Weekly Lecture Series

Fall 2025 Schedule

Check back here soon to see more of our upcoming Fall 2025 Lecture Series schedule. To see past Lecture Series talk information and recordings, click the archive links below.

Sep 11, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CT

Mark Kenoyer

Changing Perspectives on the Indus Civilization: Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Pakistan and India

206 Ingraham Hall

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Sep 18, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CT 

David DiValerio

The Three-Year, Three-Month Retreat in Globalized Tibetan Buddhism: Early Findings and Ongoing Questions

206 Ingraham Hall

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Sep 25, 2025, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Rahul Rastogi

206 Ingraham Hall

My Grandma the Idiot? : An Informance on Charting Ante-modern Epistemologies through North-Indian Oral Storytelling Traditions.

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Oct 2, 2025, 12 pm CT

Tariq Ali

TBD

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Oct 9, 2025, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Todd Michelson-Ambelang

Decolonizing South Asian Collections via Collective Purchasing and Digitization Projects

206 Ingraham Hall

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Nov 6, 2025, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Adil Mawani

TBD

206 Ingraham Hall

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Nov 13, 2025, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Sneha Annavarapu

Licenses for Sale: on brokerage, bureaucracy, and driving in India

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Nov 20, 2025, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Rikhil Bhavnani

Judicial inefficiency in India. Or why Indian courts have 30 million cases pending

206 Ingraham Hall

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Dec 4, 2025, 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm CT

Shahana Munazir

Crafting ‘Behtar Zindagi:’ Rethinking aspiration and ethical labor of Muslim women in Urban India

206 Ingraham Hall

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