Lecture Series Archive, Fall 2025-present
Each semester card below contains a link to the full semester schedule and individual speakers.
Spring 2026
Fall 2025
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Fall 2025 Full Schedule
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J. Mark Kenoyer “Changing Perspectives on the Indus Civilization: Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Pakistan and India”
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David DiValerio “The Three-Year, Three-Month Retreat in Globalized Tibetan Buddhism: Early Findings and Ongoing Questions”
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Rahul Rastogi “My Grandma the Idiot? : An Informance on Charting Ante-modern Epistemologies through North-Indian Oral Storytelling Traditions”
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Tariq Ali “Imagining and Producing the Pakistani Economy in East Bengal, 1940-1950”
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Todd Michelson-Ambelang “Decolonizing South Asian Collections via Collective Purchasing and Digitization Projects”
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Adil Mawani “Devotion in Colonial Islam: Representations of Muhammad in Urdu Sira”
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Sneha Annavarapu “Licenses for Sale: on brokerage, bureaucracy, and driving in India”
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Rikhil Bhavnani “Musical Chairs: How Frequent Judge Transfers Shape Judicial Decision-Making in India” (joint work with Saloni Bhogale and Amit Jadhav)
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Shahana Munazir “Crafting ‘Behtar Zindagi:’ Rethinking Aspiration, Ethical Labor, and Muslim Women’s Mobility in Urban India”