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South Asia Program Event calendar ∙ spring 2021

SPRING 2021

Mondays @ 11:00 am Eastern (New York) Time (*unless otherwise indicated)

All SAP Spring 2021 events are virtual and require registration

February

Monday, February 15 @ 11:00 am EST - Agricultural Transformation in an Evolving Nepal | Andrew McDonald, Soil & Crop Sciences, Cornell University

Monday, February 22 @ 11:00 am EST - Rising Inequality: Oxfam's Journey to Fight Inequality to End Poverty and Injustice - Panel | Amitabh Behar, CEO, Oxfam, India & Max Lawson, Head of Inequality Policy, Oxfam International

March

Monday, March 1 @ 11:00 am EST - Infrastructures of Occupation: Dams, Development, and the Politics of Integration in Kashmir | Mona Bhan, Anthropology, Syracuse University

*Tuesday, March 2 @ 9:30 am EST - A Conversation with Rahul Gandhi | Rahul Gandhi, Member of Parliament, India & Kaushik Basu, Economics, Cornell University

Monday, March 8 @ 11:00 am EST - The Cunning of Capital: Dalit and Queer Aesthetics of Resistance | Nimanthi Perera-Rajasingham, English, Colgate University & Ani Maitra, Film and Media Studies, Colgate University

Wednesday, March 10 @ 4:30 pm EST - From Upstate New York to Foggy Bottom: Lessons from a Career in the U.S. Foreign Service | Laura Stone, Deputy Assistant Secretary for South Asia

Monday, March 15 @ 11:00 am EDT - Figures of Surplus: Waste, Informality, and Caste in Urban Pakistan | Waqas Butt, Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada

*Tuesday, March 30 @ *11:30 am EDT - Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India’s Long Decolonization - Panel | Debashree Mukherjee, South Asian Studies, Columbia University; Dwaipayan Banerjee, Science, Technology, and Society, MIT; Iftikhar Dadi, History of Art, Cornell University; Sanjukta Sunderason, History of Art, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

*Wednesday, March 31 @ 4:30 pm EDT - Hyper Education: Why Good School, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough | Pawan Dhigra, American Studies and Inclusion Officer, Amherst College

April

Monday, April 5 @ *9:00 am EDT - * Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious | Tejaswini Niranjana, Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Monday, April 12 @ 11:00 am EDT - "An Uncharted Modernity": The Architecture of Muzharul Islam | Nurur Rahman Khan, Architect, Tanya Karim N. R. Khan and Associates, Bangladesh

*Friday, April 16 @ 10:30 am EDT - Post-screening Q&A with Director Nila Madhab Panda | Nila Madhab Panda, Indian filmmaker and producer

Monday, April 19 @ 11:00 am EDT - Resistance Through Poetry in Pakistan: Tradition and Personal Journey | Harris Khalique, Poet and Secretary-General, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan

*Wednesday, April 28 @ *4:30 pm EDT- Farmers, Traders, Slaves, and Princes: Retrieving Lives of Eighteenth Century Inhabitants in and around Colombo, Sri Lanka | Dries Lyna, Radboud University, Netherlands

May

Monday, May 3 @ 11:00 am EDT - Kamala Harris and the History of South Asian America | Nico Slate, History, Carnegie Mellon University

*Wednesday, May 5 @ *4:30 pm EDT - Amartya Sen: Attacks on Democracy (Bartels World Affairs Lecture) | Amartya Sen, Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University

Monday, May 10 @ 11:00 am EDT - The Puzzle of Rising Education, Later Marriage, and Dowry Persistence in India: A Demographic Analysis | Alaka Basu, Global Development, Cornell University

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