Winter 2024
January
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
7:30-9:30 PM
CSAS South Asian Film Series | Aattam ( The Play) at the Michigan Theater
Off Campus Location
February
Friday, February 9, 2024
4:00-5:30 PM
CSAS Lecture Series | On Trying to Kill a Sexologist: Prison Science and the Minor Revolutionary Life of Homosexuality in Colonial India
Rovel Sequeira, LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
7:00 - 9:30 PM
CSAS South Asian Film Series | Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani
Michigan Theater
Friday, February 16, 2024
4:00-5:30 PM
CSAS Lecture Series | Translation and the Transcreated Nation: The Case of Qurratulain Hyder
Sadia Abbas, Associate Professor of Islam, the Humanities and the Human, Rutgers University-Newark
Room 110 Weiser Hall
March
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
7:00 - 9:30 PM
CSAS South Asian Film Series | Joyland
Michigan Theater
Friday, March 15, 2024
4:00-5:30 PM
Annual Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture | The Exemption that Proves the Rule: Reading Law Between the Lines of Medieval South Asian Foundation Charters
Timothy Lubin, Jessie Ball duPont Professor of Religion, Adjunct Professor of Law, and Head of the Law, Justice and Society Program at Washington and Lee University
March 29
CSAS 2024 Pakistan Conference
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
April
April 8-9 - Location TBD
Fall 2023
September
Friday, September 1, 2023
4:00-5:30 PM
CSAS Lecture | Genealogies of Knowledge Production: Information, Data, and Algorithmic World-Making
Purnima Mankekar, Professor, Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Friday, September 8, 2023
4:00-5:30 PM
CSAS Lecture Series | Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism
Mircea Raianu, Department of History, University of Maryland
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
4:00-5:30 PM
WCED Roundtable. The Troubling State of India's Democracy
Panelists: Larry Diamond, Stanford University; Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University, Bloomington; Dinsha Mistree, Stanford University. Respondents: Anindita Adhikari and Nandini Dey, University of Michigan
1010 Weiser Hall
Thursday, September 14, 2023
11:30 AM-1:00 PM
CSAS Lecture Series | Religious Minorities in Pakistan and Iraq
Rev. Salmoon Bashir
Off Campus Location
Saturday, September 16, 2023
5:30-7:30 PM
"Asian Music and Its Traditions": Roundtable Discussion
Opening Panel - 2023 Festival of Asian Music
Watkins Lecture Hall Earl V. Moore Building
Friday, September 22, 2023
4:00-6:00 PM
Silent Pasts and Speaking Presents: History and Language in Contemporary South Asia
G.N. Devy
10th Floor Weiser Hall
October
Thursday, October 5, 2023
5:30-7:00 PM
CSAS Documentary Screening | Seed Stories
Chitrangada Choudhury, PhD candidate in geography, University of Zurich, and Aniket Aga, assistant professor, geography, SUNY Buffalo
Room 1040 Dana Building
Friday, October 6, 2023
4:00-5:30 PM
CSAS Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Urdu's Intoxicated Mirror: Maharaja Kishan Parshad and Indian History
Syed Akbar Hyder, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Room 411 West Hall
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
7:30-9:30 PM
South Asian Film Series | Shoebox Screening with Filmmaker Faraz Ali
Faraz Ali, director and co-writer of Shoebox
Off Campus Location
Friday, October 20, 2023
4:00-5:30 PM
CSAS Summer in South Asia Symposium
2023 SiSA Fellows
Room 555 Weiser Hall
November
Thursday, November 2, 2023
10:00-11:30 AM
Kathakali Lecture/Demonstration
Keene Theater East Quadrangle
7:00-8:30 PM
Kathakali Performance
Dance-drama plays from India featuring Manoj Kumar
Keene Theater East Quadrangle
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
7:30-9:30 PM
CSAS South Asian Film Series | Zwigato at the Michigan Theater
Off Campus Location
December
Saturday, December 9, 2023
5:30-7:30 PM
"The Future of Asian Musical Traditions" Roundtable
Closing Event of the Fall 2023 Festival of Asian Music
Watkins Lecture Hall Earl V. Moore Building
Winter 2023
January 2023
Friday, January 20, 2023
4:30 - 6:00pm
CSAS Lecture Series | How to be Heard but not Seen: On Caste Concealment in the Music Industry
Joel Lee, William's College
Room 110 Weiser Hall
February 2023
Friday, February 10, 2023
4:30 - 6:00 PM
CSAS Lecture Series | Teaching Hindi in the United States: Strengths and Challenges
Rakesh Ranjan, Columbia University
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Friday, February 17, 2023
4:30-6:00 PM
CSAS Lecture Series | Digital Influencers and the Business of “Data Tested” Campaigns in India
Sahana Udupa, University of Munich
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Thursday, February 23, 2023
5:30-6:30 PM
Reading and Q&A with Rumaan Alam
Zell Visiting Writers Series
Stern Auditorium Museum of Art
Friday, February 24, 2023
10:00-11:00 AM
Pleasure: A Craft Lecture
Rumaan Alam, Zell Visiting Writers Series
#3222 Angell Hall
March 2023
Friday, March 10, 2023
4:30-6:00 PM
CSAS Lecture Series | The Prose Poetry of Partition: Saadat Hasan Manto’s Siyah Hashiye (Black Margins) and Formal Experimentation
Jennifer Dubrow, University of Washington
Virtual Only
Friday, March 24, 2023
4:30-6:00 PM
CSAS Lecture Series | Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism
Mircea Raianu, Department of History, University of Maryland
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Friday, March 31
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
CSAS 12th U-M Pakistan Conference: The Country and The City in Pakistan
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
April 2023
Friday, April 7
4:30 - 6:00 PM
CSAS Trautmann Honorary Lecture | Bhoja Among the Gonds: Place, Memory and the Afterlives of Kingship in Medieval India
Daud Ali, University of Pennsylvania
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
Fall 2022
September
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
4:30-6:00 PM
CSAS Lecture Series | The Sindhu Project: Enigma of Roots
Artists Mahwish Chishty, Gunjan Kumar, and curator Shaleen Wadhwana
Livestream/Virtual
Friday, September 16, 2022
4:30-6:00 PM
CSAS Lecture Series | Deconstructing Language Boundaries and Transnational Identities: Malayalees in Kerala and the US
Savithry Namboodiripad, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan
Room 110 Weiser Hall
VIDEO
Friday, September 23, 2022
4:30-6:00 PM
CSAS Lecture | Artistic Freedom and the State of Democracy in India: A Conversation with Documentary Filmmaker Anand Patwardhan
Panelists: Anand Patwardhan; Priya Jaikumar, University of Southern California; Siddharth Vardharajan, journalist; Chair/Moderator: Swapnil Rai, University of Michigan
Room 411 West Hall
Saturday, September 24, 2022
12:00-4:00 PM
CSAS Film Series | Reason ( Vivek)
Film Director, Anand Patwardhan
Michigan Theater
October
Thursday, October 6, 2022
4:00-6:00 PM
EIHS Lecture: Monuments Removed: Colonial-Era Statues in the Era of Decolonization
Durba Ghosh (Cornell University)
1014 Tisch Hall
Friday, October 7, 2022
4:30-6:00 PM
CSAS Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | The Law That Refuses to Die: Preventive Detention in Early Colonial India
Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto
Room 411 West Hall
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
7:30-10:00 PM
CSAS Film Series | We are not your Monkeys, Sanctum Santorum, In the Name Of God
Film Director, Anand Patwardhan
MLB 2 Modern Languages Building
Friday, October 14, 2022
4:30-6:00 PM
CSAS Book Talk | Running Toward Mystery
Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, Director, Center for Ethics and Transformative Values, MIT
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
VIDEO
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
7:30-10:00 PM
CSAS Film Series | Ribbons for Peace, Father, Son, and Holy War
Film Director, Anand Patwardhan
MLB 2 Modern Languages Building
November
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
7:30-10:00 PM
CSAS Film Series | A Narmada Diary, In Memory of Friends
Film Director, Anand Patwardhan
MLB 2 Modern Languages Building
Friday, November 4, 2022
4:30-6:00 PM
CSAS Lecture Series | The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes
Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Miller Professor Emerita of Indian and South Asian Art, Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
7:30-10:00 PM
CSAS Film Series | War and Peace
Film Director, Anand Patwardhan
MLB 2 Modern Languages Building
Friday, November 11, 2022
4:30-6:00 PM
Swineryy Speaks: A Conversation about Comedy, Culture and Storytelling
Swineryy, Pakistani comedian
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
7:30-10:30 PM
CSAS Film Series | Jai Bhim Comrade
Film Director, Anand Patwardhan
MLB 2 Modern Languages Building
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
7:30-10:00 PM
CSAS Film Series | Bombay: Our City
Film Director, Anand Patwardhan
MLB 2 Modern Languages Building
December
Friday, December 2, 2022
4:30-6:00 PM
CSAS Lecture Series | “Bazaar Rumors” or “All Facts”? Film Sound Debates and the Transition to Sound in Indian Cinema
Neepa Majumdar, University of Pittsburg
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Winter 2022
January
Friday, January 7
“CSAS Lecture | Bombay Cinema and the Caribbean: Rhythmic Flows and Cultural Migrations across Creolized Geographies.” Usha Iyer, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. VIDEO
Friday, January 28
“CSAS Lecture | Spatializing Islam during the Early Cold War: the ‘Ahmadi Question’ in the Munir Kayani Report and Pakistani Literature.” Cara Cilano, Department of English, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Michigan State University.
February
Friday, February 11
“CSAS Lecture | Market Futures: On Capital and Resistance in India Adda, Davos.” Ravinder Kaur, historian of contemporary India; Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen. VIDEO
Friday and Saturday, February 25 and 26
CSAS Transnational Conference | In and Out of South Asia: Race, Capitalism, and Mobility
Various speakers. VIDEO
March
Friday, March 11
“CSAS Lecture | Registration and resistance in nineteenth century Jaffna.” Nira Wickramasinghe, Chair and Professor of Modern South Asian Studies, Leiden University.
Friday, March 18
“CSAS Lecture | Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: The Ideas of Citizenship and Belonging in Pakistan.” Ali Usman Qasmi Humanities Center, Stanford University.
Friday, March 25
“CSAS Book Talk | Running Toward Mystery.” The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, President & CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
April
Friday, April 1
Thursday, April 7 and Friday, April 8
Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa
Friday, April 15
May
Friday, May 20
Fall 2021
September
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
II Roundtable on Afghanistan Javed Ali, Juan Cole, Antonio Giustozzi, Ambassador Susan D. Page; Moderator: Pauline Jones
Virtual
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Afghanistan Series. Flowers, Love and the Landscape of Violence: Queering War in Afghanistan. Dr. Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Thomas Jefferson University.
Virtual
October
Tuesday, October 5
“WCED Panel. Flashpoint: Afghanistan.” Adam E. Casey, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M, Dipali Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Governance and Markets, University of Pittsburgh; Aqil Shah, Visiting Scholar in the South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Wick Cary Associate Professor of International and Area Studies, University of Oklahoma.
Friday, October 8
“CSAS Lecture | Outcaste Bombay and Inter-war Marxism.” Juned Shaikh, Associate Professor of History, University of California Santa Cruz. Video
Friday, October 8, 2021
Diversity Makes Us Stronger: Language as a Bridge. Dr. Pinderjeet Gill, University of Michigan
Rackham Auditorium
Thursday, October 14
“II Conference. Gender and Health in Global, Transnational, and Historical Perspectives.” Various Speakers.
Friday, October 15
“CSAS Lecture | India's Newest Poses: The Imaginative Life of Yoga.” Shameem Black, Department of Gender, Media and Cultural Studies, Australian National University. Video
Monday, October 25
“PICS Career Event. Humanitarian and International Development Careers with Mercy Corps.” Michelle LeMeur, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Director, Mercy Corps Nepal.
Friday, October 29
“CSAS Lecture | Misinformation and Political Twitter in India.” Joyojeet Pal, Associate Professor, U-M School of Information, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India.
November
Wednesday, November 10
“Afghanistan Series. A Conversation with Award Winning Journalist and Author Anand Gopal.” Anand Gopal, Award-Winning Journalist and Author, Fellow at Type Media Center.
Friday, November 12
“CSAS Lecture | The Modern Cosmopolis: Sovereignty, Cosmology and the Extrapolitical.” David Gilmartin, Distinguished Professor of History at North Carolina State University.
Friday, November 19
“CSAS Lecture | Scaffolding of the Rule of Law: Legal Violence, Policing, and Scientific Interrogations in India.” Jinee Lokaneeta, Professor and Chair of Political Science and International Relations, Drew University. Video
December
Friday, December 3
“CSAS Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture | (Indian) Animals Are Good to Think With.” Stephanie Jamison, Professor (Distinguished Professor 2014) of Asian Languages and Cultures and of Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Video
Winter 2021
January
Thursday, January 28, 2021
EIHS Lecture: Towards a History of Agrarian Urbanism in India
Virtual
February
Friday, February 12, 2021
CSAS Lecture Series | Gandhi and the Claims of Indian Modernity. Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University
Virtual.
VIDEO
Friday, February 19, 2021
CSAS Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture | Time, Memory, Oblivion: Social Frames and the Production of Collective Pasts. Sumit Guha, University of Texas at Austin
Virtual
VIDEO
March
Friday, March 5, 2021
Michigan India Conference . Dr. Anantha Nageswaran & Mr. Neelkanth Mishra, Indian Prime Ministers Economic Advisory Council
Virtual
Friday, March 5, 2021
CSAS Book Talk | The Globally Familiar Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi. Gabriel Dattreyan, University of London
Livestream/Virtual
Thursday, March 11, 2021
CSAS Film Series | Covid Response ~ A Himalayan Story; Talk and Q&A with the Director. Munmun Dhalaria
Livestream/Virtual
Friday, March 12, 2021
CSAS Lecture Series | The Price of Acceptability: On South Asian Inclusion and Exclusion in the US. Vivek Bald, MIT
Livestream/Virtual
Friday, March 19, 2021
Michigan India Conference. Mr. D. Shivakumar, President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development, the Aditya Birla Group
Virtual
Friday, March 26, 2021
Michigan India Conference . Tim Roemer, Ambassador
Virtual
Friday, March 26, 2021
CSAS Lecture Series | Theorizing the Company Village: Corporate Social Responsibility in India’s Mining Belt. Sunila Kale, University of Washington, Seattle
Virtual
April
Friday, April 2, and Saturday, April 3, 2021
CSAS | 10th U-M Pakistan Conference - Religious Landscapes. Various Speakers
Livestream/Virtual
Saturday, April 3, 2021
CSAS U-M Pakistan Conference Keynote | Glimpsing History through Literature's Window: Religious Sentiments, Emotional Styles, Punjabi Poets. Jamal J. Elias, University of Pennsylvania
Livestream/Virtual
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
LACS & CSAS Conversation: Madam Vice President: Navigating South Asia and the Caribbean | A virtual roundtable on Vice President Kamala Harris and the boundaries of identity, politics, and belonging across South Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean. Supriya Nair, University of Michigan; Susan D. Page, University of Michigan; Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Northwestern University; Rupert Lewis, University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica
Virtual
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Indian Literature Series | Silappatikāram - The Tamil Epic. Vidya Mohan, University of Michigan
Virtual
Thursday, April 15, 2021
CSAS Lecture Series | The “Public” of Public Humanities: A Conversation about the University and Its Outside. Anupama Rao, Columbia University
Virtual
Friday, April 16, 2021
CSAS Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Muslim Religious Ideas and Identities in Mughal North India. Muzaffar Alam, University of Chicago ]
Room 1010, 10th Floor Event Space, Weiser Hall.
VIDEO
Fall 2020
September
Friday, September 25, 2020
CSAS 2020 Film Series | Travelling Film South Asia, Deepa Dhanraj, Director
Virtual
Friday, September 25
CSAS Lecture Series | Networked Bollywood: Star Power and the Global Flows of Indian Cinema, Swapnil Rai, University of Michigan
Virtual
October
Friday, October 2, 2020
CSAS 2020 Film Series | Travelling Film South Asia, Amit Mahanti, Min Min Hein
Virtual
Friday, October 9, 2020
CSAS Film Series | Riding on a Sunbeam: Q&A with the Producer/Main Actor, Mauktik Kulkarni, Producer/Actor
Virtual
Friday, October 16, 2020
CSAS 2020 Film Series | Travelling Film South Asia, Aashish Limbu & Debin Rai, Anant Raina
Virtual
Friday October 23, 2020
CSAS 2020 Film Series | Travelling Film South Asia, Debalina Majumder, Prateek Shekhar
Virtual
Monday, October 26, 2020
STS Speaker. Permeability as Pathology: Leaky Gut and Other-Threatened Borders, Nitin Ahuja, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Reading and Q&A with Author Megha Majumdar, Megha Majumdar
Virtual
Friday, October 30, 2020
Craft Workshop: Opening Pages, Acquisitions, and Demystifying Publishing, Megha Majumdar
Virtual
November
Friday, November 6, 2020
CSAS 2020 Film Series | Travelling Film South Asia, Sedika Mojadidi
Virtual
Friday, November 13, 2020
Saturday, November 14, 2020
CSAS | "Engaging Anti-Caste Praxis Across Languages," a Three-day Workshop for Writers, Translators, Publishers, and their Readers, Ajay Navaria, Alok Mukherjee, Aniruddhan Vasudevan, Anita Bharti, Aruni Kashyap, Arun Mukherjee, G.N. Devy, Laura Brueck, Mandira Sen, Maya Pandit, Meena Kandasamy, Perumal Murugan, Sharankumar Limbale, Susan Harris and Urmila Pawar
Virtual
Friday, November 20, 2020
CSAS 2020 Film Series | Travelling Film South Asia, Pankaj Rishi Kumar, Eshwarya Grover, Payal Kapadia
Virtual
Winter 2020
February
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
CSAS Film Series | Bamboo Stories
Room 455 Weiser Hall
Friday, February 14, 2020
CSAS Lecture Series | Islam and the Lessons of Pakistan’s History, Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Princeton University
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Monday, February 17, 2020
STS Speaker. ToxiCity: Practices of Living Anthropogenic Seas, Nikhil Anand, University of Pennsylvania
3100, Ehrlicher Room North Quad
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
CSAS Film Series | Swimming Through the Darkness
Romm 455 Weiser Hall
Friday, February 21, 2020
Subjunctive Explorations of Fictive Vaiṣṇava-Sufi Discourse in Bengal, Tony K. Stewart, Vanderbilt University
Monday, February 24, 2020
International Institute Conference on Migration
Suite 1010, 10th Floor Weiser Hall
March
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
CANCELLED - GISC Event. Community & Connections: Muslim Entrepreneurs in Metro-Detroit
Rogel Ballroom, Michigan Union
Thursday, March 26, 2020
CANCELLED - GISC Event. Muslims in the Digital Age: Podcasting & Illustration with Misha Euceph and Emmen Ahmed at the UMMA, Misha Euceph, Podcast Host & Producer, Emmen Ahmed, Illustrator & Artist
Multipurpose Room Museum of Art
Friday, March 27, 2020
CANCELLED - CSAS Lecture Series | In Defense of Collateral Evidence: Refugees and Post-Partition IDs in Delhi, Tarangini Sriraman, Azim Premji University
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Friday, March 27, 2020
CANCELLED - GISC Event. Muslims in the Digital Age: Podcasting & Illustration with Misha Euceph and Emmen Ahmed at the Room Project
Room Project, 6513 Woodward Ave, Detroit
April
Friday, April 3, 2020.
CANCELLED - CSAS Lecture Series | The Price of Acceptability: On South Asian Inclusion and Exclusion in the US, Vivek Bald, MIT
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Thursday, April 9, 2020
POSTPONED to SPRING 2021. Behind Walls, Beyond Discipline: STS and the Carceral State, Keith Breckenridge, University of Witwatersrand
Michigan League
Friday, April 10, 2020
POSTPONED to SPRING 2021. Behind Walls, Beyond Discipline: STS and the Carceral State, Keith Breckenridge, University of Witwatersrand
Michigan League
Friday, April 10, 2020
CANCELLED - CSAS 10th UM-Pakistan Conference
North Quad
Fall 2019
September
Friday, September 13, 2019
CSAS Lecture Series | Widows under Hindu Law: an Overview, David Brick, University of Michigan
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Friday, September 20, 2019
CSAS Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture | Early Readers and Early Readings of the Mahābhārata, Christopher Minkowski, University of Oxford
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Monday, September 23, 2019
The Making of the Cambridge History of the Modern Indian Subcontinent, Mithi Mukherjee, Kaushik Roy, Gopal Balachandran, Sumathi Ramaswamy, Prachi Deshpande, Rachel Sturman, David Ludden, Sanjay Sharma, Mahesh Rangarajan
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
The Making of the Cambridge History of the Modern Indian Subcontinent, Samita Sen, Subho Basu, Abigail McGowan, Projit Mukherji, Manu Goswami, Sandria Freitag, Rohit De, Nitin Sinha, Chandra Malampalli, Tanika Sarkar
1014 Tisch Hall
October
Friday, October 4, 2019
CSAS Summer in South Asia Fellowship Symposium
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
Friday, October 11, 2019
CSAS Lecture Series | Of Commodities and Frontiers: Looking for "Capitalism" on the Edges of Britain’s Indian Colonies, Subir Sinha, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Dismantling Casteism & Racism: Symposium | Continuing the Unfinished Legacy of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Ronald E. Hall, Ankita Nikalje, Gaurav Pathania
Vandenberg - 2nd Floor Michigan League
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
WCED Lecture. The Authoritarian Origins of Dominant Parties in Democracies: Lessons from India, Adam Ziegfeld, Temple University
Room 555 Weiser Hall
November
Friday, November 1, 2019
CSAS Lecture Series | World Literature, the Global South and Indian Ocean Worlds
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Unruly Figures, Vernacular Idioms: Politics of Sexuality in India, Professor Navaneetha Mokkil (JNU, New Delhi)
Room 3512 Haven Hall
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Why Are Buddha Statues So Big? Space, Time, and Unusual Human Bodies in Buddhism, Reiko Ohnuma, Dartmouth College
Amphitheatre Rackham Graduate School
Friday, November 22, 2019
CSAS Lecture Series | The Indian State that Fails and Delivers, Devesh Kapur, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Room 110 Weiser Hall
December
Thursday, December 5, 2019
EIHS Lecture: The Pen and a Sea of Pearls: Decolonizing Contemporary Historical Storytelling, Samia Khatun, SOAS, University of London
1014 Tisch Hall
Winter 2019
January
Friday, January 18, 2019
CSAS Lecture Series | Understanding the New Credibility Regimes of Development: The Politics of Sanitary Pads as a Pro-Poor Technology in India, Shobita Parthasarathy, University of Michigan
February
Friday, February 8, 2019
CSAS Film Series | Fireflies in the Abyss
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
Friday, February 15, 2019
CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia 2019, Steven Mace, Farida Begum, Janaki Phillips, Padma Chirumamilla, Vaishnav Kameswaran, Zehra Hashmi, Indrani Chatterjee
Thursday, February 28, 2019
CSAS Film Series | Soz - A Ballad of Maladies
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
March
Monday, March 11, 2019
CSAS Film Series | Is it too much to ask?
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
Friday, March 15, 2019
CSAS Lecture Series | Practicing Vulnerability -- Men's Rights Activists, Embodiment and Appropriation, Srimati Basu, University of Kentucky
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
A/PIA Studies Lecture: Refusal to Eat, Nayan Shah
3512 Haven Hall
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Islamic Peace Studies Conference. The Abode of Peace: Spirituality and Harmony in Islam, Irfan Omar, Juan Cole, Valerie Hoffman, Alexander Knysh, Jennifer Nourse
Michigan Room, Michigan League
Friday, March 22, 2019
Islamic Peace Studies Conference. The Abode of Peace: Spirituality and Harmony in Islam, Irfan Omar, Juan Cole, Valerie Hoffman, Alexander Knysh, Jennifer Nourse
Suite 1010 Weiser Hall
Sunday, March 23, 2019
Islamic Peace Studies Conference. The Abode of Peace: Spirituality and Harmony in Islam, Irfan Omar, Juan Cole, Valerie Hoffman, Alexander Knysh, Jennifer Nourse
Ann Arbor Christian Reformed Church 1171 Broadway St., Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Sunday, March 30, 2019
CSAS 9th Annual Pakistan Conference: Spaces of Capital, Amen Jaffer, Maira Hayat, Nicolas Martin, Muhammad Ali Jan, Saima Zaidi, Perween Raman
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
Sunday, March 30, 2019
CSAS Film Series | Perween Rahman: The Rebel Optimist
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
April
Thursday, April 4, 2019
CSAS Film Series | Lock and Key, Shilpi Gulati, Director
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
New Year Celebration, South Asian Language Program
2435 North Quad
Friday, April 12, 2019
CSAS Lecture Series | Film’s Mise-en-Scène as Labor’s Social Space, Priya Jaikumar, University of Southern California
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Monday, April 15, 2019
CSAS Film Series | Rasan Piya
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
Friday, April 19, 2019
2019 Digital South Asia Conference | Portals and Platforms: Cultures of Entertainment in Digital India, Ankur Khanna, Paromita Vohra
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
Friday, April 19, 2019
CSAS Film Screening | Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota (The Man Who els No Pain)
Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street
Fall 2018
September
Friday, September 7, 2018
CSAS Lecture Series | Decasticization,"Dirty Work" and Dignity: A Case Study of Arunthathiyars in Tamil Nadu, Ram Mahalingam, University of Michigan
Monday, September 17, 2018
STS Speaker. Collecting Bodies, Bodily Collectives: Trace Identities in British India, 1918-47, Projit Bihari Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania
Friday, September 28, 2018
CSAS Lecture Series | Buddhism, Secularism and the Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka, Ben Schonthal, University of Otago, New Zealand
October
Friday, October 5, 2018
CSAS Lecture Series | Summer in South Asia Fellowship Symposium
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
CSAS Lecture Series | Lucknow in Letters: Endeavours, Achievements, and Tragedies, Sanjay Muttoo, Kamla Nehru College, Delhi University
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
Friday, October 19, 2018
CSAS Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture | Conflict, Violence and Resistance in Ancient India, Upinder Singh, Ashoka University (Sonepat)
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
Friday, October 26, 2018
CSAS Lecture Series | A Vigil Wasted? Notes on the Ruin-Sublime in Afghanistan, Mrinalini Chakravorty, University of Virginia
Room 110 Weiser Hall
November
Thursday, November 8, 2018
EIHS Lecture: Peacetime Aerial Bombing: A Colonial Genealogy for the Ever-Disappearing Civilian, Vazira Zamindar, Brown University
Friday, November 9, 2018
CSAS Kavita S. Datla Memorial Lecture | Dark Genealogies: Ambedkar's Struggles with History, Sudipta Kaviraj, Columbia University
Helmut Stern Auditorium Museum of Art
Friday, November 30, 2018
CSAS Lecture Series | “We Were Always Buddhist:" Caste Emancipation and Sexual Politics in South India, Lucinda Ramberg, Cornell University
Room 110 Weiser Hall
December
Friday, December 7, 2018
CSAS Lecture Series | Digital Tamil Cinema: Tendencies, Trends, and Possibilities, Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai, Michigan State University
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Winter 2018
January
Monday, January 8, 2018
CSAS Lecture Series | India's Archaeological Heritage Since Independence: Challenges and Dilemmas, Nayanjot Lahiri, Ashoka University
10th Floor Event Space Weiser Hall
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia 2018, Ajay Skaria, University of Minnesota (Keynote Speaker)
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
February
Friday, February 2, 2018
Asian Languages Fair
Pond Room Michigan Union
Friday, February 2, 2018
CSAS Lecture Series | Atmospheric Citizenship: Distributions of Life in the Wake of Delhi’s Airpocalypse, Asher Ghertner, Rutgers University
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Friday, February 9, 2018
CSAS Lecture Series | India: The Contours of Emerging Agrarian Crisis and its Implications, Ajay Dandekar, Shiv Nadar University
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Monday, February 12, 2018
CSAS Lecture Series | Demons in Paradise Film Screening, Jude Ratnam, Filmmaker & V.V. Ganeshananthan, University of Minnesota
Space 2435 North Quad
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
CSAS Lecture Series | The Way She Saw It: Introducing Gauri Lankesh, Chandan Gowda, Azim Premji University
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Friday, February 16, 2018
CSAS Lecture Series | Reactive Viewing: Screens and Publics in 21st Century India, S.V. Srinivas, Azim Premji University
Room 110 Weiser Hall
March
Monday, March 12, 2018
STS Distinguished Speaker. Making Postcolonial Bodies: Tales from An"Other" Enlightenment, Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1014 Tisch Hall
Friday, March 16, 2018
Michigan India Conference
Ross School of Business
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Nayikas: Classical Indian Heroines in Odissi and Mohiniattam, Sreyashi Dey & Priyadarshini Ghosh
Off Campus Location
Friday, March 30, 2018
CSAS Lecture Series | The Rise of the Imperial Eunuchate under Emperor Aurangzeb, 1658-1707, Munis Faruqui, University of California, Berkeley
10th Floor Event Space, Weiser Hall
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Migrant Stories , Ather Zia (University of Northern Colorado)
Lobby 202 S. Thayer
April
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Compendium as Archive? Muslim Ethical Thought and its Circulation in Colonial India, Farina Mir
Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022 202 S. Thayer
Friday, April 6, 2018
CSAS Conference | 8th Annual Pakistan Conference: Movement, Migration, and Borders
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
Monday, April 9, 2018
STS Speaker. Credibility Struggles in Times of Tectonic Upheaval: Rethinking Civic Epistemologies around Indian Nuclear Power Politics, Monamie Bhadra, Ohio State University
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Nayikas: Classical Indian Heroines in Odissi and Mohiniattam, Sreyashi Dey & Priyadarshini Ghosh
Keene Theater, East Quadrangle
Friday, April 13, 2018
CSAS Lecture Series | Consumer Citizenship: The Social Life of Industrial Foods in India, Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Process in Modern and Contemporary Islamic Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium Museum of Art
Monday, April 16, 2018
CSAS Film Screening | An Insignificant Man, Vinay Shukla, Director
June
Monday, June 25, 2018; Tuesday, June 26, 2018; Wednesday, June 27, 2018
World History and Literature Initiative
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
Fall 2017
September
Friday, September 8, 2017
CSAS Lecture Series | Changes in Dowry Practices?: Insights on Dowry and Its Regulation, Vikramaditya Khanna, University of Michigan Law School
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Friday, September 22, 2017
CSAS Conference | Seeking Social Justice in South Asia, Room 1014 Tisch Hall
Saturday, September 23, 2017
CSAS Conference | Seeking Social Justice in South Asia
Friday, September 29, 2017
CSAS Lecture Series | Sarandib, Lanka, Ceylon: Banishment and Belonging, Ronit Ricci, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Room 110 Weiser Hall
October
Friday, October 6, 2017
CSAS Lecture Series | Summer in South Asia Fellowship Symposium
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Mohsin Hamid: EXIT WEST
Amphitheater Rackham Graduate School
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Migritude (Workshop)
3154 Angell Hall
Friday, October 13, 2017
CSAS Lecture Series | ‘Marriage’, ‘Trafficking’ and the Transnational Family: Moral and Legal Regulation of Nineteenth Century Women’s Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean, Farhana Ibrahim Indian Institute of Technology
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Monday, October 16, 2017, and Tuesday, October 17, 2019
Interrogating the Histories and Futures of “Diversity’’ Symposium, Transnational Perspectives, Damani Partridge
411 West Hall
Friday, October 20, 2017
CSAS Lecture Series | Inordinate Knowledge: Intimacy and Publicity in a Slum in Delhi, Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University
Room 110 Weiser Hall
November
Thursday, November 2, 2017
CSAS Lecture Series | Film Screening and discussion of Khoon diy Baarav (Blood Leaves its Trail), Iffat Fatima, Filmmaker
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Friday, November 3, 2017
ISP Lecture. The Eager Fundamentalist: Muslim Mimicry in the Caribbean, Aliyah Khan, University of Michigan
555 Weiser Hall
Monday, November 6, 2017
The role of science and technology policy in developing countries, Dr. T. Ramasami, former secretary of science and technology for India
Annenberg Auditorium Weill Hall (Ford School)
Monday, November 13, 2017
CSAS Lecture Series | The Highway, Automobility and New Promises in 1960s Bombay Cinema, Ranjani Mazumdar, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Friday, November 17, 2017
ISP Lecture. Eating the Audience’s Brain: Persianate Sociability in 18th-Century Delhi’s Poetry Salons, Nathan Tabor, Western Michigan University
110 Weiser Hall
December
Friday, December 1, 2017
CSAS Lecture Series | Self and the World in a Life Narrative: Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah's Aatish-i-Chinar, Chitralekha Zutshi, College of William and Mary
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Friday, December 8, 2017
CSAS Lecture Series | “Minimum Government, Maximum Governance”: Modi’s Statue of Unity and the Sense of Scale, Kajri Jain, Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto
Room 110 Weiser Hall
Winter 2017
January
Friday, January 20, 2017
CSAS Lecture Series | Justice and Tolerance in Islamic Thought: Maududi's Al-Jihad fil Islam, Humeira Iqtidar, King's College London
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
Thursday, January 26, 2017
South Asian Language Table
Third Floor Atrium 202 S. Thayer
February
Friday, February 3, 2017
Friday, February 3, 2017
CSAS Lecture Series | The Interjacent Intellectual: Conceptual Struggles for Authenticity in Three Indian Philosophers, Jonardon Ganeri, New York University
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
Friday, February 10, 2017
DISC Webinar. Live Interview with Aman Ali, Aman Ali, storyteller and comedian
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Endangered Heritage Conference
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
Thursday, February 16, 2017
South Asian Language Table
Third Floor Atrium 202 S. Thayer
Friday, February 17, 2017
Endangered Heritage Conference
Amphitheater and Conference Rooms Rackham Graduate School
Friday, February 17, 2017
CSAS Lecture Series | Corruption and Forensic Experts in British India, Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin Law School
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
March
Monday, March 6, 2017
Film Screening. "The Island President", Mohamed Nasheed, Former President of the Maldives, political prisoner, human rights leader
1636 School of Social Work Building
Monday, March 6, 2017
The Island President's Struggle for Democracy and Environmental Justice in the Maldives, Donia Human Rights Center Panel with President Mohamed Nasheed, Jared Genser, and Rebecca Hardin
1636 School of Social Work Building
Thursday, March 9, 2017
CSAS Film Screening | Cities of Sleep, Shaunak Sen, filmmaker
Room 1644 School of Social Work Building
Friday, March 10, 2017
CSAS Lecture Series | The Political Theology of Vernacularization in Premodern India, Christian Novetzke, University of Washington
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Land, Housing, Air: Deciphering Urban Governance in China and India, Xuefei Ren, Michigan State University
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Merchants of Knowledge: Petty retailing of chemical inputs and the perils of upward mobility among farmers in western India, Aniket Aga, UM School of Natural Resources and Environment
Room 2024 Dana Natural Resources Building
Thursday, March 16, 2017
South Asian Language Table
Third Floor Atrium 202 S. Thayer
Friday, March 17, 2017
CSAS Lecture Series | Technicolor Transnationalism: Film Technology between Hollywood and Bombay in the 1950s, Nitin Govil, University of Southern California
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
Friday, March 24, 2017
CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Islamic Traditions of Papermaking in India, Radha Pandey, papermaker & letterpress printer
Gallery (Room 100) Hatcher Graduate Library
Friday, March 31, 2017
CSAS Lecture Series | Meritocracy and Democracy: the Social Life of Caste in India, Ajantha Subramanian, Harvard University
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
April
Friday, April 7, 2017
CSAS 7th Annual UM-Pakistan Conference | Gender & Sexuality
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
CSAS Lecture Series | Pakistan and Current Geopolitics, Mr. Faisal Niaz Tirmizi, Consul General of Pakistan
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar Annual Symposium. Islamic Studies in the Trumpocene: Arts/Praxis/Ideas
Koessler Room Michigan League
Saturday, April 15, 2017
UMS Presents: Sanam Marvi
Rackham Graduate School
Friday, April 21, 2017
Madhav Deshpande: A Celebration of a Distinguished Career
East Conference Room, Rackham Graduate School
Fall 2016
September
Thursday, September 15, 2016
South Asian Language Table
3000 Atrium 202 S. Thayer
Friday, September 16, 2016
CSAS Lecture Series | Encounters at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean, Jatin Dua, University of Michigan
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
Friday, September 30, 2016
CSAS 2016 Summer in South Asia Fellowship Symposium
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
October
Friday, October 7, 2016
CSAS Sound and South Asia Conference
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
Sunday, October 8, 2016
CSAS Sound and South Asia Conference
Friday, October 14, 2016
CSAS Film Screening of "For the Love of a Man", Joyojeet Pal, University of Michigan; Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai, Michigan State University
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
Thursday, October 20, 2016
South Asian Language Table
3000 Atrium 202 S. Thayer
Friday, October 28, 2016
CSAS Lecture Series | Markets in Life: Surrogate Mothers on India's Reproductive Assembly Lines, Sharmila Rudrappa, University of Texas at Austin
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
November
Friday, November 4, 2016
II Career Event
1636 School of Social Work Building
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Rationality and Alienation: Themes from Gandhi’s Political Philosophy, Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University
3222 Angell Hall
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Three Villages, Two Investigations, and the Rule of Law in India, Nandini Sundar, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University
Room 1014 Tisch Hall
Thursday, November 17, 2016
South Asian Language Table
3000 Atrium 202 S. Thayer St.
Friday, November 18, 2016
CSAS Lecture Series | Royal Rage in Rajputana: The Politics of Anger in Mughal India, Cynthia Talbot, University of Texas at Austin
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
December
Friday, December 2, 2016
CSAS Lecture Series | The Making of the "Comilla Model": Experiments in Rural Development in East Pakistan, 1959-1971, Tariq Ali, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
Winter 2016
April
Friday, April 1, 2016
CSAS Film Series | "Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai" (Muzaffarnagar Eventually...), Nakul Sawhney, Film Director
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
Friday, April 8, 2016
Infrastructure and Its Discontents, CSAS 6th Annual U-M-Pakistan Conference
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building
Friday, April 15, 2016
CSAS Panel Discussion | Discrimination, Inequality, and Suicide in Higher education in India: A Panel Discussion
Room 1644 School of Social Work Building
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Workshop on Large-Scale Land Transactions
Dow Commons (4th Floor), Dana Natural Resources Building
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Workshop on Large-Scale Land Transactions
Dow Commons (4th Floor), Dana Natural Resources Building