Lecture Series Archive, Fall 2020-Spring 2025
Each semester card below contains a link to the full semester schedule and individual speakers.
Spring 2025
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Spring 2025 Full Schedule
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Swapnil Rai “Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema”
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Sayed Gul Kalash “Impact of Modernization on Kalash Traditions of Northern Pakistan”
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Arun Luthra “History of Blending Indian Musics with Jazz/Black American Music”
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Ulrike Niklas “Aiyanar and his Devotees – A Glimpse into a South-Indian Village Religion”
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Mou Banerjee “The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India”
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Natalie Gummer “Toward a Ritual Theory of Metaphor in Buddhist Literature”
Fall 2024
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Fall 2024 Full Schedule
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Ashish Avikunthak “Cinema of Prayoga: a critique of avant-garde and the experimental in Indian cinematic modernity”
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Mahesh Dattani “Create, Develop, Destroy”
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Sharada Srinivasan “Art and Technology of Mirrors in South Indian Antiquity: Insights from a metal mirror craft survival in Kerala”
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Indranil Acharya “Representation of Humiliation in Dalit Literature”
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Keya Ganguly “Revolutionary Utopianism and Aurobindo Ghose’s Political Philosophy”
Spring 2024
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Spring 2024 Full Schedule
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Taymour Soomro “The Author is a Fraud: What Con Artists can Teach us about Writing”
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Sahana Ghosh “A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands”
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Afsar Mohammad “Rethinking Muslim Past: 1948 Police Action and the Case of Hyderabad”
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Vaishali Raval “Unveiling the Tapestry: Psychological Research Exploring South Asian American Identities, Interpersonal Relationships, and Health”
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Anya Golovkova “The Goddess’s Forgotten Consort: Desire in Early Śrīvidyā Ritual”
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Darshana Mini “Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India”
Fall 2023
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Fall 2023 Full Schedule
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Aditya Balasubramanian “Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India”
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Jorge Osorio and Calyn Ostrowski “UW–Madison’s GHI One Health Center in India”
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Jay Sehgal “Participatory Rural Research in aid of Sustainable Development in India”
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Constance Kassor “Why Can’t Mādhyamikas Finish What They Started?”
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Purnaprajna Bangere “Universalism in Music and the Politics of Sound”
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Miroj Shakya “Creating the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon in the 21st Century”
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Vishala Parmasad “Diabetogenic Diets and Culture in a Diasporic Indian Community: Depathologizing Lifestyles in Debe, Trinidad”
Spring 2023
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Spring 2023 Full Schedule
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Jamal Jones “The Auspices of Aesthetics: Magic, Beauty, and Ethics in Early Kāvya”
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prabhdeep singh kehal “Decolonial Options, Oral History, and Refusing Research with Queer and Trans Sikhs”
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Mrudul Nile “The Legitimisation of Consent in Panchayats—A Case Study of Maharashtra”
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Siddharth Singh “Decoding the Experiences of the Indian Judiciary with Sustainable Development”
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Chandra Mallampalli “Dalit Christians and Indian Pentecostals: De-centering the Ideal Citizen Subject”
Fall 2022
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Fall 2022 Full Schedule
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Bharat Venkat “At the Limits of Cure”
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Democracy and Social Movements in Sri Lanka
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Jason Miklian and Scott Carney “The Spirit of Resilience: The Great Bhola Cyclone, a Genocide and How the Liberation War for Bangladesh Saved Humanity”
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TM Krishna “Crises of Aesthetics in Karnatic Music”
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Tarun Jain “Reshaping Adolescents’ Gender Attitudes”
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Mou Banerjee “Doing Nonviolence: An Experiment in Student-led Learning and Research Initiatives”
Spring 2022
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Spring 2022 Full Schedule
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Julia Stephens “The Crafty Widow: Mapping Gendered Mobilities Across InterAsian Geographies”
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Avishek Ray “On the Roma’s Indian Origin: Genealogical Fantasy Reexamined”
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Julia A.B. Hegewald “Superiority, Dependence, and Continuity: The Art and Architecture of the Jaina Community in Karnataka”
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Sheetal Chhabria “Caste as Poverty: Racialization and Capitalism in South Asia’s Long Past”
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Karuna Mantena “Gandhi’s Critique of Violence”
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Judy Frater “Coming Together: Culturally Inspired Creation”
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Nalika Gajaweera “Transforming the American Sangha: Understanding the Dynamics of Institutional Whiteness in North American Insight”
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Prateek “Ibsen in the Bazaar: A Study of the Norwegian Playwright in British India”
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Kareem James Abu-Zeid “Expansive Translations: Approaches to Buddhist and Sufi Texts”
Fall 2021
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Fall 2021 Full Schedule
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Priya Mukherjee “Gendered Impacts of the Pandemic: Evidence from Vulnerable Households in Bangladesh”
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J. Devika “Frenemies with Feminism? Hindutva Women in Kerala”
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Arun Luthra “Konnakol Residency Performance and Lecture”
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Smita Narula “Rural Resistance and Renewal in India”
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Durba Ghosh “Lord Curzon, heritage preservation, and the making of the Victoria Memorial”
Spring 2021
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Spring 2021 Full Schedule
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Ravi Mariwala “Sustainable Water in India: Challenges on the Ground”
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Yashica Dutt “Indian Matchmaking, Caste, and the South Asian Diaspora”
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Lomarsh Roopnarine “Indo-Caribbean Migration, Cultural Continuity, Change and Identity Formation”
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Tania Saeed “Islamophobia and the South Asian Community in Britain: Locating the Student Suspect”
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Jonathan Durr “Cataloging and South Asian Language Resources: Practice and Possibilities”
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Michael Silvestri “Spies, Sailors and Revolutionaries: Bengali Revolutionary Networks and British Imperial Intelligence between the World Wars”
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Erum Haider “Electricity, Citizenship and the Politics of Privatization in South Asia”
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Presence, Prescience, and Re-Presentation in Photographic Afterlives
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Namita Wahi “The Right to Property and Economic Development: How Property Saved Democracy in India”
Fall 2020
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Fall 2020 Full Schedule
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Tracy Pintchman “The Hindu Goddess Comes to Michigan: Breaking Boundaries, Making Home”
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Indo-Chinese Border Panel Discussion”High Stakes on the Indo-Chinese Border: Implications for the region, the United States, and the world”
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Public Health Panel Discussion “COVID-19, Climate Change, and Public Health in India and South Asia”
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Panel Discussion: Caste, Indigeneity, Region, and Settler/Colonialism in Modi’s India
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Anna Schultz “Bene Israel Kirtan as Sonic Translation, 1880-1955”
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Ramya Ramanath “A Place to Call Home”
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Vasugi Kailasam “The Sri Lankan Tamil Refugee Novel in Contemporary Tamil Writing”