Speakers in 2005-2006

Spring 2006

1/31/06
Gulshan Sooklall
The Search for National Identity amid Reinforced Diasporic Links and Reinvented Roots: The Case of Mauritius

2/7/06
Dia Mohan

2/8/06
Susan Wadley

2/28/06
Nandini Sengupta

03/21/06
Sanjukta Mukherjee

3/23/06
Gayatri Reddy

4/11/06
Irfan Habib
Transmission of Science through Translation: A Study of Urdu in 19th Century India

Fall 2005

11/29/05
Prema Kurien
Multiculturalism and the Development of an American Hinduism

11/17/05
Mridula Ramanna
Women and Children's Health: How Far was it a Public Health Concern in Early 20th Century Bombay Presidency?

11/15/05
Deepak Thapa
Monarchy and Maoists in Nepal

11/10/05
Thomas Blom Hansen
The "Great Indian Middle Class" and the Anxieties of Hindu Nationalism

11/2/05
Shekhar Singh
Current Developments in Indian Politics and Government

11/1/05
Viranjini Munasinghe
Theorizing World Culture through the New World: East Indians and Creolization

10/27/05
Sharad Devarajan
Syracuse Symposium on Borders

10/25/05
Subho Basu
The State-Society Relationship and Political Conflicts in Nepal

10/08/05
Mahua Sarkar
Difference in Memory

10/13/05
Roger Jeffery
Education in Rural Northern India

10/6/05
Urvashi Butalia
Victims, Agents or Other? Women and Political Conflict in South Asia
Mira Nair
Syracuse Symposium on Borders

10/4/05
Kaveri Agashe, Manasis Tapikar, and Ramdas Palsule
Kathak Dance

9/27/05
Nancy Powell
U.S. Diplomacy in South Asia and Africa: An Ambassador's Reflections

9/17/05
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
opening remarks of the Ray Smith Symposium
Fouzia Saeed
Snakes and Ladders: Impediments and Opportunities for a Way Forward
Manisha Desai
Transnationalism: The Face of Feminist Politics Post Beijing
Veronica George
Ignored and Displaced: The Silencing of Afghan Women's Rights to Economic Justice
Monisha Behal
Women Suffer Most: Armed Conflict and Women's Rights in North East India

9/16/05
Susan Wadley
opening remarks of the Ray Smith Symposium

9/12/05
Neelima Shukla-Bhatt
Media of Miracles, Miracle of Media: Clairvoyants and Commercials on South Asian TV Networks in the Diaspora

Agrarian Crisis in India? Conference, April 5-6, 2013

The Cornell-Syracuse South Asia Consortium will hold their annual conference at Cornell University on April 5 and 6, 2013. The focus of the conference this year will be on current debates about agricultural in India.

2013 NESSA Event Explores Life in Indian-Occupied Kashmir

On Friday, February 8, 2013, we will host an afternoon focusing on Indian-Occupied Kashmir, the location of one of the world's most long running conflicts. The event will begin at 2:30 pm in 060 Eggers.

Documentary examines Food, Culture and Politics

Stir. Fry. Simmer. raises interesting questions as it addresses issues of food, memory, nostalgia, belonging, family, community, nation, alienation, desire and disgust, politics, prejudice and power…

SU Rising: Bring Awareness to Violence Against Women

On Thursday, Feb. 14, two events at Syracuse University will address the endemic  problem of violence against women, both globally and locally.  A Community Wide Dialogue will be held in the chapel from 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.  From 5:30-6:30 p.m., campus and community members will gather for a candlelight vigil to remember and honor victims and survivors of violence against women.

Memory and Poltics at a Hindu Temple

Anisha Saxena, an art historian and Fulbright Scholar from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, who will give a talk entitled, "Memory, History, Conflict and Claim: Rishabhdeo Temple, Rajasthan" on Tuesday, February 5 at 12:30 pm in 100 Eggers Hall. Her talk will discuss the Rishabhdeo temple in Udaipur, Rajasthan which has had a long history of pluralism.

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