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Events Prior to Winter 2016

Archived Events
2016
March 2016
CSAS Lecture Series | Struggles for Citizenship around the Bay of Bengal
CSAS Lecture Series | Theory for a Global Age: Postcolonial Commitments, Interdisciplinary Entanglements
CSAS Lecture Series | The Growth of the Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau and the Effect of High Terrain on the Indian Monsoon
February 2016
CSAS Lecture Series | Biotrash: The Afterlives of Medical Garbage in India
CSAS Lecture Series | Advances in the Study of Cryptic South Asian Biodiversity
CSAS Lecture Series | Writing Area Studies and the World
January 2016
Author's Forum Presents "Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History," A Conversation with Thomas Trautmann and Andrew Shryock
CSAS Lecture Series | India Before the Himalayas: Dinosaurs, Deccan Traps, and Mass Extinction
2015
December 2015
CSAS Lecture Series | India's Information Deficit and the Governance Challenge: Some Experimental Evidence
November 2015
A Window to India | Gallery Exhibit | November 19 - December 4
CSAS Lecture Series | Writing History in Colonial Times: The Space and Time of Religious Polemic in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Southern India
Author's Forum Presents: From Bombay to Bollywood
CSAS Lecture Series | Pakistan--US Relations: An Appraisal
Kultar's Mime, directed by J. Mehr Kaur
Cultural Heritage in Sites and Museums in India: Challenges and Opportunities
October 2015
CSAS Lecture Series:
CSAS Distinguished Speaker: Ambassador Arun K. Singh
2015 Summer in South Asia Fellowship Symposium
Digital South Asia: An International Conference on Media, Culture, and Politics in South Asia
September 2015
CSAS Lecture Series | <i>An Ordinary Election</i> Film Screening
CSAS Lecture Series | Talking Pictures, Noisy Audiences: Early Sound Cinema in South Asia
April 2015
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series: Secularized Heritage and Fundamentalist India: The Case of M.F. Husain
Love Songs of Krishna and Radha: Gita Govinda representations in Odissi Dance and South Asian Art
Future Directions in Pakistan Studies
New Media and Social Change in Pakistan
March 2015
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series: The Work of Waste: Inside Urban India’s Infra-economy
February 2015
Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance: Confetti Sunrise: An Evening of Queer Dance
Needs versus Aspirations, or Why Mobile Phone Apps to Save the World Rarely Work
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series: History as Elegy: The Poetics of Commemoration in Early Modern Hindi
CSAS. History of Elegy: The Politics of Commemoration in Early Modern Hindi
January 2015
25th Asia Business Conference
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series: Youth Tobacco Control in India
25th Asia Business Conference
SAAN Conference Keynote Address by Almas Haider
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series: "The Voice in the Drum": South Asian Ethnography and Creative Writing
2014
December 2014
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series: The Syntax of Witness: A Reading and Discussion
November 2014
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series: Urdu Cinema During the 1940s and 50s
October 2014
CSAS Special Information Session: Summer in South Asia Fellowship Program
2014 Summer in South Asia Symposium
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series: Translation, Bilingualism and Hinglish
CSAS Special Information Session: The American India Foundation's William J Clinton Fellowship for Service in India
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series: Cold War Communication and the Cold War: An Indian History of a Global Form
September 2014
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series: Feminist Trajectories in the History of Thought: Perspectives from India
CSAS Conference: Recalling Democracy: Lineages of the Present
CSAS Conference: Recalling Democracy: Lineages of the Present
April 2014
UMSI Global Information Engagement Program Open Presentation Session
Land and Equity in Economic Development: Some Under-studied Issues
Theme Semester Media Series: Aaranya Kandam (Anima and Persona)
Body/Nobody: Reflections by the Artist on Her Work
Theme Semester Media Series: Bhooter Bhabhishyat (Spectre of the Past)
Annual Maya Dance Show: Akasha: The Elements in Motion
U-M Pakistan Conference: Cultures of Activism: Arts, Expression, and Pakistan
Penny W. Stamps Speaker Series and UMMA Present: Shahzia Sikander <i>Drawing as Ideas</i>
In Search of a Better World - the Path of Movement Building: One Man's Journey linking Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Rosa Parks
March 2014
Theme Semester Media Series: Oye Lucky Lucky Oye
Theme Semester Media Series: My Beautiful Launderette
Exhibit Opening Reception: A Place of Once's Own: Exploring America's South Asian Diaspora
Community Archives in the Digital Era: Creating the South Asian American Digital Archive
Theme Semester Music Series: Asif Ali Khan Qawwali Performance
Law School Lecture: A Year of Service (Abroad) as a Rite of Passage
Theme Semester Lecture Series: "Erotic Encounters: Shape-shifting Cops and the Criminal in Public Culture"
Theme Semester Lecture: "The Himalayan Journey of Walter Normal Koelz: The University of Michigan Himalayan Expedition, 1932-1934"
The Mountaineering Culture Studies Group Lecture Series. "Til-Mannered: Quest for the Tilman Spirit."
Sanjay Kak--Film Screening and Conversations with the Director
Theme Semester Media Series: Red Ant Dream
Blurred Lines: Intermarriage and the Weakening Caste Cleavage in Urban India
Each Night Put Kashmir in Your Dreams
Bunker Roy Unlearning
Theme Semester Media Series: Golmaal (Confusion)
February 2014
Theme Semester Media Series: Ramayana & Sita Sings the Blues
Michigan Sahana: Annual Winter Concert: Swaranjali
My Mother India--Film Screening and Conversations with the Director
Theme Semester Media Series: Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi (A Thousand Desires Like These)
Art on the Line: Cartography & Creativity in a Divided World
India Before the Himalayas: When Snakes Ate Dinosaurs
Space, Language, and Genre: For a Multilingual Literary History of Awadh
Theme Semester Lecture: "Iron Age Landscapes of South India: The Tungabhadra Corridor Archaeological Project"
Theme Semester Media Series: Tamas (Darkness)
Theme Semester Media Series: Maya Bazar
January 2014
Genealogies of the Security State: Special Trials, Martial Law, and Sovereignty in Early Colonial South India
Populist Publics: Print Capitalism and Embodied Politics in South India
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series. "Populist Publics: Print Capitalism and Embodied Politics in South India"
Theme Semester Media Series: Iruvar (The Duo)
Symposium: India as a Regional Power
Exploding Mangoes and Alice Bhatti: Readings and Conversation with the Author
Lecture Series. "Can a Plantation Be Fair? Fair Trade and Darjeeling Tea Production"
Elephants Abroad: A Hidden History of Ancient India's Influence in the World
Theme Semester Media Series: Dil Se (From the Heart)
Theme Semester Lecture: "Landscapes of Stone: Megaliths and Ritual in Iron Age South India"
Opening Reception: <i>India Map Exhibit</i>
Theme Semester Media Series: Garam Hawa (Scorching Winds)
Temple Destruction and Historical Construction: Rethinking the 'Fall' of Vijayanagara
2013
December 2013
Summer in South Asia Symposium
November 2013
CANCELLED CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series. "Urdu Cinema During the 1940s and 50s"
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series. "When Blindness Makes for Sight."
October 2013
The Manganiyar Seduction
The Manganiyar Seduction
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series. "Theorizing Lower Caste Politics: A View from Bihar"
CSAS Film Series. "Partners in Crime"
CSAS Lecture. "Addressing Under-Representation in the Time of Globalization: A Kerala Experience in Affirmative Action"
September 2013
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series. "Revealing Powers: Money, Morality, and Politics in Bangladesh"
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series. "Good to Eat, Good to Think: India's Changing Food Cultures"
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series. "Figures of Speech: Picturing Poetry in Fifteenth-Century Gujarat"
April 2013
Film screening of Rakesh Sharma's "The Final Solution"
The Digital Ecosystem of Governance in India after "Aadhaar"
Concert by Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, accompanied by Pt. Subhen Chatterjee
March 2013
From Artifact to Art:Tibetan Paintings from the Himalayan Hills
February 2013
Exfoliating Colorism: Contestations, Comedy, and Critique in India's Transnational Media Field
The Streets are Rising
UMS Concert: Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, sarod
The Practice of Translation: Academic Exercises and Activist Stances
January 2013
Memorial: Rhoads and Eleanor Murphey
Gandhian Textual Theories: Reading and Sovereignty in the Folds of Empire
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