Spring 2026 Lecture Series

Feb 5, 2026, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CT

Sandra Schlage

Cosmic Dance in Stillness and Motion: New Insights into the Connection Between Indian Art History and Dance

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Feb 19, 2026, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CT 

Peter DeSouza

Why did Mrs. Gandhi impose the Emergency, and why did she lift it? Revisiting the Indian Emergency of 1975

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Feb 26, 2026, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Parul Kapur

Censorship and the Imperiled Modern Artist in Nehru’s India

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March 5, 2026, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Darshana Mini

‘S’ Certification and Sex-Education Films in India: From Family Planning to Poaching Pleasure

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March 12, 2026, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Swethaa Balakrishnan

BEND IT. Queer Coding in South Asian Popular Culture and Law

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March 19, 2026, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Anirban Karak

“For the sake of that liberty of selling”: Market Culture and Caste Struggle in Early Modern Bengal

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April 6, 2026, 4:00 pm- 5:00 pm CT

Lia Wolock

Sepia Mutiny and Coalitional South Asian America: Blogging New Racial Publics in the 2000s

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April 16, 2026, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Anuja Ghosalkar and Kai Tuchmann

Documentary Theatre in India: Assembling Publics, Performing Politics

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April 23, 2026, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Andrew Sartori

The Monetary Landscape of State Formation in the Eighteenth-Century Eastern Subcontinent: Coasts, Rivers, Deltas, and Highlands

206 Ingraham Hall

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