Weekly Lecture Series

Spring 2026 Schedule

Check back here soon to see more of our upcoming Spring 2026 Lecture Series schedule. To see past Lecture Series talk information and recordings, click the archive links below.

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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