Events
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Event Archive
Southern Asia Seminar: Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan
Ijlal Naqvi Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Dean (Curriculum and Teaching), School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University Despite prioritization by successive governments, targeted reforms shaped by international development actors, and...
Southern Asia Seminar: The Political Ecology of Flood and Migration in Cambodia: A Comparative Case study of Rural-urban center
Try Thoun Lecturer/researcher and program coordinator for the Department of Sustainable Urban Planning and Development (DSUPD), Faculty of Development Study, Royal University of Phnom Penh Like many other cities in Southeast Asia, Cambodia cities are experiencing...
Southern Asia Seminar: ‘Can there be development without political rights: Debating Adivasi/indigenous people development in India’
Bhangya Bhukya Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of history at the University of Hyderabad The pertinent question I will ask in this talk is this --can there be development without political rights? This question...
Twentieth Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference: South Asian Stories and Storytelling
The theme for the SAGSC XX is Stories and Storytelling. Stories and their tellings are the bedrock of social life. Origin myths, national histories, religious texts, political manifestos, personal life histories — each of these shape understandings of the human...
Student Session with Dr. Pratap Bhanu Mehta
An insider analysis of Indian Democracy from a historical lens with Dr. Pratap Bhanu Mehta, current Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University and one of India's leading scholars and public intellectuals. Snacks and light...
TAPSA: Postcolonial Bohemians: World-Poetry and “Troublesome” Poets in 1960s Bengal
Supurna Dasgupta, PhD Candidate, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations I track two different trajectories of world-poetry that thrived across continental barriers in postcolonial Bengal and in 1960s North America. Both these trajectories were...
Southern Asia Seminar:The Administration of Pollution: Evidence from Crop Burning in South Asia
Saad Gulzar Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University Air pollution in South Asia is one of the largest public health emergencies on the planet, responsible for a million deaths annually. A third of the pollution is caused...
TAPSA: Images of Belonging: Lawyers in the People’s Court
Krithika Ashok, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology The Supreme Court of India, since the 1980s, when it first articulated its “public interest litigation” jurisdiction, has often been flatteringly described as a “people’s court.” This reputation, however,...
Southern Asia Seminar: Wandering Wonderworkers: Madari views of place and space in Maharashtra and India
Shreeyash Palshikar Fulbright Nehru Fellow 2019-2020 I An Affiliate of the UPenn South Asia Center I Fusion Magician Itinerant magicians, jadoowallas or madaris, have astounded audiences in South Asia since antiquity. They fascinated pre-Mughal, Mughal, and...
TAPSA: The Dawning of the Persian Age: Occult Iranophilia in Akbar’s Hindustan
Shaahin Pishbin, PhD Student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Akbar’s reign (1556-1605) as Mughal emperor has always been notable for his massive sponsorship of Persian letters and Iranian intellectuals. This paper considers what was at stake in the...