Lecture Series Archive, Fall 2015-Spring 2020
Each semester card below contains a link to the full semester schedule and individual speakers.
Spring 2020
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Spring 2020 Full Schedule
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Dinidu Karunanayake “Midnight’s Daughters, Postgenerations, and Postmemories in South Asian American Writing”
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Walter Hakala “Ephemera in Stone: Shifting Language Use in South Asian Islamic Epigraphy”
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David DiValerio “‘Food will roll uphill’: Meditative Retreat and the Problem of Sustenance”
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South Asia Beyond the Humanities Faculty Roundtable
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Lakshmi Sreeram “The Crane Knows Not the Glory of the Lotus: Bhakti and Carnatic Music”
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J. Mark Kenoyer “New Perspectives on the study of the Indus Script: Origins, Character, Linkages and Decline”
Fall 2019
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Fall 2019 Full Schedule
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Nathan McGovern “Following the Snake and the Mongoose: Brahmanism and Its Avant-Garde in the Period Between the Empires”
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Thomas Blom Hansen “Democracy Against the Law. Reflections on India’s Illiberal Democracy”
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Ashish Sen “Looking Back, Looking Ahead – Some Reflections on Community Radio in India”
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Benjamin Siegel “Markets of Pain: Opium and Agrarian Crisis in Modern India”
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Zulfiqar Kalhoro “Memorial Stones in Sindh: Meanings, Symbols and Motifs”
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Meenakshi (Sumathi) Krishnan “The Making of Carnatic Music (CE 1800- 2000) & The Forces of Change”
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Shivaji D. Sargar “Education: Its Status in India”
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Ajantha Subramanian “Meritocracy and Democracy: The Social Life of Caste in India”
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Ajay Verghese “Secularization with Hindu Characteristics”
Spring 2019
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Spring 2019 Full Schedule
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Ulka Anjaria “Ishq Vishq, Pyaar Vyaar: Reading with a loving eye in the new India”
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Miriam Thangaraj “Silk, School & Special Economic Zones: Children’s learning and earning trajectories in Kanchipuram, India”
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Anand Yang “India in the Age of the Indo-Pacific: New Alliances, New Challenges”
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Cassie Adcock “Engineering the Sacred Cow: Cow Protection and Cow Production since the Nineteenth Century”
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Mitra Sharafi “Abortion in South Asia, 1860-1947: A medico-legal history”
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Stephen Young “Basic Income and the Future of Social Welfare in India”
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Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan “Reading India’s Rise: Genre, Neoliberalism, and Narrative Nonfiction”
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Jennifer Dubrow “Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia”
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Anthony Cerulli “The Manuscriptistan Project: Aesthetics in India’s Archives”
Fall 2018
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Fall 2018 Full Schedule
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J. Mark Kenoyer “Foodways of Ancient South Asia and their modern legacy: New Perspectives from the Indus Civilization and adjacent regions”
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Christoph Emmrich “The List, the Priest, the Client, and the Shopkeeper, or How To Know and How to Get What You Need in Newar Buddhist and Hindu Ritual”
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Anwesha Maity “Reassessing Marginality in Bengali (Bangla) Comics: Handa-Bhonda and Bantul The Great”
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Dennys Frenez “Sealing Technology and Practices in the Indus Civilization: Functioning and Significance of a Bronze Age Administrative System”
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Brett Hoffman “Indus Copper and Bronze Metallurgy: A Model from Harappa”
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Aparna Dharwadker “Theatre’s Uncommon Country: The Shaping of Performative Modernity in Urban India”
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Ujaan Ghosh “Combating “Filth”: The Temple, the State and Urbanisation in Late Nineteenth Century”
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Jeremy Manheim “Absent-mindedness Through the Lens of Indian Buddhism”
Spring 2018
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Spring 2018 Full Schedule
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Bart W. Édes “Development Challenges in Asia and the Role of Asian Development Bank”
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Vinay Dharwadker “Kalidasa’s Shakuntala in World Literature Today”
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Prabhdeep Kehal “Fleeting Access: Racialized and Class Exclusion through Higher Education Enrollment Management”
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Lalita du Perron “There’s Nothing Naive about Teasing Eve: Sexual Harassment Culture in North India”
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Rumya Putcha “Namaste Nation: Postcolonial Orientalism and the American Yoga Industry”
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Vinay Dharwadker, Special Seminar Event “Shakuntala: Comparison and Critical Revaluation in the Twenty-first Century”
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Divya Cherian “Illicit Sex in a ‘Globalizing’ World: Gender, Mobility, and Law in Eighteenth-Century Marwar”
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Gareth Nellis “Dominant Parties and the Origins of India’s Weakly Institutionalized Party System”
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Guneeta Singh Bhalla “Crowdsourcing Oral Histories: A New Approach to Public History and Gathering Humanities Data”
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Andrew Amstutz “‘Queen of the East’: Urdu Literature within an Indian Ocean World, 1940-1947”
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Pashaura Singh “Power Play in the Formation of the Sikh Canon”
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Rini Bhattacharya Mehta “Melancholia and Melodrama: Approaching Indian Film History through Cinematic Lives of Devdas”
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Isabel Huacuja Alonso “A Garland of Songs: Radio Ceylon and the Making of a Hindi Film Audience”
Fall 2017
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Fall 2017 Full Schedule
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Shah Mahmoud Hanifi “The Ethnic Map of Afghanistan: Historical Origins and Political Consequences”
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Todd Michelson-Ambelang “UW-Madison Libraries’ South Asian Collections:
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Elizabeth Lhost “What’s Law Got to Do with It?: Mufti Kifayatullah’s Readers, Religious Knowledge, and the Urdu Public Sphere”
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Amy Hirschtick “Soulful Objects, Selfless Objects: The Nature of Figures and Images of Hindu Gods”
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Rachel Berger “Clarified Commodities: Food Fights Between Politics and Economy in Interwar North India”
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Yaroslav Komarovski “Ultimate + Virtue = Ultimate Virtue? Tibetan Thinkers Debate the Possibility of Virtuous Ultimate Reality”
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Michael J. Altman “‘Hindoo’ Bodies: American Representations of Indian Medicine, Health, and Disease”
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Nkoyo Edoho-Eket “‘The Source of Strength’: Shakti and Formations of the Feminine Through the Image of the Goddess-Woman”
Spring 2017
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Spring 2017 Full Schedule
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Madhuri Desai “Visions of Order and Antiquity:
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Anita Mukherjee “Perils of Pressure in Door-to-Door Marketing: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India”
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Davesh Soneji “Devadasi Communities in Ceylon and the Straits Settlements: Tamil Circuits of Labour and Cultural Production in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”
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Christine Garlough “Archive Activism and Conversations about Feminism(s)”
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J. Mark Kenoyer “The Indus Civilization: Changing Perspectives on Ancient India”
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Annu Palakunnathu Matthew “Open Wound- Stories of Partition”
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Abdul Hameed “Origin and Dissemination of the Cruciform Shaped Stupas and Buddha Images with Double Haloes: A Study Based on New Discoveries from Bhamala, Taxila (Pakistan)”
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Sangay Mishra “South Asian American Political Lives: Beyond Ethnoracial Solidarity”
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Cynthia Farid “Separation of Powers or Separated Powers? Judicial Discourse in Early Twentieth Century India”
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Drew Thomases “Peace but No Quiet: Vibrations and the Making of a Hindu Soundscape”
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Presentations and Panel on Yoga and Ayurveda
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Claire Snell-Rood “Social Relationships and the Production of Wellbeing: An ethnographic examination of women’s health in urban India”
Fall 2016
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Fall 2016 Full Schedule
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Faisal Tirmzi, Consul General of Pakistan
“Pakistan’s Foreign Policy in South Asia and the United States” -
Microgrids Partnership
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Shobha Hamal Gurung “Nepali Migrant Women: Survival and Resistance in America”
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Gudrun Bühneman “Visions of Patañjali as a Nāga, Siddha and Sage”
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Sherry Harlacher “Collection Highlights: A Sampling of South Asian Textile Traditions in the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection”
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A. Padma Mangai “Activist Theatre and Theatre Activism in India: A Gendered Reading”
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Shahnaz Rouse “Fragments in time”
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Emmerich Davies “The Lessons Private Schools Teach: Using a Field Experiment to Understand the Effects of Private Schools on Political Behavior”
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James Jaffe “The Tortured Life and Mysterious Death of Trial by Jury in India”
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Lars Tore Flåten “Hindu Nationalism, History and Identity in India: Narrating a Hindu Past under the BJP”
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Subharati Ghosh “Demographic and epidemiological shifts, family structure, and elder care in India: How are Indian families navigating new terrain?”
Spring 2016
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Spring 2016 Full Schedule
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Gudrun Bühnemann “Nepal after the Earthquake”
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Manoj Mitta “Untouchable India: Impunity for caste violence”
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Mitra Sharafi “Blood Testing and Fear of the False in British India”
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Todd Michelson-Ambelang “UW-Madison Libraries’ South Asian Collections: Their Use and Their History”
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Aparna Kapadia “Re-inventing the region, re-inventing the self: Jhaverchand Meghani’s (1897-1947) writing on Saurashtra, Western India”
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J. Daniel Elam “The Martyr, the Moviegoer: Bhagat Singh at the Movies”
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Andre Wink “Empires of the East: The Return of Great Power Politics in the 21st Century”
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Supriya Dixit Hayer “The India Project: An Agent for Change and Social Inclusion”
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Ishita Pande “The Case of the Bigamous ‘Child Wife’: Proving Age, Leaving Husbands and Performing Childhood in Colonial Law”
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Sarah K. Khan “Bowing to No One”
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Adam Auerbach “Co-Ethnicity, Capacity, and Connectivity: Who Becomes a Slum Leader in India?”
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Julian Lynch “Soundscape Politics in Mumbai”
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John Dunne “Buddhist Theories of Mindfulness: the Voices of South Asian Contemplative Traditions”
Fall 2015
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Fall 2015 Full Schedule
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A. Aneesh “How Language, Labor, and Life become Global”
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Panel Discussion “Earthquake in Nepal: the one we had been waiting for but now what should I do?”
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Victor Jew “More Than Tuition Money: The ‘Asia Orienting’ of the University of Michigan’s Levi Barbour Scholarship for Women from the Orient, 1917-1930”
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Saba Dewan “‘The Personal is Political’ – The Documentary in India as mirrored in the films made by women film makers”
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Manuel Lopez-Zafra “From Suffering to Happiness: Buddhism and its Transformations in the West”
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Ahmed Tholal “Paradise Lost: A Case for Gender Justice in Maldives”
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Meeta Sandeep “Craft in India: From Tradition to the Contemporary”
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Nick Abbott “From Bahu to Badshah: The Begums of Awadh and Political Ideology in Early-Colonial North India”
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H. William Warner “The Influx of Stout Thews and Thighs: Afghan Labor Migration to British India,
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Jatinder Cheema “Rewards and Challenges of a Foreign Service Officer: Managing US Government Assistance Overseas”
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Sarah Besky “The Land in Gorkhaland: Rethinking Belonging in Darjeeling, India”
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Henry Drewal “Africans in India: Merchants, Soldiers, Admirals, Rulers… and Slaves”