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Events
Aug
29
CSAS Lecture Series | “They Have My
Kundli”: Understanding Urban Indian Social Media Users’ Beliefs about Social Media Algorithms
Pranav Malhotra, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Media, University of Michigan
4:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Sep
02
International Studies Virtual Information Session and Q&A
Danielle Schmidt, Program in International and Comparative Studies Program Coordinator
12:00 PM
Virtual
Sep
02
Beyond Violence, Borders, and Silence: How Exiles Confronted Authoritarianism in Argentina and Colombia, 1970-1991
Leydy Diossa-Jimenez, Ph.D., University of Michigan
4:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Sep
05
CSAS Graduate Student Conference | New Directions in South Asia: From Nostalgia to New Politics
Featuring Lisa Mitchell, Professor of Anthropology & History, Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
10:00 AM
Room 1014
Tisch Hall
Sep
05
Documentation as Political Practice: From Contemporary Nostalgia for the Left to the New Evidentiary Politics in 1970s South India
Lisa Mitchell, Professor of Anthropology & History, Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
4:30 PM
Room 1014
Tisch Hall
Sep
10
CCPS Lecture. Polish Diaspora Identities in Archival Home Movies
Agata Zborowska, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow; postdoctoral fellow, University of Chicago and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; and assistant professor, Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall