Lecture Series Archive, Fall 2005-Spring 2010
Each semester card below contains a link to the full semester schedule and individual speakers.
Spring 2010
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Spring 2010 Full Schedule
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Gudrun Bühnemann “Complex Configurations: Śiva, Avalokiteśvara and the Golden Window in Patan”
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Michael Thomas “Neoliberalism, Neofundamentalism and Educational Technology in Pakistan”
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Lalita du Perron “The Context and Song texts of North Indian Art Music”
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J. Mark Kenoyer “Stone Beads in Buddhist Art, Culture and Ritual: An Investigation of Technology and Trade during the Early Historic Period in South Asia”
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Jason Hopper “Who’s Being Political? Reflections on a Demonstration in Bhutan”
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Eli Franco “Arguments for Religious Authority in Buddhism and Hinduism”
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Farina Mir “The Punjabi Literary Formation: Language and Affect in a Vernacular Culture”
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Dr. Asok Kumar Ray “The Look East Policy and the North East India”
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Eleanor Newbigin “Funding India’s Secular Democracy: The Relationship Between Religious Law and Income Tax”
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Sultan-i-Rome “Swat: An Analysis of Political, Administrative, Socio-Political and Economic Developments”
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Roopa Singh “Precious and Slumdog Millionaire: Beyond the Urban and the Melodramatic, Integrating American Popular Culture”
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Broughton Coburn “Secrets of Shangri-la: The Ancient Caves of Mustang”
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Mario Gomez “Sri Lanka: A Crisis of Institutions and Constitutions”
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Alok Kanungo “Mapping Glass Production at Papanaidupet, Andhra Pradesh, India”
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Luca M. Olivieri “The Archaeology of Early Historic Swat: Activities and Challenges of the Italian Mission 2000-2010”
Fall 2009
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Fall 2009 Full Schedule
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Deepika Bahri “What Happened to Race in South Asia? The Curious Case of Salman Rushdie”
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Cynthia Packert “From the Cradle to the Forest: Swings, Celebration, and Krishna”
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Aparna Dharwadker “Representing India’s Pasts: Time, Culture, and the Problems of Performance Historiography”
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Sangeeta Desai “Living the Text in South India”
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Flavia Agnes “From Shahbano to Kausar Bano – Contextualizing the ‘Muslim Woman’ within a Communalized Polity”
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Preeti Chopra “The Native Intermediary and the Engineering of Colonial Bombay”
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Nicolas Magriel “Musical Osmosis: Growing into Music in North India”
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Joyce Flueckiger “An Aesthetics of Excess: Gangamma Jatara in Tirupati”
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Eswaran Sridharan “Coalition Politics in the 2009 Indian Election”
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Robert Linrothe “Anxious Fascination: Yogis in Mughal, Company, and Raj-Period Paintings and Photographs”
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Bhavani Raman “The Duplicity of Paper and the Problem of Attestation in Early Colonial Madras”
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Paul Craddock “Perceptions and Reality: The Fall and Rise of the Indian Metals Industry Through Three Millennia”
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Aminur Rahim “The Political Economy of Policy Failure in the Post-Independence States”
Spring 2009
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Spring 2009 Full Schedule
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Lalita du Perron “The Context and Song texts of North Indian Art Music”
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J. Mark Kenoyer “Textile Traditions of the Indus Valley and Ancient South Asia”
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Pravina Shukla “The Grace of Four Moons: Bodily Adornment in India Today”
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Henry Glassie “Material Spirits: Traditional Art in Contemporary Bangladesh”
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John McLeod “The Parsi and the Queen: A Study in Indian Microhistory”
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Justice Christopher Weeramantry “Equality and Freedom in the Culture of the Developing World”
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Jayashree Watal “The Trips Agreement and Access to Medicines”
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Simona Sawhney “The Sanskrit Text in the Modern World: A Paradigmatic Case?”
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J. Mark Kenoyer “Silks of South Asia”
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Christine Garlough “The Risks of Acknowledgment: Grassroots Feminist Performance in South Asia and the Diaspora”
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Imran Aslam “Pakistan in Transition: The Role of the Media and its potential”
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Mayank Vahia “Origin and Growth of Astronomy in India”
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Susan Seizer “Women with Swords, Women with Guns: Fierce Funny Women in South India and the U.S.”
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Abigail McGowan “Convict Carpets: Jails and the Revival of Historic Carpet Design in Colonial India”
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Phyllis Granoff “Telling Tales: Jains and Śaivaites and their Stories in Medieval South India”
Fall 2008
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Fall 2008 Full Schedule
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Shubha Ghosh “Patently Modern: The Evolving Debates Over Intellectual Property Law in India”
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Ejaz Haider “Living in a Tough Neighborhood: Pakistan’s War among the People”
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Jennifer Brick “Customary Organizations and the Foundations of State Building in Afghanistan: The Role of Maliks, Mullahs, and Jirgas in Local Governance”
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Adheesh Sathaye “Museological Mahabharata: Visualizing the Vedic Past in the Epic Legends of Visvamitra”
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Akinori Uesugi “Recent Excavations at Kanmer: A new look at the Harappan Settlements in Kutch, India”
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Dr. Tamara I. Sears “Meditating Minds and Bodies in Space: Making Room for Ritual in Early Medieval Monasteries”
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Suryasikha Pathak “Sites of Conflict: The Politics of Identity and Insurgency in Post-colonial Northeast”
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Dennis McGilvray “The Sufi Scene in Sri Lanka”
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Munis Faruqui “Uncovering the Great Secret: Dara Shikuh, Hinduism and Politics in Mughal India”
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Swethaa Ballakrishnen “Hari and Kumar go to HLS: The South Asian Graduate Experience at Harvard Law School”
Spring 2008
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Spring 2008 Full Schedule
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Vikram Raghavan “Evolution of Communications Policy and Regulation in India”
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Tulasi Srinivas “The Body, Sex, and the Democratization of Transparency: Rethinking Religion and Globalization through the Sathya Sai Movement”
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Donald R. Davis, Jr. “Law as the Theology of Ordinary Life: Lessons from Hindu Law”
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Prakash Raj “Peace Process in Nepal and Elections for Constituent Assembly”
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Akbar Zaidi “The Future of Democracy in Pakistan”
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Matthew Wolfgram “Encompassing the Biomedical Body: Translation, Temporality, and the Universalization of the Plural Bodies of Ayurveda”
Fall 2007
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Fall 2007 Full Schedule
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Kirin Narayan “Beyond the Main Road: Women’s Sung Mytholog from Kangra, Northwest India”
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Leela Prasad “Finding Harmony: Ethics through Performance and Story”
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Jeffery Snodgrass “Shamans, Herbalists, and State Discourses of Indigenous Development in North India: Theory and Method in the Anthropology of Environmentality”
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Satish Kumar “Earth I Love”
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Jonathan Mark Kenoyer “Bead Technology of the Indus Tradition: New Discoveries of Stone, Faience, and Glass Bead Making in Pakistan and India”
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Dr. Yangbum Gyal “History of Tibetan Medicine: Past and Present”
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Arafaat A. Valiani “Maneuvers of Virtue: Encounters with Militia Training and Violence in a Shakha of the Hindu Nationalist Movement in Gujarat”
Spring 2007
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Spring 2007 Full Schedule
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Sumudu Atapattu “The Changing Horizon of Human Rights in Sri Lanka: The Ethnic Conflict, the Role of the Supreme Court, and the Influence of International Law”
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Robert Frykenberg “Hindutva as a Political Religion: An Historical Perspective”
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Pramit Pal Chaudhuri “After the Deal: How Far Can the Indo-US Strategic Partnership Go After the Civilian Nuclear Deal?”
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Christoph Emmrich “Is He in Heaven or in Hell? The Elusive Husband in the Newar Mythology of Marriage”
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Venkat Rao “Conflict of the Archives and Counter-Signing Memories: Towards a Critical Humanities”
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Anisur Rahman “Indian Literature(s) in English Translation and the Discourse of Resistance and Representation”
Fall 2006
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Fall 2006 Full Schedule
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Jonathan Mark Kenoyer “Measuring the Harappan World: Insights into the Indus Order and Cosmology”
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Indira Rajaraman “Fiscal Strains in the Indian Federation”
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Bani Singh “The Khalsa Heritage Museum, India: A Work in Progress”
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Monica L. Smith “Urban Traditions of the Early Historic Period: Excavations at the Ancient City of Sisupalgarh, India”
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David Gordon White “Tales of Sinister Yogis”
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Elizabeth Mary Rohlman “Geographical Imagination and Communal Identity in the Sarasvati Purana”
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Syed Akbar Hyder “Turning Nets into Nests: Geography, History, and the Last Mughal Poet”
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Linda Iltis “Seeing the Dance that can’t be seen: Masked Gods and Everyday Esoteric Meanings in Newar Religion”
For the semesters listed below, we have only the speaker schedules.