Lecture Series Archive, Fall 2010-Spring 2015
Each semester card below contains a link to the full semester schedule and individual speakers.
Spring 2015
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Spring 2015 Full Schedule
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Asra Husain “The PPSG International Pain Policy Fellowship: Successes in South and Southeast Asia”
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Taylor Sherman “Reassessing Secularism and Muslim Belonging in Early Postcolonial India”
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Kimberley Thomas “Of dirges and deluges: Instrument-effects of development in Bangladesh”
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K. Frances Lieder “‘Performing Nirbhaya’: Representations of Violence Against Women Since December 2012”
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Athar Waheed “Victims of Terrorism in Pakistan: Challenge and Response”
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Simanti Lahiri “Suicide Protest in South Asia”
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Projit Mukharji “Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda and Small Technologies, 1860-1930”
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Jonathan Balls “Off-grid Solar Power in Uttar Pradesh, India: improvisation and ‘jugaad’ practices unsettling a new bottom of the pyramid market”
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Devaleena Das “Romanticism, Desire or Fetish Fashion: ‘Sindoor Feminism’ as a way to emancipation”
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Abdul Rehman Khan “Parental Choice of Education and Schooling in Pakistan”
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Meena Khandelwal “Sacred Cows and New Environmental Realities in Rajasthan, India: Vegans, Vegetarians, and Beef-Eaters”
Fall 2014
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Fall 2014 Full Schedule
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Zahir Sajad Janmohamed “The Longview of a Tragedy: Examining the Aftereffects of the 2002 Gujarat Riots”
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Rikhil Bhavnani “Forging a Non-Violent Mass Movement: Economic Shocks and Organizational Innovations in India’s Struggle for Democracy”
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Jonathan M. Kenoyer “The Indus Civilization and Magan: Recent Research on Intra-regional exchange between the Indus Valley and the Arabian Peninsula”
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Soufia Siddiqi “Charting the Paradox of a Miscourse: how a monomial ethic for state-driven citizenship education pluralizes civic consciousness among young Pakistanis in Lahore”
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Asha Sen “Postcolonial Yearning in Pico Iyer’s Abandon”
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Elaine Fisher “Public Theology, Private Devotion: the Making of the Smārta-Śaiva Tradition in South India”
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Vijay Limaye “Breathing Uneasy: India’s Air Pollution Challenge”
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KumKum Sangari “Imaginary Dystopias, Sex Selection, and the State”
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Binod Agrawal “Socialist Transformations of Communication under Market Economy: A Case of India”
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Michael Baltutis “Sacrificing (to) Bhairav: the apotheosis, death, and resurrection of a local Nepalese king”
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Luke Whitmore “Natural Disaster in the Land of the Gods: Preliminary Observations on Post-June 2013 Uttarakhand”
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Mark Sidel “India’s policy experiment with mandating corporate giving and corporate social responsibility and its implications for the NGO sector and philanthropy”
Spring 2014
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Spring 2014 Full Schedule
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Paul Robbins “Coffee, Frogs, and Workers: The Frontiers of Conservation in Southern India”
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Christopher Limburg “Geographies of Affect: Buddhist Practice and Mega-Development in the Himalaya”
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Ayelet Ben-Yishai “Emergency Fictions”
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Ann Grodzins-Gold “Ambiguous Ecologies in Jahazpur: Protected trees, degraded river”
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Connie Cordoba “Empowering Women through Dairy Training: UW partnership with the Gandhi Trust in UP”
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Nilika Mehrotra “Articulating Disability Identity and Rights in India”
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Swati Chattopadhyay “Of Small Spaces Forgotten”
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Joe Elder “Sixty Years of Asking Questions”
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Muhammad Asif “Identification of Gaps Between Reported and Tested Literacy Rates in a Selected District of Punjab, Pakistan”
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Irfan Omar “Hermeneutics of Inter-religious Engagement: Dara Shikuh’s ‘Islamic’ View of the Other”
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Teri Allendorf “Gender and Protected areas in Nepal and Myanmar: what are we missing?”
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Natalie Gummer “Pratibhāna Reconsidered: Eloquence and the Aesthetics of Power in Some Mahāyāna Sūtras”
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Binda Paranjape “Sun Temple of Konark: An Architectural Metaphor”
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Erica Bornstein “Global Philanthropy, FCRA, and the Regulation of Rights-based NGO-work in India”
Fall 2013
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Fall 2013 Full Schedule
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Maggie Ordon “Clothing, Culture, and Context in South Asia: Selections from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection”
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Special Exhibition “Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form”
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Sumudu Atapattu & Lalita du Perron “Bhopal Almost 30 Years On: Legal, Environmental, and Human Rights Aspects”
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Jaclyn Michael “Muslim Performance and Urdu Theatre in Delhi”
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Arafaat Valiani “Militant Publics in India: Physical Culture and Violence in the Making of a Modern Polity”
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Robert Schaefer “Practical Steps for Foreign Policy Careers: An Information Session for Students”
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Mark Sidel “Regulatory and Policy Constraints on NGOs in South Asia: New Developments in the Region”
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Andre Wink “Saints of the Indus: The Rise of Islam in South Asia’s Borderlands”
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Joan A. Raducha “Sacred Site of Nimogram, Dt. Swat, Pakistan”
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Manisha Shelat “Digital Life on the Fringe: Media Cultures in Small Town and Rural India”
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J. Barton Scott “Unsaintly Virtue: Why Arya Samajis Shouldn’t Write Hagiographies (But Do Anyway)”
Spring 2013
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Spring 2013 Full Schedule
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Sana Aiyar “Transnational Nationalism and the Politics of Diasporic Claim-making: Kenya’s Gandhi and Khadi Caps”
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Sylvia Vatuk “Symposium on The Delhi Gang Rape Case of December 2012”
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Adam Ziegfeld “Why Regional Parties? Elites & Party System Formation in India”
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Tejaswini Ganti “‘Producing ‘Bollywood’: The Social & Institutional Transformations of the Hindi Film Industry”
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Prakash Shah “The Dysfunctional Legal Effects of Secularization: South Asians & Muslim Law in England”
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Stephen Young “Opposition and Opportunism: Cultures of Enterprise Among North Indian Youth”
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Heidi Pauwels “From Gopi-teasing to Eve-teasing: What happens when Shah Rukh Khan is cast as Krishna”
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Joy Johnson “Brokering Nationalism & Historical Memory: The 2005 California Textbook Controversy over the History of Hinduism”
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Kanchan Chandra “Democracy in India and its Dysfunctions”
Fall 2012
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Fall 2012 Full Schedule
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M.P. Ram Mohan “Renewable Energy Development in India in the Context of Climate Change”
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J. Mark Kenoyer “A New Look at Textiles and Trade in South Asia during the Protohistoric and Early Historic Periods”
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Nisha Fernando “Sustainable Environments: Lessons from Sri Lankan Traditional Architecture”
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Ajithprasad Pottentavida “Excavations at Shikarpur: A Harappan Site in Gujarat”
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Christopher D. Kolenda “The Counterinsurgency Challenge: A Parable of Leadership and Decision-Making in Modern Conflict”
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David DiValerio “Tibetan ‘Madmen’ in the Marketplace”
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Esther Hyneman “Yes, everyone, there has been progress on women’s rights in Afghanistan. But what now?”
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Anil Verma “Tribals in Uttar Pradesh: Issues of Identity and Political Representation”
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Ahmad Shahid Rajput “Archaeological finds of al-Mansurah and their Significance in the Context of Islamic History in al-Hind”
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Adam Auerbach “Political Order an Infrastructural Development in India’s Urban Slums”
Spring 2012
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Spring 2012 Full Schedule
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Thomas L. Eggert “Sustainability and Consumption”
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Gudrun Buhnemann “The Buddha’s Return Journey to Lumbinī”
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Lalita du Perron “Bhopal 27 Years On”
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A. Aneesh “Mutations Of Citizenship: India and The World”
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Ahmad Shahid Rajput “Islamic Architecture in Pakistan”
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Rikhil Bhavnani “Corruption Among India’s Politicians: What Do Asset Disclosures Suggest?”
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Marc Galanter “What Happens In India When You Get Hurt?: Indian Tort Law”
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Stephen Young “Geographies of Youth Enterprise in India”
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Philip Lutgendorf “Chai Why? The Making Of The Indian ‘National Drink'”
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Tarini Bedi “The Feminization Of Patronage: Urban Brokerage And The Locality Of Power”
Fall 2011
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Fall 2011 Full Schedule
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Gowri Ramnarayan “Sarpa Satra/Sarpa Sutra: The Mahabharata, Arun Kolatkar, and an Experimental Play”
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Donald Davis, Jr. “Legal Consciousness in Medieval Indian Narratives”
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Ajantha Subramanian “Gifted: Merit and Caste in the Making of Indian Technical Knowledge”
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Qasid Mallah “Lakhan-Jo-Daro, Sindh: New Excavations at an Urban Center of the Indus Civilization”
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Akinori Uesugi “Excavations at the Harappan Cemetery at Farmana: New Insights on Relationship Between the Harappan and Local Cultures in the Ghaggar Plain, Haryana, India”
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Jeffrey Samuels “Toward an Aesthetic of Monastic Recruitment: The Monastery as an Avenue for Upward Mobility?”
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J. Mark Kenoyer “The Role of Marine Shell in Ornament, Art, and Ritual of the Indus Civilization: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective”
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Shelley Feldman “Constructing States and Citizens: Partition as a Social Project”
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Vinay Dharwadker, Sandeep Kindo, & John Stavrellis “Censorship and Scholarship: The Indian Case of A.K. Ramanujan’s ‘300 Ramayanas'”
Spring 2011
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Spring 2011 Full Schedule
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John Peters
Public/Private Partnerships in India: An Agricultural Model to Enhance Rural Prosperity -
Randall Law ‘Preliminary geologic assessments of rock-cut temples and cut-stone monuments in South India”
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Henri Schildt “The Māṭakkōvil Shrine Type in Kerala”
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Narendra Subramanian “Nation and Family: Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism, and Gendered Citizenship in India”
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Balasubramaniam Murali “Development Challenges in Afghanistan”
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Farida C. Khan “Predicaments of Plains Adibashis or Indigenous Groups in Bangladesh”
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Rakesh Basant “Who Participates in Higher Education in India? Rethinking the Role of Affirmative Action”
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S. Akbar Zaidi “A More Democratic Pakistan?”
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Mitra Sharafi “Parsi Legal Culture in British India”
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Deba Prashad Chatterjee “Globalization, Human Rights, and Agrarian Movements in Contemporary India”
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Ellen Raven “The emergence of the early Gupta style in gold coins and non-miniaturized arts”
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Thomas Hammes “Developing a Strategy for South Asia: A Contrarian View”
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Neeti Nair “The Problem of Return for Partition’s Punjabi Hindu Refugees”
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Lauren Mueenuddin “Maternal and Child Health in Pakistan”
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Kishan Rana “Understanding India’s Rise as a Great Power”
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Katherine Ewing & Baishakhi Taylor “Mourning, Ambivalence, and Acceptance: Friends, Family and Sex Reassignment Surgery in Kolkata”
Fall 2010
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Fall 2010 Full Schedule
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Nita Kumar “Education and Modernity in India”
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Mohammed Waseem “Pakistan: Democracy in the Age of Terrorism”
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Sarah Hodges “Biotrash in Chennai: On the Neoliberal Governmentality of Risk and Value”
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Ayaz Naseem “Education and Gendered Citizenship in Pakistan: A Postcolonial Investigation”
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B. Venkat Mani “Anuvaad (Translation), Anukaran (Mimesis), Samvaad (Dialogue): Translating Bertolt Brecht’s Die Dreigroschenoper (1928) as Teen Kaudi ki Nautanki (2010)”
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Jehangir Patel “Micro and Macro Perspectives on Indian Journalism: A Case Study of a Minority Community”
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Imtiaz Gul “The socio-economic cost of conflict to the people of Pakistan”
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Anne Blackburn “Engaging the Adventurers: A New Perspective on Dharmapala and Olcott in Colonial Lanka”
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Giancarlo Casale “The Ottoman Empire, the Indian Ocean, and the Dialectic of Universal Sovereignty”
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Ketu Katrak “Multiple Idioms of Contemporary Indian Dance”
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John Nemec “The River of Kings and The Ocean of Stories: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Tantrikas in the Rajatarangini and the Kathasaritsagra”
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Gautama Vajracharya “Unicorns in Ancient India and the Utilization of Their Horns for Making Vedic Ritual Implements”
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Mathangi Krishnamurty “Waking Life/ Working Life: The Sleepless Subjects of the Indian Call Center Economy”