Maxwell School Events Calendar
South Asia Center Events
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Recognition Without Redistribution: Tribal Recognition and Caste Capitalism in India
Eggers Hall, 341
By engaging a language of racialized simplicity, Kandha Adivasis in Odisha express their understanding of indigeneity and entitlements in the development state.
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
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.
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Tamil Culture and Conversation Table
Eggers Hall, 352
Come learn and practice your Tamil conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.
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NEW* Bengali Culture and Conversation Table
Eggers Hall, 352
Come learn and practice your Bengali conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.
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A Subaltern Crematorium of India? Bombay, 1918 – 1953
Eggers Hall, 341
In 1939, Dalit civil disobedience and activism influenced Bombay's first public electric crematorium, symbolizing progress and the fight for equality.
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
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.
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Book Talk | ‘H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars’
Virtual
H-Pop blends Hindutva with popular culture, normalizing Islamophobia and shaping narratives online and offline, as explored in Kunal Purohit’s book.
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Divergence and Alterity: Shrines, Sacrality and Performing Arts in South and Southeast Asia
Eggers Hall, 341 United States
This talk explores syncretic Muslim practices in Java's Jathilan and Sindh's Shah Jo Raag, highlighting sacrality, spirit possession and cultural syncretism.
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Tamil Culture and Conversation Table
Eggers Hall, 352
Come learn and practice your Tamil conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
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.
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2025 Bharati Memorial Awardee Presentations
Eggers Hall, 341
The Bharati Memorial Award was established in 1992 to support graduate students at Syracuse University working on South Asia. Awardee's Kanwaljit Singh and Poonam Agarde will present their work.
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
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.
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
Maxwell Hall, 303
Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Hindi-Urdu conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.
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Tamil Culture and Conversation Table
Eggers Hall, 352
Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Tamil conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.
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Book Talk - ‘Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice’
Eggers Hall, 341
Professor Farhana Sultana will discuss how climate justice fundamentally is about paying attention to how climate change impacts people differently, unevenly and disproportionately.
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
Maxwell Hall, 303
Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Hindi-Urdu conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
Maxwell Hall, 303
Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Hindi-Urdu conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.
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Tamil Culture and Conversation Table
Eggers Hall, 352
Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Tamil conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.
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Rupture, Resistance, and Community: The Crisis of Violence against Women
Showcases Mithila Art from India within a global comparative framework of gender violence and discusses the reparative work needed, collectively and individually, to restore women’s right to dignity.
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Book Talk: ‘Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation’
Eggers Hall, 341
This book interrogates how Kashmir was made “integral” to India through a study of the decade long rule, 1953-1963, of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, the 2nd prime minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir.