Thursday, September 8, 2016
CSA Welcome Lunch
Time: Noon – 1 p.m.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Pakistan’s Foreign Policy in South Asia and the United States
Faisal Tirmizi (Consul General of Pakistan)
Time: Noon – 1 p.m.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Microgrids Partnership
Giri Venkataramanan (Professor, Computer and Mechanical Engineering, UW–Madison),
S. Shamsundar (Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIE-CREST), Lee Shaver (Graduate Student, Computer and Mechanical Engineering, UW–Madison)
Time: Noon – 1 p.m.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Nepali Migrant Women: Survival and Resistance in America
Shobha Hamal Gurung (Associate Professor of Sociology & Women’s and Gender Studies, Southern Utah University)
Time: Noon – 1 p.m.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Visions of Patañjali as a Nāga, Siddha and Sage
Gudrun Buhnemann (Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UW–Madison)
Time: Noon – 1 p.m.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Collection Highlights: A Sampling of South Asian Textile Traditions in the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection
Sherry Harlacher (Pleasant Rowland Endowed Director of Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, School of Human Ecology, UW–Madison)
Time: Noon – 1 p.m.
Location: 1235B Berge Classroom, Nancy Nichols Hall
Monday, October 24, 2016
Activist Theatre and Theatre Activism in India: A Gendered Reading
A. Padma Mangai (Professor, English Literature, Stella Maris College, Chennai)
Time: 4– 5:30 p.m.
Location: 6191 Helen C. White Hall
*This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of English
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Fragments in Time
Shahnaz Rouse (Professor and Chair, Sociology Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College)
Time: Noon – 1 p.m.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
Thursday, November 10, 2016
The Lessons Private Schools Teach: Using a Field Experiment to Understand the Effects of Private Schools on Political Behavior
Emmerich Davies (Assistant Professor, School of Education, Harvard University)
Time: Noon – 1 p.m.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
Thursday, November 17, 2016
The Tortured Life and Mysterious Death of Trial by Jury in India
James Jaffe (Professor Emeritus, Department of History, UW-Whitewater)
Time: Noon – 1 p.m.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Hindu Nationalism, History and Identity in India: Narrating a Hindu Past under the BJP
Lars Tore Flåten (Associate Professor, South Asia studies, University of Oslo)
Time: Noon – 1 p.m.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
Thursday, December 8, 2016
Demographic and epidemiological shifts, family structure, and elder care in India: How are Indian families navigating new terrain?
Subharati Ghosh (Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai)
Time: Noon – 1 p.m.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall