South Asian Studies Speaker Series Presents: Sumana Roy
Why have our writers, artists, thinkers and scholars been compelled to turn their attention towards the ‘plant script’ in the last one hundred years? Beginning from Jagadish Chandra Bose’s ‘torulipi’ – literally the plant script, through which he hoped plants would write their autobiography – and moving through Rabindranath Tagore’s songs about the ‘language of
South Asian Speaker Series: Amrita De
The South Asian Speaker Series presents Amrita De (Penn State) on “Cruising Masculinity: Immanent Affect in Post Partition Short Stories”
South Asian Studies Speaker Series: Anita Mannur
The South Asian Studies Speaker Series (SASSS) hosts Anita Mannur (Miami University) presenting “Intimate Eating: Food in Asian America.”
South Asian Studies Speaker Series: Divya Cherian
The South Asian Studies Speaker Series (SASSS) hosts Divya Cherian presenting “Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia.” Divya Cherian is an historian of late precolonial and early colonial South Asia. She is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University and the author of the recently published Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in
South Asian Studies Speaker Series: Tarini Bedi
The South Asian Studies Speaker Series hosts Tarini Bedi (University of Illinois Chicago) presenting “Automobilities and Urban Topologies in Contemporary India: Whose Road Is It Anyway?”
South Asian Studies Speaker Series: Coralynn Davis
Film Screening: Sama in the Forest Coralynn Davis, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Bucknell University Sama in the Forest delves into the subversive role women’s folktales can play in a patriarchal society. The film is set in Madhubani, a district in India’s state of Bihar, where a rich cultural identity extends from the mythical
South Asian Studies Speaker Series
Thursday, September 28: Alaka Chudal Thursday, October 12 : Coralynn Davis Thursday, November 16: Elizabeth Kadetsky