2026-27 Lecture Series

September

September 15 - Elora Shehabuddin, University of California, Berkeley

Cultivating a Global Radical Imagination at the Grassroots: Communist Women’s Mobilization in Mid-20th-c. Assam/Eastern Bengal
Weiser Hall, Room 555

September 18 - Rattanamol Johal, University of Michigan

Rummana Hussain's Feminist Cosmopolitics
Weiser Hall, Room 555

October

October 30 - Asma Kazmi, University of California-Berkeley

Beyond the Seas Blue
Weiser Hall, Room 555

November

November 13 - Sonja Thomas, Colby College

Indians and Cowboys: Race, Caste, and Catholic Missionary Priests from India in Rural America
Weiser Hall, Room 555

January

January 22 - Shailaja Paik, University of Cincinnati

Annihilation of Caste: Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and the Making of a Radical Dalit Humanism
Weiser Hall, Room 555

January 29 - Sharika Thiranagama, Stanford University

What is the Private Life of Caste in India? The caste economies of India's success story
Weiser Hall, Room 555

February

February 12 - Tejaswini Ganti, New York University

Thinking in English, Speaking in Hindi: Translation, Creativity, and Value in Bollywood and Beyond
Weiser Hall, Room 555