2008-09 Lecture Series Audio Files

Cows, Cars and Cycle-Rickshaws: The Politics of Nature on the Streets of Delhi, India

Amita Baviskar, Delhi University
Recorded on March 27, 2009 

Free to Wander: Some Questions, Predicaments, and Possibilities about Family Histories and Domestic Archives

Sanjay Joshi, Northern Arizona University
Recorded on March 20, 2009

Infrastructure

Swati Chattopadhyay, University of California, Santa Barbara
Recorded on March 13, 2009

Caste, Gender and the Body Politic:  Bengaluru's Experiments with Democracy

Janaki Nair, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Recorded on February 16, 2009

State, Space and Citizenship:  Indian Cities in the Global Era

Keynote Panel:

Solomon Benjamin, University of Toronto
Paromita Vohra, Independent Filmmaker, Mumbai
Ravi Sundaram, CSDS, Delhi

Recorded on December 23, 2008

Calcutta Coefficients: Styles of State-Building, Styles of Computations

Arindam Dutta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Recorded on November 7, 2008

Nature, Nationalism, and Public Intellectualism in India

K. (Shivi) Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University
Recorded on October 31, 2008

The Unwieldy Fetish: Desire and Disavowal of Indianness in South Africa

Thomas Blom Hansen, University of Amsterdam
Recorded on October 24, 2008

CSAS 2008 Summer in South Asia Undergraduate Symposium

Undergraduate Presenters:

Sasha Preston-Suni
Mounica Vallurupalli
Lainie Kokas
Hyunmin Han
Jane Xio
Ginger Cline

Recorded on October 3, 2008

Contemporary Indian Art and the War in Iraq: On Vivan Sundaram’s Engine Oil Work

Saloni Mathur, University of California, Los Angeles
Recorded on September 26, 2008

Religious Conflict and Syncretistic Culture in Peero's "160 Kafis"

Anshu Malhotra, University of Delhi
Recorded on September 12, 2008