Maxwell School Events Calendar

South Asia Center Events

• Marathi Culture and Conversation Table

  October 15, 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.

• Carmel Christy Workshop | Writing on Caste

  October 10, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Join us as we dissect why caste has become central in academia over the past decade and critically examine the use of caste in scholarship.

• Bangla Culture and Conversation Table

  October 08, 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.

• “one of those figures then died”: South Asian Art, c. 1993

  October 06, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Join Meghaa Parvathy Ballakrishnen for a talk on Vivan Sundaram’s Memorial and postcolonial art after 1993.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  October 03, 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

  October 01, 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.

• The Right to Information and Covid-19 Vaccination: Diagnosing India's Political Economy

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

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Professor Aga argues that struggles around information must be contextualized in the historical sociology of state power and corporate capital.

• Daisy Rockwell | Lecture | What's Art Got to Do with It: Translation as Illustration as Translation

  September 22, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Hall of Languages, 500

  This lecture explores artist translator Daisy Rockwell's use of visualization in her translation of Hindi and Urdu texts, and translation in her art and illustration.

• 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.