Month: April 2021

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May 4: Conversations on South Asia with Karuna Dietrich Wielenga

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Join us on Tuesday, May 4 from 12–1:15 pm EDT (17:00 GMT | 21:30 IST) for a bonus event in the Conversations on South Asia series featuring Karuna Dietrich Wielenga’s Weaving Histories: The Transformation of the Handloom Industry in South India 1800–1960.

Using an expansive array of sources—textual, material, and agricultural—Weaving Histories places the history of South India’s handloom industry within the wider frames of global and economic history. Looking at changes in the growing, cleaning, spinning, and weaving of cotton, the book provides an insightful and illuminating look at the interplay of regional, national, and global influences and their effects on the lives of ordinary weavers.

Prasannan Parthasarathi (History, Boston University) and Maxine Berg (History, University of Warwick) will be joining the conversation as discussants.

Elizabeth Lhost (History, Dartmouth College) will moderate.

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This event was organized by Doug Haynes with support from the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund and the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program at Dartmouth College.

All are welcome to attend. Register for the webinar here: https://dartgo.org/weavinghistories.

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April 13: Lecture by Suraj Yengde

“Caste as Race, Race as Caste: The Value of Thinking Across Cultures in Combating Racial Injustice”

A Lecture by Dr. Suraj Yengde , Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School

Tuesday, April 13, 2021 | 4:00 PM (EDT)  |  Zoom

Event Description:

Can race and caste be juxtaposed? Can they be replaced? What is the future of oppressed groups in light of anti-caste and anti-racism struggles? Is there a new idiom that could connect disparate groups oppressed by their color, class, and caste?   This lecture will discuss these issues as it discusses the contemporaneity of the 21st century. It will explicitly address Isabel Wilkerson’s intervention in a much longer intellectual history of connecting caste and race in both the United States and South Asia.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Suraj Yengde is currently a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He holds a research associate position with the department of African and African American Studies, a non-resident fellow position at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, and is part of the founding team of Initiative for Institutional Anti-Racism and Accountability (IARA) at Harvard University. He has studied on four continents (Asia, Africa, Europe, North America), and is India’s first Dalit Ph.D. holder from an African university (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg). Suraj is the author of the bestseller Caste Matters and co-editor of award winning anthology The Radical in Ambedkar. He has published in multiple languages in the field of caste, race, ethnicity studies, and inter-regional labor migration in the global south. Currently, he is involved in developing a critical theory of Dalit and Black Studies.   He has been named as the “Most influential Young Dalit” by Zee and has received many other awards and honors.

This event is hosted by Professor Douglas E. Haynes.