Spring Quarter (2021)

Tuesday, April 6, 2021, 4 pm (EDT): Conversations on South Asia Series

Durba Mitra, Harvard University, will discuss her latest book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought (Princeton University Press, 2020).

Additional details available on this page | Register here to attend.

Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 4 pm (EDT): “Caste as Race, Race as Caste” with Suraj Yengde

Can race and caste be juxtaposed? Can they be replaced? During this lecture, Suraj Yengde will discuss these issues in relation to Isabel Wilkerson’s new book.

Winter Quarter (2021)

Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 6:30 pm (EST) : Conversations on South Asia Series

Ajantha Subramanian, Harvard University, will discuss her latest book The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India with lawyer and disability rights activist and researcher Maitreya Shah and Thayer School PhD Candidate Teja Chatty.

Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/casteofmerit

Tuesday, February 9, 2021, 6:30 pm (EST) : Conversations on South Asia Series

Nusrat Chowdhury, Amherst College, will discuss her latest book Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in Bangladesh (Stanford University Press, 2019) with Rituparna Mitra (Emerson College).

Register here to attend.

Thursday, February 18, 2021, 4:30 pm (EST) : Public Lecture

Debjani Bhattacharyya, Drexel University, “A City of Swamps: Draining, Urbanization and the Environment in Colonial Calcutta, 1770-1900.”

Sponsored by the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund and the Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages Program.

Email Professor Haynes for meeting link.

Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 12 pm (EST) : Conversations on South Asia Series

Nandini Chatterjee, University of Exeter, will discuss her latest book Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords Across Three Generations (Cambridge University Press 2020).

Register here to attend.