Maxwell School Events Calendar

South Asia Center Events

• Daisy Rockwell | Workshop| ‘Translation in Teaching and Researching South Asia and Beyond’

  September 22, 2025, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  What role does translation play in teaching and researching different parts of the world? Join International Booker Prize-Winner Daisy Rockwell for a hands-on workshop that explores this question.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  September 19, 2025, 12:45 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 352

  Come learn and practice your Hindi-Urdu conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• NEW* Marathi Culture and Conversation Table

  September 17, 2025, 1:45 p.m.-3 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Come learn and practice your Marathi conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• The Sacred Inscribed: Navigating the World of the Kalpa Sūtra in Jain Religious Life

  September 16, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Professor Corbett Costello explores the Kalpa Sūtra’s rich history, rituals and roles in shaping Jain sacred, social and spiritual life.

• Bangla Culture and Conversation Table

  September 10, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-1:50 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Come learn and practice your Bangla conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• South Asia Center Social and Open Mic Night

  September 09, 2025, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. EDT

  Inn Complete 610 Skytop Road Syracuse, NY, United States

  Please join us at the Inn Complete for a beautiful evening of engaging conversation and entertainment.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  September 05, 2025, 12:45 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Come learn and practice your Hindi-Urdu conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Tamil Culture and Conversation Table

  September 03, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Come learn and practice your Tamil conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Tamil Culture and Conversation Table

  April 23, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 352

  Come learn and practice your Tamil conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Book Talk | Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir

  April 21, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Omer Aijazi explores remote valleys in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, shaped by environmental disasters and the violence of the India/Pakistan border conflict.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  April 18, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Hindi-Urdu conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Inheriting Caste: Minorities Out of Time in Muslim South Asia

  April 15, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Ghazal Asif explores how Pakistan's 2017 census change on caste sparked debates on religious identity, minority recognition and political reimagining.

• Bengali Culture and Conversation Table

  April 09, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Come learn and practice your Bengali conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Book Talk | Claiming Citizenship: Race, Religion, and Political Mobilization among New Americans

  April 08, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  “Claiming Citizenship” explores Indian American political activism, highlighting diverse advocacy groups, generational differences and the influence of social media.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  April 04, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 306B

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Hindi-Urdu conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Theory from the Trenches: Decolonization and the Storm of Subaltern Marxism

  March 25, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Shozab Raza explores a renewed vision of decolonization—one distinct from the efforts led by bureaucrats, professors or social media activists.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  March 21, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 352

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Hindi-Urdu conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Tamil Culture and Conversation Table

  March 19, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 352

  Come learn and practice your Tamil conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Bengali Culture and Conversation Table

  March 05, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Come learn and practice your Bengali conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Book Talk | ‘Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia’

  March 04, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Bringing together Sikh tradition, psychoanalysis and postcolonial thought, “Prophetic Maharaja” provides bracing insights into concepts of sovereignty and the writing of history.