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February 2021
Spring Lecture Series: Ravi Mariwala (Founder and CEO of Smaart Water), “Sustainable Water in India: Challenges on the Ground”
Typical water sources in Rural India India receives abundant water through a fairly predictable and periodic monsoon every year. However, the ground realities are quite different. Majority of the households do not have tap water…
Find out more »Spring Lecture Series: Maestro Chitravina N Ravikiran, “Language and Literature in Carnatic (South Indian) Classical Music”
Carnatic music is one of India’s two classical systems of music and is predominantly practiced in South India and by people of South Indian origin in many parts of the world. One of its most…
Find out more »Spring Lecture Series: Yashica Dutt, “Indian Matchmaking, Caste, and the South Asian Diaspora”
Description and details forthcoming.
Find out more »March 2021
Spring Lecture Series: Lomarsh Roopnarine, “Indo-Caribbean Migration, Cultural Continuity, Change and Identity Formation”
Between 1838 and 1920 western colonial governments transported about 500,000 indentured Asians from India to the Caribbean. The arrival of these indentured laborers was in response to a labor shortage emerging from the gradual withdrawal…
Find out more »Spring Lecture Series: Tania Saeed, “Islamophobia and the South Asian Community in Britain”
Dr. Tania Saeed is Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). She is trained as a qualitative researcher with a focus on Comparative and…
Find out more »Spring Lecture Series: Jonathan Durr
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Find out more »Spring Lecture Series: Michael Silvestri, “Spies, Sailors and Revolutionaries: Bengali Revolutionary Networks and British Imperial Intelligence between the World Wars”
After an attempt to assassinate Sir John Anderson, British Governor of Bengal, the would be assassin is carried away, 1934. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) After the 1905 Partition of Bengal, nationalist…
Find out more »April 2021
Spring Lecture Series: Erum Haider
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Find out more »Spring Lecture Series: Panel Presentation, “Presence, Prescience, and Re-Presentation in Photographic Afterlives”
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Find out more »Spring Lecture Series: Namita Wahi, “The Right to Property and Economic Development: How Property Saved Democracy in India”
The Fundamental Right to Property enjoys the unique distinction of not only being the second most contentious provision in the drafting of the Indian Constitution at the time of its adoption in 1950, but also…
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