Winter 2022 Events Series

Friday, January 22, 4:30-6:00 p.m. 

“CSAS Lecture | Bombay Cinema and the Caribbean: Rhythmic Flows and Cultural Migrations across Creolized Geographies.” Usha Iyer, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.

Friday, January 28, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

“CSAS Lecture | Spatializing Islam during the Early Cold War: the ‘Ahmadi Question’ in the Munir Kayani Report and Pakistani Literature.” Cara Cilano, Department of English, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Michigan State University. 

Friday, February 11, 4:30-6:00 p.m. 

“CSAS Lecture | Market Futures: On Capital and Resistance in India Adda, Davos.” Ravinder Kaur, historian of contemporary India; Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Friday, March 11, 4:30-6:00 p.m. 

“CSAS Lecture | Registration and resistance in nineteenth century Jaffna.” Nira Wickramasinghe, Chair and Professor of Modern South Asian Studies, Leiden University. 

Friday, March 18, 4:30-6:00 p.m. 

“CSAS Lecture | Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: The Ideas of Citizenship and Belonging in Pakistan.” Ali Usman Qasmi Humanities Center, Stanford University. 

Friday, March 25, 4:30-6:00 p.m. 

“CSAS Book Talk | Running Toward Mystery.” The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, President & CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.