Fall 2022 Events Series

September

Wednesday, September 7, 2022
4:30-6:00 PM

CSAS Lecture Series | The Sindhu Project: Enigma of Roots
Artists Mahwish Chishty, Gunjan Kumar, and curator Shaleen Wadhwana
Livestream/Virtual

Friday, September 16, 2022
4:30-6:00 PM

CSAS Lecture Series | Deconstructing Language Boundaries and Transnational Identities: Malayalees in Kerala and the US
Savithry Namboodiripad, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan
Room 110 Weiser Hall
VIDEO

Friday, September 23, 2022
4:30-6:00 PM

CSAS Lecture | Artistic Freedom and the State of Democracy in India: A Conversation with Documentary Filmmaker Anand Patwardhan
Panelists: Anand Patwardhan; Priya Jaikumar, University of Southern California; Siddharth Vardharajan, journalist; Chair/Moderator: Swapnil Rai, University of Michigan
Room 411 West Hall

Saturday, September 24, 2022
12:00-4:00 PM

CSAS Film Series | Reason ( Vivek)
Film Director, Anand Patwardhan
Michigan Theater

October

Thursday, October 6, 2022
4:00-6:00 PM

EIHS Lecture: Monuments Removed: Colonial-Era Statues in the Era of Decolonization
Durba Ghosh (Cornell University)
1014 Tisch Hall

Friday, October 7, 2022
4:30-6:00 PM

CSAS Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | The Law That Refuses to Die: Preventive Detention in Early Colonial India
Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto
Room 411 West Hall

Wednesday, October 12, 2022
7:30-10:00 PM

CSAS Film Series | We are not your Monkeys, Sanctum Santorum, In the Name Of God
Film Director, Anand Patwardhan
MLB 2 Modern Languages Building

Friday, October 14, 2022
4:30-6:00 PM

CSAS Book Talk | Running Toward Mystery
Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, Director, Center for Ethics and Transformative Values, MIT
Room 1010 Weiser Hall
VIDEO

Wednesday, October 26, 2022
7:30-10:00 PM

CSAS Film Series | Ribbons for Peace, Father, Son, and Holy War
Film Director, Anand Patwardhan
MLB 2 Modern Languages Building

November

Wednesday, November 2, 2022
7:30-10:00 PM

CSAS Film Series | A Narmada Diary, In Memory of Friends
Film Director, Anand Patwardhan
MLB 2 Modern Languages Building

Friday, November 4, 2022
4:30-6:00 PM

CSAS Lecture Series | The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes
Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Miller Professor Emerita of Indian and South Asian Art, Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Room 110 Weiser Hall

Wednesday, November 9, 2022
7:30-10:00 PM

CSAS Film Series | War and Peace
Film Director, Anand Patwardhan
MLB 2 Modern Languages Building

Friday, November 11, 2022
4:30-6:00 PM

Swineryy Speaks: A Conversation about Comedy, Culture and Storytelling
Swineryy, Pakistani comedian
Room 110 Weiser Hall

Wednesday, November 16, 2022
7:30-10:30 PM

CSAS Film Series | Jai Bhim Comrade
Film Director, Anand Patwardhan
MLB 2 Modern Languages Building

Wednesday, November 30, 2022
7:30-10:00 PM

CSAS Film Series | Bombay: Our City
Film Director, Anand Patwardhan
MLB 2 Modern Languages Building

December

Friday, December 2, 2022
4:30-6:00 PM

CSAS Lecture Series | “Bazaar Rumors” or “All Facts”? Film Sound Debates and the Transition to Sound in Indian Cinema
Neepa Majumdar, University of Pittsburg
Room 110 Weiser Hall