Maxwell School Events Calendar

South Asia Center Events

• Governing by Dispossession: Enemy Property and the Afterlives of the 1971 War in Pakistan

  February 10, 2026, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  This talk traces how the category of enemy property migrated from a European imperial wartime technology to a postcolonial mode of governing minorities in South Asia.

• Bangla Culture and Conversation Table

  February 04, 2026, 3:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

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

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  January 28, 2026, 3:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for the first Hindi-Urdu table of the spring semester!

• Tamil Culture and Conversation Table

  January 21, 2026, 3:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for the first Tamil table of the spring semester!

• Bharati Memorial Awardee Presentation

  January 20, 2026, 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  The Bharati Memorial Award was established in 1992 to support graduate students at Syracuse University working on South Asia. Awardee Brooklyn Montgomery will present their work.

• Presentation | South Asia Center Graduate Student Research Grant Awardee

  January 20, 2026, 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  South Asia Center Graduate Student Research Grant awardee Vatya Raina, will present their work.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  January 14, 2026, 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for the first Hindi-Urdu table of the spring semester!

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  December 05, 2025, 12:45 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 352

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

• Tamil Culture and Conversation Table

  December 03, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

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

• Arun Brahmbhatt | Publishing Hindu Devotion in the Twentieth Century

  December 02, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Explore how 20th-century Hindu groups used printed images to shape faith, tracing India’s print rise from the 16th to 19th centuries.

• Marathi Culture and Conversation Table

  November 19, 2025, 1:45 p.m.-3 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 352

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

• After Democracy: Culture and Ideas in the Age of Authoritarianism

  November 14, 2025, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, Global Collaboratory | 060

  Award-winning author Siddhartha Deb will discuss the crisis we face and the ways in which we can respond.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  November 14, 2025, 12:45 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

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

• Bangla Culture and Conversation Table

  November 12, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-1:50 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

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

• Land (Ab)use Planning: Consequences of Failed Planning Models; Food Systems in Global South Cities

  November 11, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Professor Raja explores how acontextual planning frameworks influence urban food systems, especially in cities in contested, occupied and conflict regions.

• Tamil Culture and Conversation Table

  November 05, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

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

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  October 31, 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.

• Ann Grodzins Gold | Errant Youth: Circling the Subcontinent, 1968

  October 28, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Ann Grodzins Gold, professor emerita of religion, will draw from Chapter 6 of her (unpublished) memoir "Gap Years: How Anthropology Saved My Life".

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  October 17, 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.

• Siji Krishnan: ‘The Secret Place’

  October 16, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  In this presentation, Siji will share insights into her painting process and the themes she explores, as reflected in her current exhibition, The Secret Place at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art.