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Public Talk: India’s Second Covid Wave: Reflections on a Longer History of Epidemics and Erasures

Join us Thursday, November 11 at 12:30 PM (ET) for a public talk with Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociomedical Sciences and History at Columbia University. 

The lecture will explore India’s recent COVID surge from the perspective of a past of epidemics and their politics in India in the colonial and post-colonial contexts. It probes a longer history of disease outbreaks and their containment at various scales that involved the power of experts, uses of medical knowledge, and the state power in India.

These changing approaches to epidemics offer insights into state priorities, and a growing marginalization of vulnerable populations as India’s modernization projects and quest for productivity have deepened. It has implied a diminished access to care and inequitable health priorities that preceded the COVID Second Wave and situate the human crisis of pain and loss that unfolded. 

Join Zoom Meeting | Meeting ID: 910 4552 9162  | Passcode: 383735 

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Conversations on South Asia with Mytheli Sreenivas

How did reproductive politics become central to producing modern India? In her latest book, Mytheli Sreenivas (The Ohio State University) tackles this question and turns to the history of marriage, the family, and contraception to show that reproduction was central to debates about politics, economics, and the future of independent India.

Join us Tuesday, November 9 from 12:15–1:15 pm (ET) for the next event in the “Conversations on South Asia” series featuring Sreenivas’s Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India (University of Washington Press, 2021) to hear more.

Amna Qayyum (Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University) and Carole McCann (Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies, UMBC) will be joining the author as discussants.

Elizabeth Lhost (History, Dartmouth) will host the conversation, moderated by Douglas Haynes(History, Dartmouth).

Register to attend the webinar.

Event attendees can use the promo code W139 to receive a 30% discount when ordering a copy of the book from the University of Washington Press.

The Conversations on South Asia Series is sponsored by the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund, the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program, and the Department of History at Dartmouth College.

All are welcome to attend.

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Conversations on South Asia with Abhishek Kaicker

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Were Mughal Delhi’s city-dwellers docile sheep the emperor ruled over, or did even the humblest of them assert claims to participate in public affairs? How did politics, economics, and religion shape their claims?

Following events in the imperial capital from its founding to its devastation at the hands of Iranian invader Nadir Shah in 1739, Abhishek Kaicker (University of California, Berkeley) explores the interplay between popular politics and royal authority in 17th-century Shahjahanabad (Delhi) in his latest book, The King and the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Join the author, in conversation with Tiraana Bains (History, Dartmouth) and Fariba Zarinebaf (History, UC-Riverside), to hear more.

Elizabeth Lhost (History, Dartmouth) will moderate the discussion.

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 from 12:15–1:15 pm (eastern)

Zoom | Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/conversations-kaicker

The “Conversations on South Asia” series is sponsored by the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund, the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program, and the Department of History at Dartmouth College.

All are welcome.